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• Checks and Balance newsletter: How to forecast an election in an unpredictable America
• Rumours of the trade deal's death are greatly exaggerated
• Five Possible Candidates to Lead Japan
• The National Basketball Association is making a big bet on Africa
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• A Crackdown Is Coming for People Hanging On to Student Discounts
• A scientific discovery could lead to leak-free period products
• Eric Freeman hoped to save the Gloucestershire of old
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• New research exposes the role of women in America's slave trade
• Palo Alto Networks CEO apologizes for happy hour display featuring women with lampshades on their heads
• Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
• A battle royal over deep-sea archaeology in the Caribbean
• Your conference-survival handbook
• Death and destruction in a Russian city
• A crisis in prisons gives Britain's new government its first test
• The No.1 reason for success in China? Connections
• Peak Europe turns 25: why June 1999 marked the continent's zenith
• Trees alone will not save the world
• ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy
• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
• South-west England has become a three-way political battleground
• The murder that aroused a nation
• The Mexican president's latest boondoggle officially opens
• Eight charts illustrate 2023's extreme weather
• A new age of sail begins
• Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs
• Like people, elephants call each other by name
• Half Ukraine's power is knocked out; winter is coming
• Will El Mayo's arrest slow the spread of fentanyl?
• How Europe's cities stack up in the cost-of-living index
• Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
• China mulls a bold test of taxation without representation
• The Dutch are getting a half-populist, half-pragmatist government
• If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You'll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud
• Could the Kamala Harris boost put Florida in play for Democrats?
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• Google's Pixel 9 is a sleeker and more powerful flagship built for Gemini AI
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Boeing's New CEO Is Hands On. He's Being Handed a Company in Crisis.
• Jessamine Chan's gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
• Joe Biden leaked Israel's first plan to end the war in Gaza
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Which will grow faster: India or Indonesia?
• Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
• The best films of 2021
• How India's imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
• Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work
• Biden's border order: impractical policy, pragmatic politics
• Criminal gangs are showing their muscle as Mexico's elections loom
• Germany is thinking about bringing back conscription
• Arzopa M1RC Monitor Review: Respectable Budget Specs, but Reality Holds It Back
• Russia-Ukraine war live: Russia ramps up evacuations as Kyiv forces push into Kursk
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• Narendra Modi needs to win over low-income Indians
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• A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
• Meet Gabriel Attal, France's young prime minister
• Americans are fretting over their body odour
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A live-streamed attempted coup in Congo shakes the region
• China's tin-eared approach to the world
• 'It speaks of heritage': South Carolina sweetgrass festival preserves Gullah Geechee culture
• Israel and Hamas are not that far from a ceasefire agreement
• Walmart Earnings, Retail Sales Data in Spotlight for Investors
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Kamala Harris lacks charisma and time
• The EU hits China's carmakers with hefty new tariffs
• How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
• 10 Movies Starring Gena Rowlands, From 'The Notebook' to 'Opening Night'
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• Brandon Johnson, Chicago's leftist mayor, is struggling
• A Russian Chess Player Allegedly Poisoned Her Opponent With Mercury
• Russia is ramping up sabotage across Europe
• Biden's Middle East Playbook Won't Stop a Wider War Forever
• Lenovo Profit Grows Another Quarter, Helped by AI
• Tencent posted a surge in second-quarter profit as a blockbuster game release led a turnaround in its domestic gaming division.
• Freed Israeli hostage Aviva Siegel on Netanyahu's unbearable strategy and waiting for her husband to come home
• Momentum against Joe Biden is mounting again
• Donald Trump is now the oldest candidate to run for president
• Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
• Why China takes young Tibetans from their families
• It's a bird, it's a plane…it's a Chinese flying car
• Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
• Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power
• A short history of Russia and Ukraine
• South Africa's future is in the hands of a divided ANC
• Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine's drones
• The SNP feels the heat in Scotland's election campaign
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• Elon Musk's X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott
• Olympic Boxer's Cyberbullying Lawsuit Names JK Rowling and Elon Musk
• Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
• A Timeline of Nemat Shafik's Presidency at Columbia University
• Noah Lyles' Olympic Run Is the New Normal for Living With Covid
• Google Pixel 9 vs. Samsung Galaxy S24: how the flagship Android phones compare
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• My Criminal Record Somehow Vanished
• How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
• Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
• Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
• XMGoat - Composed of XM Cyber terraform templates that help you learn about common Azure security issues
• SoftBank discussed AI chips tie-up with Intel to rival Nvidia
• Should central bankers argue in public?
• Carbon-dioxide-removal options are multiplying
• China is overhauling its company law
• Will China's ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?
• Dengue fever is surging in Latin America
• Joe Biden is fooling only himself
• Taiwan wants to prove that it is serious about defence
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• What Is Blockchain? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• America Has a Hot-Steel Problem
• Even Xi Jinping is struggling to fix regional inequality
• What Camden reveals about Keir Starmer's mission for government
• Birubala Rabha fought to end the stigmatisation of women
• Why is Thai health care so good?
• William Anders took the photo that kicked off the environmental movement
• 'You feel like you're suffocating': Florida outdoor workers are collapsing in the heat without water and shade
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sources and acknowledgments
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• Columbia University's president resigned, ending an embattled 13-month term during which her campus was the scene of a series of chaotic and sometimes violent protests.
• How to survive a superpower split
• Polestar 3 production is underway in the US
• China is struck by floods and drought—at the same time
• For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
• The temptations of deferred removals
• Japan's strength produces a weak yen
• A short history of Hollywood's poison-pen letters to itself
• What Russia's budget reveals about the war in Ukraine
• The alarming foreign policies of France's hard right and hard left
• Health-care reform is upending the lives of China's doctors
• Flush With Cash, Tether Has Got Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in Its Crosshairs
• Why are British beach huts so expensive?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Wall Street's Trash Contains Buried Treasure
• Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
• Pelé went from poverty to football superstardom
• Hamas talks up a truce, but Israel may still invade Rafah
• A remarkable new era begins in South Africa
• Amazon's $4 Billion Investment in Anthropic Comes Under U.K. Scrutiny
• Mauritania is a beacon of stability in the coup-prone Sahel
• China's new plan for tracking people online
• The Pixel Screenshots app uses AI to scour the screengrabs I can't remember why I saved
• Cancer Rates Are Rising in Young People. Here's What You Need to Know
• American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn
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• Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6: How the best foldables stack up
• Stonehenge's Strangest Rock Came from 500 Miles Away
• A Tale of 2 Marvel/Ultraman Crossovers
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
• Kylian Mbappé scores on debut as Real Madrid beat Atalanta in Uefa Super Cup
• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
• India cannot fix its problems if it pretends they do not exist
• Years of growth forged prosaic politics. Now Panamanians are fed up
• Ceci n'est pas un divorce: why surging separatism won't break Belgium
• Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently
• PS Plus Game Catalog additions for August include The Witcher 3 and Cult of the Lamb
• Richard Masters: Premier League must 'preserve and protect' the competition
• How China and Russia could hobble the internet
• A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends
• Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
• A museum in Rotterdam opens up its collection
• Britain is a home but not a haven for Hong Kongers
• Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
• The world's most liveable cities in 2024
• For the Director of Wicked, There's No Place Like Silicon Valley
• As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
• Why Every Big Tech Company Has Failed to Dethrone Nvidia as King of AI
• The Sycamore Gap tree held a particularly deep place in people's hearts
• KAL's cartoon
• Labour's growth ambitions demand more radicalism on planning
• Would you really die for your country?
• The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
• Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
• How the Philippines is turning the water-cannon on China
• Best Internet Providers in Conroe, Texas
• Young voters strongly favour Joe Biden, but will they turn out?
• India must make much deeper changes if it is to sustain its growth
• Patriotism is replacing purpose in American business
• Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
• Humidifiers vs Dehumidifiers vs Purifiers: Which One Do I Actually Need?
• Does America have enough weapons to support its allies?
• Kung fu gives Africans their kicks
• How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
• Global fashion brands cut Bangladesh orders after turmoil
• Ukraine's desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
• The soldiers of the silicon supply chain are worried
• ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look
• Readers reply: Who invented mathematics?
• Black baseball players of yore get their due, at last
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The cracks in America's ultra-strong labour market
• What Javier Milei could learn from Peru's economic successes
• Can Benetton be patched up?
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Is Ukraine losing the war against Russia?
• The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals
• ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy
• China's Sales of EVs, Hybrids Surpass Conventional Cars in July
• 'Sinkclose' Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections
• Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship
• Politics
• Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• Allianz Lifts Buyback to €1.5 Billion After Strong Second Quarter
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Palmer Luckey's Defense Startup, Anduril, Raises $1.5 Billion to Produce AI-Powered Weapons
• The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration
• JA4+ - Suite Of Network Fingerprinting Standards
• China's young people are rushing to buy gold
• Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance
• Britain's Labour government has declared war on NIMBYs
• Can Big Oil run in reverse?
• A new technique to work out a corpse's time of death
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• Business
• Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
• India's electric-scooter champion goes public
• The 30 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (August 2024)
• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Edna O'Brien's books scandalised Ireland
• AI Is About to Boost Power Bills---Who'll Take Heat for That?
• Saleemul Huq lobbied ceaselessly to make poor countries heard
• The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending
• Rwandan soldiers may outnumber M23 rebels in Congo
• Politics
• What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters
• The best podcasts of 2021
• This week's covers
• Iran and Israel's shadow war explodes into the open
• Why is Brazil a hotspot for financial crime?
• Hard-right parties are entering government across Europe
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Diego Maradona offers central bankers enduring lessons
• How to train your large language model
• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• The Middle East braces for wider war as Iran weighs its response
• Emmanuel Macron's vision of a more muscular Europe is coming true
• Gena Rowlands, star of A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria, dies at 94
• Twitch's New DJ Program Has Flaws, But It's the Best There Is
• NBC Sent 27 Creators to Paris. It Only Needed Snoop and Olympic Athletes
• Matthew Perry changed the way America spoke
• AI Is Heating the Olympic Pool
• What is 5G? The Complete Guide to When, Why, and How
• Biden survives his "big boy" press conference
• Why are so many of the victims in Gaza children?
• Republicans adjust their attacks for their new foe, Kamala Harris
• Physicists are reimagining dark matter
• Brexit is the only big legacy of the 2019-24 parliament
• The pixelated cyberpunk platformer Replaced has been pushed back to 2025
• How to be a good follower
• Google Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Buds Pro 2: Specs, Features, Release Date
• TechCrunch Minute: OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model gets weird
• Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?
• Africa's surprising new age of rail
• Rural Colombia welcomes gangs that mete out vigilante justice
• Mexico's mighty diaspora punches below its weight in elections
• Xi Jinping is trying to love-bomb China's entrepreneurs
• The nationalism of ideas
• The 'Gray Zone' Comes to Russia
• A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• Colombia prepares for a vanilla boom
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• PlayStation Plus Reveals Witcher 3, Cult of the Lamb, More Coming in August
• The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
• How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World
• Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
• Revisited – S1 E2: Nish Kumar, comedian
• Premier League season preview: Arsenal to Ipswich, Football Weekly - podcast
• Przekrój, an iconic Polish magazine, relaunches in America
• The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
• The inheritance awaiting Britain's next government
• Ninja's DualZone air fryer is on sale for $150 right now
• Cleaned Up Shipping Emissions Have Revealed Additional Global Warming
• Now it's Democrats who want the House to investigate X for political censorship
• The semiconductor choke-point
• Lai Ching-te aims to strengthen Taiwan but maintain the status quo
• Why New York scrapped congestion charging
• Business
• Why food is piling up on the edge of Gaza
• A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
• This week's covers
• Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
• Mars Reaches Deal for Cheez-It and Eggo Maker Kellanova
• How Asia's wild west shakes up the modern world
• The Tech World's Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta
• Places ravaged by opioids are giving Republicans the upper hand
• Sources and acknowledgments
• American stocks are consuming global markets
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• China's satellites are improving rapidly. Its army will benefit
• Mountain Bikers Are Rewilding Land by Paying the Government to Do It
• KAL's cartoon
• How Venezuela's Maduro is clinging on to power
• Yurii Kerpatenko refused to bow to Russian orders
• Which Olympic sports is China good at?
• On shame, Liz Truss and the turnip Taliban
• Toriyama Akira was probably Japan's greatest manga master
• The four women who shook up philosophy
• How Rachel Reeves, Britain's probable next chancellor, wants to change the country
• How hotels became targets for British rioters
• The 36 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now (August 2024)
• Some Taiwanese worry that their lawmakers may sell them out to China
• Our Carrie Bradshaw index: where Americans can afford to live solo in 2024
• Japan's mind-bending bento-box economics
• Georgia's government cosies up to Russia
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• How the war split the mafia
• Can anyone save Macy's?
• KAL's cartoon
• Apple finally allows Spotify to display pricing in the EU
• Private firms are driving a revolution in solar power in Africa
• The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia
• Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
• The 2025 Ford Maverick Shows That Hybrid Pickup Trucks Are Going Mainstream
• Plane goes into a spiral descent before crashing in Brazil – video
• America is not ready for a major war, says a bipartisan commission
• The world's next food superpower
• Lauren Boebert's primary is a window into everyday Trumpism
• Is coal the new gold?
• Africa's two most populous economies brave tough reforms
• The Maldives is cosying up to China
• The Trump Campaign's 'Please Shut Up' Phase
• JK Rowling and Elon Musk named in Imane Khelif cyberbullying lawsuit
• How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
• The world is bracing for Donald Trump's possible return
• Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use
• What identity politics will Kamala Harris practise?
• Gina Lollobrigida's ambition was her strength and her weakness
• An assassination attempt against Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico
• David Kirke believed safe sport repressed people's imaginations
• Oslo struggles to solve 'mystery' of Norwegian krone's decline
• Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia's government
• The genocide case Israel faces is more about politics than the law
• A Movie That Understands the 2000s-Internet Generation
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Haiti's transitional government must take office amid gang warfare
• Ancient artistic loot will finally make its way back to Cambodia
• The southern border is Kamala Harris's biggest political liability
• What The Economist thought about solar power
• European gangs are getting better at making their own illegal drugs
• UK general election: live results and analysis
• NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
• British voters care less about tax rises than politicians think
• Britain's army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks
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• Why a Liverpool imam reached out to a far-right rally outside his mosque – video
• After a dramatic week in Gaza, where does the war stand?
• America's Asian allies are trying to Trump-proof their policies
• Thailand legalises same-sex marriage
• Israel's northern border is ablaze
• Mexico's president and his family are fighting claims of corruption
• Introducing Analysing Africa, our latest newsletter
• Generation K: Keir Starmer's cohort of Labour candidates
• Market Volatility Is Back. Will It Last?
• The return of the Farage ratchet
• Kamala Harris economic plan to focus on groceries, housing and healthcare
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Will services make the world rich?
• Waiting for a new Fitbit smartwatch? Google says that's the Pixel Watch 3
• Colds Bring Lots of Snot—But Just How Much?
• EvilSlackbot - A Slack Bot Phishing Framework For Red Teaming Exercises
• A shock election result in India humbles Narendra Modi
• LVMH is splurging on the Olympics
• NBC's Olympics Broadcast Isn't Just Addictive. It's a New Era of Streaming
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Does the vice-president matter in an election?
• China's manufacturers are going broke
• Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier still
• Stevie Martin: Clout review – ingenious and silly tech-comedy
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• Joan Didion's radical curiosity
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Politics
• Euro Call Options in Demand Amid U.S. Rate-Cut Prospects
• Narendra Modi's secret weapon: India's diaspora
• 'This year has been dead': where have Britain's insects gone?
• Donors are already mulling a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
• Can hope beat hatred in Bangladesh?
• What next after Ukraine's shock invasion of Russia?
• Maya Widmaier-Picasso helped to revive her father's creativity
• Video: insights from the author
• The fight over meat-free meat pits Europe's traditionalists against foodie innovators
• Starbucks hopes new CEO will bring ingredients of Chipotle's success
• Halloween Town Comes to Life With This Delightful 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Lego Set
• Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine
• Software is now as important as hardware in cars
• Algonquin Power to Sell Renewable Energy Business for $2.5 Billion
• Israeli aircraft buzz Beirut as the drums of war bang loud
• How did pollsters do in predicting the British election?
• Wines That Entertain as Well as Impress
• Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
• Under Joe Biden, America struggles to reassert itself in Africa
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Islamic State's branch in Afghanistan is at war with the world
• Europe can't decide how to unplug from China
• Colombia's first avowedly left-wing president is mired in scandal
• The meaning of Donald Trump's Supreme Court victory
• Blighty newsletter: Will Britain have more racist riots?
• Can Home Depot's "amazing era" return?
• Has Twitter (now X) become more right-wing?
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
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• New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
• To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it
• A toast to the possible end of Chinese tariffs on Australian wine
• The best memes of 2021
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• The Republicans' policy platform previews the coming campaign
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• Five charts compare Democrats and Republicans on job creation
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• Under Lula, Brazil is walking on the financial wild side
• The last scraps of the Haitian state are evaporating
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• The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia's Profit Falls Amid Competition
• Kamala Harris carries the torch, and the burden, of Bidenomics
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• Why 2024 could become the hottest year on record
• How the financial system would respond to a superpower war
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• What if China and India became friends?
• What campus protesters get wrong about divestment
• Three reasons why oil prices are remarkably stable
• The Trump Campaign Endorses a Racist Theory
• ExxonMobil rediscovers its swagger
• Corruption is surging across Latin America
• The stockmarket rout may not be over
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie Exploits
• Russia sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 years on bogus spying charges
• A Kenyan-led security mission finally starts to arrive in Haiti
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• Hunter Biden's criminal conviction is good for nobody politically
• How Chinese goods dodge American tariffs
• Britain's government is mapping underground cables and pipes
• For a second time Chileans reject a new constitution. Now what?
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• Hong Kong passes a security law that its masters scarcely need
• Topless men: should they be banned if they're not at the pool or the beach?
• Why migration is in such a mess once more
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• Science is Solving Iceland's Dangerous Volcanic Mystery
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• How Amos Vogel changed American film culture
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• This week's covers
• How a CEO knows when to quit
• Helen Edwards Helped Create a Particle Smasher to Probe the Mysteries of Atoms
• The Liberal Democrats could become the main opposition in Britain
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• Gaza Cease-Fire Talks: What Has Happened and Where Things Stand
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• Musk's 'fun' AI image chatbot serves up Nazi Mickey Mouse and Taylor Swift deepfakes
• Gamergate's Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet
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• Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in our nationwide poll tracker
• How Hackers Extracted the 'Keys to the Kingdom' to Clone HID Keycards
• The Decline of America's Public Pools
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• Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• Can China's consumers save its economy?
• This Gargantuan Lab Simulates Blasting Satellites Into Space
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• Researchers Debate Theory of Pyramids' Construction, Astronauts Are Stuck in Space, and Olympians Swim the Seine
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• Where democracy is most at risk
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
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• How to Watch Billie Eilish and Snoop Dogg at the Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony
• The world's insatiable appetite for Canada's maple syrup
• Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
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• Sources and acknowledgments
• The cost of Britain's cast of ex-prime ministers is mounting
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• Columbia University president resigns after pressure over student Gaza protests
• The Controversial Kids Online Safety Act Faces an Uncertain Future
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• Elon Musk's X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott
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• Gold Futures Rise, Recouping Some Losses on Weaker Dollar
• China is sending escapers back to North Korea
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• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• Thirty years after Rwanda, genocide is still a problem from hell
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• The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
• The tiny statelet of Transnistria is squeezed on all sides
• Google's Pixel 9 series won't launch with Android 15
• Humiliated by Azerbaijan, Armenia tacks towards the West
• Is a Palestinian state a fantasy?
• Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world's
• The new front in China's cyber campaign against America
• The EU's best-laid plans for expansion are clashing with reality
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine
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• How Ukrainian farmers are using the cover of war to escape taxes
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• The dwindling of the Panama Canal boosts rival trade routes
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