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I Rode the Skylift (Twice) - Curbed

Tishman Speyer’s vision for a theme park at the top of Rockefeller
Center is complete. The city is weirder for it.

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Court Tells EPA to Consider Fluoride Risk, to Dentists' Dismay
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Per the Federal Judge’s own words, it is now… “PROVEN” “that
water fluoridation at the level of 0.7 mg/L” “presents an
unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment”.

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Can coal survive the solar spread? Major Australian power plant
notches 'extraordinary' first
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At its huge Bayswater power station in the Hunter Valley north of
Sydney, AGL successfully switched off an entire unit before switching
it back on again just five hours later – a feat until recently
considered unthinkable.















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Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the
Making | Quanta Magazine
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One morning last November, the mathematician Hector Pasten finally
solved the problem that had been dogging him for more than a decade by
using a time-tested productivity hack: procrastination.

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The deep-sea 'emergency service' that keeps the internet running
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Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on
subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole
country's internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of the ocean?














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Rebooting The Arsenal of Democracy
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Why has your Big Mac become so much more expensive? - FT
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Governments and business are trying to work out who to blame for
cheapflation














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Qualcomm Said to Wait for US Election to Decide Intel Move - Bloomberg
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Chipmaker wants White House clarity before deciding to pursue

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The best things in lifeand presidential campaignsare free - WSJ
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Supposedly, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But there might
soon be tax-free overtime pay, tax-free Social Security benefits, free
home healthcare and free assistance with newborn expenses.














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Exhausted Gazans defy evacuation orders as Israel presses new
offensive - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79508&nl=daily]
But many Palestinians are staying put, because they are trapped by
fighting around them, exhausted by a year of repeated evacuations or
fearful that nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe.

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Wall Street Banks Notch Surprise Trading Haul on Stocks Bonanza -
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Citi, BofA, Goldman equity traders post record third-quarter














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With Eras Tour book, Taylor Swift offers up a holiday surprise - WSJ
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Taylor Swift is closing the biggest chapter of her career—her
mammoth “Eras Tour," which began in March 2023 and ends in
December—with a 256-page book.The pop singer on Tuesday announced an
Eras Tour retrospective tome, “The Official Eras Tour Book," putting
a bow on what’s become the highest-grossing concert tour of all
time. The new hardcover coffee-table book will include personal
reflections written by Swift and more than 500 images, including
exclusive performance and backstage shots. In addition, Swift is
releasing vinyl and CD editions of “The Tortured Poets Department:
The Anthology," the expanded version of her latest album. Both will be
available exclusively via Target on Nov. 29.The new merchandise comes
as Swift returns to the U.S. to complete the final leg of her Eras
Tour, the first concert trek to generate over $1 billion in ticket
revenue. Having taken a two-month breather after a European run, Swift
performs at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium on Friday, followed by
engagements in New Orleans and Indianapolis, finishing her
tour—after more than a year and a half—in Vancouver on Dec. 8.

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How Donald Trump Earned $605 Million Over The Last Three Years -
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Donald Trump makes more money today than he has in years. Out of
office and back on the campaign trail, the former president earned an
estimated $218 million of operating income last year, roughly double
what he made during his final year in the White House. What changed?
Trump’s golf game, mostly.














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Julius Baer CIO tells rich to brace for private market 'hangover
phase'
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Clients should be wary of the craze for private markets because the
"hangover phase" facing a sector pumped up by low rates and high fees
will leave it lagging the returns of public equities, the CIO at Swiss
private bank Julius Baer (BAER.S), opens new tab said.

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Investors spend a lot of time thinking about risk. But they do it all
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This is one of the main questions financial advisers want to know from
clients. A typical questionnaire asks investors to rate their
investment-risk tolerance on a scale from extremely low to extremely
high.














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Alibaba, Baidu invest in Chinese smart-driving tech company's near
$700 mn IPO - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79508&nl=daily]
Alibaba and search-engine giant Baidu are investing in a nearly $700
million equity offering by a Chinese smart-driving firm, indicating
rising demand for assets in the rapidly growing market for autonomous
driving.

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Secondary sales of private equity stakes set for record levels amid
cash crunch - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79508&nl=daily]
Once-niche market sees surge in activity with investors looking for an
exit from ageing assets as deal activity slumps













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Nuclear-war risks rise again, stoked by global conflicts - WSJ
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The Cold War’s end promised relief from nuclear nightmares.
Long-adversarial governments agreed to eliminate warheads and
collaborated to stop the spread of atomic weapons. That promise is now
slipping away.

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How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the
iPhone era
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When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, a few
neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog
electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code
fascinating. 

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SAP Dethrones ASML as Europes Most Valuable Technology Firm -
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ASMLs market capitalization last lagged behind SAP in 2020

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11 Unusual Facts About the Creepy Spider Some Have No Eyes at All -
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Spiders may give some people the creeps, but theyre also one of the
most fascinating creatures on Earth. With more than 50,000 known
species, these eight-legged arthropods are found all around the world,
and each species has unique characteristics and behaviors.

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6G phone networks could be 9000 times faster than 5G - New Scientist
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Wireless data has been sent at 938 gigabits per second, or more than
9000 times the average speed of a current 5G phone connection. This
would be the equivalent of downloading more than 20 average-length
movies a second. The speed is a record for multiplex data where two or
more signals are mixed.

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Five Possible Bird Flu Cases Found in California - Inc
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California is investigating five possible human cases of bird flu
among dairy farm workers, in addition to the six cases previously
confirmed in the state, the state health department said on Monday.

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Yale tested 6 early-warning algorithms used by health systems. Epic's
AI tool didn't fare well - STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79508&nl=daily]
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, hospitals were desperate
for ways to manage the flood of seriously ill patients. Many turned to
an artificial intelligence algorithm developed by Epic Systems, the
electronic health record company, to predict which patients were most
likely to rapidly deteriorate so they could get the critical care they
needed.

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Billionaire Dick Uihlein Poured Nearly $49 Million Into Pro-Trump PAC,
Filings Show - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79508&nl=daily]
Billionaire and Republican megadonor Dick Uihlein poured nearly $49
million into the conservative Restoration PAC last quarterwhich in
turn made contributions to several pro-Donald Trump groupsmaking him
one of the biggest backers of the former presidents campaign in the
previous three months aside from billionaires Miriam Adelson and Elon
Musk.

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Air conditioning will be major driver of electricity demand, says IEA
- FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79508&nl=daily]
Higher temperatures and rising incomes could boost power demand coming
from home cooling units by 280% by 2050

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The Woman Who Helped Send a Spacecraft to Europa, Jupiters Icy Moon -
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Just after noon on Monday, a SpaceX rocket stood on the same launchpad
that once sent men to the moon. Hurricane Milton had recently ripped
across Florida, whipping up winds of a hundred miles per hour in Cape
Canaveral, but now the skies were a featureless blue. From a
restricted viewing area not far away, Louise Prockter, a graceful
scientist with sandy hair, glanced at a countdown clock and then back
at the rocket, which carried her lifework. Surreal, she said softly.
This just doesnt feel real. There were three minutes until ignition.

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Behind enemy linesHow Kamala Harris campaign is going down on Truth
Social
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The presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris in July
seized the reins of an account on Donald Trump's Truth Social
platformand Newsweek has taken a deep dive into its development.

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SpaceX Launches Its Mega Starship Rocket
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Towering almost 400 feet (121 meters), the empty Starship blasted off
at sunrise from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border. It
arced over the Gulf of Mexico like the four Starships before it that
ended up being destroyed, either soon after liftoff or while ditching
into the sea. The last one in June was the most successful yet,
completing its flight without exploding.

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The EU wants to deport migrants. It needs the help of Syrias Assad.
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Some European Union countries, led by Italy, are pushing to normalize
ties with Syria in order to facilitate deportations of migrants as
mainstream leaders look to replicate anti-immigrant far-right parties
surging popularity across the Continent.

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Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: why discovery took
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Improvements in public health and medicine have lengthened human
survival, but science has yet to overcome ageing.

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Generative AI startups get 40% of all VC investment in cloud amid
ChatGPT buzz
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"Access to capital will profoundly impact the performance of these
models," Ittycheria said in an interview Tuesday on CNBC's "Squawk
Box." He added: "My bet is that over time, you won't have this many
model providers, you may come down to one or two."

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Chestnut Championship in England Is Roiled by Accusation of Cheating
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But this year, the men’s competition has become embroiled in
controversy. The title on Sunday went to David Jakins, 82, who won for
the first time after many decades of taking part in the annual
tradition.

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Middle East crisis live: Lebanese governor decries 'massacre' after
mayor among those killed in Israeli attack
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"While the letter demands Israel rescind evacuation orders, it is time
for the US to enforce these demands immediately rather than issuing
vague deadlines. The US must move beyond warnings and act decisively
to end its complicity in these atrocities," added Raed Jarrar, Dawn's
advocacy director.

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Elon Musk gave $75m to his pro-Trump group in three months
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He also has donated millions to another rightwing group, Building
America’s Future, which has focused on reducing Kamala Harris’s
support among Black voters. The group has also launched advertising
criticising Joe Biden and Harris for their support at the Mexican
border.

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Support automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions
| TechCrunch
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“Our growth strategy reflects what our customers are asking for: an
all-in-one AI platform that delivers across all communication
channels,” he added. “We’ve identified 24 steps of the customer
experience that are ripe for support automation … Each acquisition
adds specific tech and talent to help Capacity become a leading
provider of AI-powered solutions for customer and employee
experience.”

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Storio is helping other businesses unlock more value from solar energy
| TechCrunch
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Several other companies that have been working on on-site battery
management include GridBeyond in the U.K., Stabl in Germany and Stem
in the U.S. As regulation varies from one region to another, Storio
seems well positioned to tackle the French market and potentially
other European countries in the future.

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Our favorite startups from Pear VC's invitational demo day |
TechCrunch
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Why it stood out: Software that adjusts difficulty based on individual
student knowledge has been available for some time. However,
TeachShare’s founders argue that many educational companies still
offer a one-size-fits-all approach to curriculum development. This
forces teachers to spend significant time modifying lesson plans to
suit their specific classrooms. TeachShare aims to assist teachers in
tailoring daily content, ensuring alignment with educational
standards.

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Warren Buffett Is Buying Shares of This Legal Monopoly Hand Over Fist
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Bank of America is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool
company. Sean Williams has positions in Bank of America and Sirius XM.
The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Apple, Bank of
America, and Berkshire Hathaway. The Motley Fool has a disclosure
policy.

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Oil steadies after fall as Middle East uncertainty persists
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Coming up is the latest U.S. oil inventory data. The American
Petroleum Institute's report is due later on Wednesday followed by the
government's figures on Thursday. Both reports are published a day
later than normal following a federal holiday.

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What can Trump deliver on illegal migration? - WSJ
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We know Donald Trump can talk the talk on illegal migration. The
question is what he would be able to deliver in a second term. In 2016
he vowed to wall off the southern border and send the bill to Mexico.
It didn’t happen. Now Mr. Trump is promising to “carry out the
largest domestic deportation operation in American history."

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The Rigor of Angels: Human Nature and the Nature of Reality, from Zeno
to Heisenberg to Borges
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Every month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars
keeping The Marginalian going. For nearly two decades, it has remained
free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no
staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman
labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor
makes your own life more livable in any way, please consider aiding
its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes
all the difference.

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How Americas Richest People Can Access Billions Without Selling Their
Stock
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On Saturday, Elon Musk promised to sell 10% of his Tesla stake after
58% of people voted in a Twitter poll shared by the Tesla CEO.
Yesterday, Musk began to follow through, exercising about 2.15 million
Tesla stock options and selling shares to cover the taxes he owed as a
result. Prior to this week, he has only ever sold Tesla shares
twice—in 2010 and 2016—for pre-tax proceeds of $617 million ($593
million of that went to cover taxes he owed on options). Tesla’s
stock has risen over 13,000% since his last sale, and Musk is now
worth an estimated $281 billion (based on Wednesday’s closing
price). 

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Are Those Stomach Troubles Celiacor Giardia?
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After coming down with an unidentifiable illness in the summer of 2006
while running high adventure trips at a Boy Scout camp in Southern
California, he had been wracked with serious gastrointestinal
dysfunction distress, depression, and brain fog. No matter how much he
ate, he kept losing weight. At one point, he logged his caloric intake
for a college nutrition class and found that he had been eating seven
thousand calories a day, despite looking sickly thin. Around
Thanksgiving of that year, it got so bad Johnson had to go to an
urgent care because he was so dehydrated. 

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Does China welcomeor dreadan Iran-Israel war? - The Economist
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LAST MONTH, as tensions escalated between Iran and Israel, China
helped organise a five-day Chinese film festival in the Iranian
capital, Tehran. It opened with a blockbuster: The Battle at Lake
Changjin. The drama portrays the heroism of Chinese soldiers who
fought against American troops in the Korean war of 1950-53. Strike
one punch to avoid a hundred, Mao Zedong is shown exhorting his
colleagues. Nationalist bloggers in China crowed about the films
showing. Iran cannot sit idly by, even if the United States is behind
Israel! wrote a widely read scribe.

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The Astonishing Lucy Fossil Was Discovered 50 Years Ago. Heres How It
Rewrote the Story of Human Origins - Scientific American
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Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a
fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of
the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.
Fifty years ago one of us (Johanson) made just such a discovery on an
expedition to the Afar region of Ethiopia. On November 24, 1974,
Johanson was out prospecting for fossils of human ancestors with his
graduate student Tom Gray, eyes trained on the ground, when he spotted
a piece of elbow with humanlike anatomy. Glancing upslope, he saw
additional fragments of bone glinting in the noonday sun. In the
weeks, months and years that followed, as the expedition team worked
to recover and analyze all the ancient bones eroding out of that
hillside, it became clear that Johanson had found a remarkable partial
skeleton of a human ancestor who had lived some 3.2 million years ago.
She was assigned to a new species, Australopithecus afarensis, and
given the reference number A.L.288-1, which stands for Afar locality
288, the spot where she, the first hominin fossil, was found. But to
most people, she is known simply by her nickname, Lucy. With the
discovery of Lucy, scientists were forced to reconsider key details of
the human story, from when and where humanity got its start to how the
various extinct members of the human family were related to one
anotherand to us. Her combination of apelike and humanlike traits
suggested her species occupied a key place in the family tree:
ancestral to all later human species, including members of our genus,
Homo.

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Nebraska is the only state with two abortion measures on the ballot.
Confusion is the point.
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The US presidential campaign is in its final weeks and were dedicated
to helping you understand the stakes. In this election cycle, its more
important than ever to provide context beyond the headlines. But
in-depth reporting is costly, so to continue this vital work, we have
an ambitious goal to add 5,000 new members.

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Big Money Flowed to Pro-Trump Groups in the Past Three Months
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the leader of Tesla and X,
has invested $75 million in the super PAC that he created earlier this
year, America PAC, according to the most-anticipated filing of
Tuesday’s deadline. That total was actually a bit less than some
people close to the group thought he might donate; they expected Mr.
Musk to clear $100 million in giving from July to September.

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Trump Escalates Threats to Political Opponents He Deems the 'Enemy'
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With early voting underway in key battlegrounds, the race for the
White House is moving toward Election Day in an extraordinary and
sobering fashion. Mr. Trump has long flirted with, if not openly
endorsed, anti-democratic tendencies with his continued refusal to
accept the results of the 2020 election, embrace of conspiracy
theories of large-scale voter fraud and accusations that the justice
system is being weaponized against him. He has praised leaders
including President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Prime Minister
Viktor Orban of Hungary for being authoritarian strongmen.

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With Jets and Ships, China is Honing Its Ability to Choke Taiwan
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“Beijing is normalizing the use of these large scale military and
coast guard activities under the Lai administration,” said Brian
Hart, a fellow with the China Power Project at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies. “They have made it clear that
if they see things that they perceive as provocative from Taiwan that
they will respond this way.”

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Is Brazil's Supreme Court Saving Democracy or Threatening It?
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Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president at the time, pardoned Mr.
Silveira, but the Supreme Court overruled him. Today, Mr. Silveira
remains in prison. There is no room for appeal past the Supreme Court.

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