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Families of boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy were
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under threat that tariffs need to protect," she said. "We hope there
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Hospitals boost their profit expectations for 2025 as health insurers
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Trump's astonishing battering of Brazil - The Economist (No paywall)
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Rarely since the end of the cold war has the United States interfered
so deeply with a Latin American country. On July 9th Donald Trump
pledged tariffs of 50% on Brazilian exports, citing a witch hunt
against Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right former president, who is soon
due to stand trial for allegedly plotting a coup, a charge he denies.
On July 15th Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative,
started investigating Brazils trade practices. On July 18th the US
State Department revoked the visas of most Brazilian Supreme Court
judges and other officials connected to Mr Bolsonaros prosecution.
Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, has said he wants to use the
Global Magnitsky Act to place sanctions on Alexandre de Moraes, a
prominent justice, an action usually reserved for dictators and
warlords.

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China military uses AI to track rapidly increasing UFOs
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To the People's Liberation Army they are 'unidentified air conditions'
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Graham Thorpe's care had 'failings' in last months of his life, says
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We Just Started Listening to the Universe-Now Impending Budget Cuts
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Long ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes danced around each
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The French president, expressing a moral obligation to address
suffering in Gaza, made clear he had lost patience with the United
States and Israel. The question is what effect he will have.

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Trump targets supervised consumption of drugs and harm reduction in
executive order
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“The Court’s opinion recognizes what we have always believed: The
law safeguards our mission to preserve human life in an unprecedented
overdose crisis,” Safehouse said in a statement. 

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Pharmalittle: We're watching Europe moving to reject Elevidys, a FDA
panel on SSRI risks, and more
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reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She
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Plans to test prior authorization in traditional Medicare are deeply
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Berwick is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services. He is a senior fellow for health policy and Ducas
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European regulators endorse Lilly's Alzheimer's treatment for certain
patients
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But following an appeal from Lilly, the committee issued a limited
recommendation Friday, saying Kisunla should be authorized for
patients whose genetic profile leaves them at lower risk for ARIA.

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Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Administration's Challenge of Illinois
Sanctuary Measures
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The Justice Department had sued the leaders of Illinois, Chicago and
Cook County over policies that limit cooperation with federal
immigration officials.

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Trump Redefines the Washington Scandal - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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If there is one Washington art that Donald Trump has perfected, it is
surely that of scandal management. After two impeachments, four
indictments, and more head-exploding controversies than anyone could
possibly count, his playbook of denial, deflection, and distraction is
achingly familiarthough it should be noted that, given how much of
what he says and does is scandalous, the label has generally lost all
meaning when applied to his Presidency. In his second term, Trump now
benefits from the presumption of his own survival from even the most
politically debilitating of stories. And how could he not? A man who
can win relection after inciting a mob of supporters to storm the U.S.
Capitol is hardly going to be brought down by more quotidian offenses
like monetizing the White House for his own purposes or openly defying
court orders. All of which raises a definitional question: Is it still
a scandal if there is no possibility that the accused will face any
meaningful consequences?

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Trump Says 50-50 Odds of Trade Deal With European Union - Bloomberg
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President Donald Trump put the odds of striking a trade deal with
Europe to reduce the tariff rate on their imports at 50-50, even as
diplomats from the trading bloc have expressed optimism in recent days
that an agreement could be near.

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Is the Bread in Europe Better for You?
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If you've noticed that certain baked goods are more tolerable abroad,
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What it means to be both Black and white, and neither, in a polarized
United States.

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Emmanuel Macron says France will recognise Palestinian state in
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Israel calls planned move a 'betrayal' as French president pushes to
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Thousands of retained firefighters owed pension payments, union says
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A spokesperson for the National Fire Chiefs Council, which represents
fire and rescue service, said on-call firefighters play a "critical
role" in the UK's emergency response and strongly encouraged anyone
who thinks they may be eligible for payments to contact their pensions
administrator.

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Bipartisan Pair of House Members to Meet With Sheinbaum in Mexico
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The visit by Representatives Don Bacon of Nebraska and Ro Khanna of
California is aimed at tamping down tensions stoked by President Trump
on trade and immigration.

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The AI Boom Is Expanding Google's Dominance - Intelligencer (No
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Google became popular by offering a tool that was better than others
at collecting links, ranking them, and making them searchable. It has
made many billions of dollars by sending browsers this way and that,
providing value to searchers and advertisers and website operators and
taking tolls along the way. It built an advertising business around
Search and an empire around that business.

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Trump Shouldnt Settle for European Spending Pledges - Foreign Policy
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More steps are needed to make good on his administration's pledge to
shift the defense burden to Europe.

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Trump eyes involuntary commitment to end homelessness
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O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that
govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she
worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her story
debunking a bogus theory about transgender kids was nominated for a
2024 GLAAD Media Award. You can reach Rose on Signal at
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After Ghislaine Maxwell Interview, Concerns Mount Over Possibility of
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President Trump, asked whether he would consider pardoning her, said,
“I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought
about.”

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How can you know if an AI is plotting against you?
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And in the past year, that word has been cropping up more and more
often in AI research. Experts have warned that current AI systems are
capable of carrying out scheming, deception, pretending, and faking
alignment meaning, they act like theyre obeying the goals that humans
set for them, when really, theyre bent on carrying out their own
secret goals.

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Ex-Sun editor David Dinsmore to take up government communications role
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Andy Coulson, the former editor of the now defunct News of the World,
worked for David Cameron in opposition and then in Downing Street,
before resigning as director of communications in 2011 over the
phone-hacking scandal.

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How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate
programs - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
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Nonprofits are striving to preserve a US effort to modernize
greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump
administrations dismantling of federal programs will obscure the
nations contributions to climate change.

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Trump deflects Epstein questions as he arrives in Scotland for trade
talks
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A House committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the justice
department for the Epstein investigation files, with three Republicans
voting alongside Democratic members. Democratic representative Ro
Khanna of California has said he will subpoena Epstein’s estate to
hand over the book.

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Israel trying to deflect blame for widespread starvation in Gaza
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All of which has injected a new sense of urgency into the catastrophe
in Gaza as UN agencies warned that they were on the brink of running
out of specialised food needed to save the lives of severely
malnourished children.

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Devon and Cornwall crime commissioner sorry for multiple bodies claim
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Hernandez said on Friday evening: “In trying to be helpful I
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however, I was not fully up to date with the facts of the
investigation.

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Can Airbnb redefine travel again? - WSJ (No paywall)
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Airbnb built a travel empire by leveraging something the industry had
long overlooked: peoples homes. Its early success came from unlocking
a latent supply of spare bedrooms and vacation houses.

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US man arrested for allegedly using dating apps to scam matches out of
$2m
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If found guilty, Lloyd would face a maximum sentence of 20 years in
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transaction count. According to prosecutors, the FBI is investigating
Lloyd as well.

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Macron plan to recognise Palestine puts pressure on Starmer to choose
a course
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“How many years can you talk about a two-state solution and only
recognise one of them?” said Baskin. “There’s a need to break
out of this duplicity of intentions and actions, so the French making
that step is good. It needs to be done along with other G7 members,
and members of the European Union that haven’t yet done it. It’s
important because it makes a statement – that the world is committed
to a solution to this conflict.”

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Von der Leyen to meet Trump in Scotland as EU and US close in on trade
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Before boarding Air Force One, Trump claimed he would have sealed
deals with nearly all of the 60 countries he threatened with punitive
tariffs by next Friday, his self-imposed deadline for agreements.

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Engadget Podcast: A taste of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 and more
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favorite podcast platform. We're pretty much everywhere. If you'd like
to interact with our hosts live, make sure to join us on Thursday
mornings on the Engadget YouTube channel for the livestream of this
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Riverdance star Michael Flatley to seek Irish presidency nomination
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Flatley has remained in the public eye since retiring as a dancer.
Critics derided his 2022 spy thriller film, Blackbird, as a vanity
project. In 2023, he announced plans for a “no holds barred”
biopic series, titled Dancelord, that promised to show the “epic
sweep” of a life that has reached “a plane beyond mere rock
stardom”.

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Cabinet ministers and third of MPs call on Starmer to recognise state
of Palestine
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The UN secretary general, António Guterres, accused the international
community of sticking its head in the sand as Palestinians starved in
Gaza, lambasting what he called a “lack of humanity”. “This is
not just a humanitarian crisis. It is a moral crisis that challenges
the global conscience,” he said on Friday.

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Severe malnutrition in under-5s has tripled at Gaza City clinic,
charity reports
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Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, said: “What we have presented
– with full awareness and understanding of the complexity of the
situation – we believe could lead to a deal if the enemy had the
will to reach one.”

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Fewer resident doctors thought to have gone on strike than in last
year's NHS stoppage
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"Most people do not support these strikes. They know they will cause
real damage ⦠These strikes threaten to turn back the clock on
progress we have made in rebuilding the NHS over the last year,
choking off the recovery," the prime minister said.

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Lobbyist breaches go unsanctioned as critics call for Australia's
rules to be strengthened
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required this information to be updated every three months. Lobbyists
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Two top Noaa officials linked to Trump's 'Sharpiegate' incident put on
leave
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Spinrad echoed the concerns, pointing at the series of catastrophes
that have already unfolded while Noaa was at reduced capacity -
challenges to forecasting extreme weather, including the devastating
floods in Texas that killed at least 135 people, hamstrung efforts to
continue understanding and adapting to the climate crisis, and the
slide toward commercialization and politicization of the work.

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France's top court annuls arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad
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In 2020, a report by the UN-aligned body that oversees chemical
weapons use accused Syria of using sarin gas on the battlefield. The
report was hailed by rights groups as a landmark moment with
implications for war crimes investigations.

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Tea app suffers breach, exposing thousands of user images
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Its Play Store listing highlights a reverse phone number lookup. It
has sections for men's real names, ages, addresses, social profiles
and relationship statuses. Other features include a reverse image
search and background checks to help women "get the tea on your date."
Users can poll others about whether they should date new matches.

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Trump says it's 'no time to be talking about pardons' for Ghislaine
Maxwell as he lands in Scotland ahead of UK and EU talks - live
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David Oscar Markus, Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney declined to say
whether Donald Trump was the focus of any of the Department of
Justice's questions during the interviewing sessions that have taken
place behind closed doors at the federal courthouse in Tallahassee
over the last two days.

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NSW real estate agents threaten renters with fees if they are not home
for tradespeople - but legally they don't have to be
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"Illegal fees and charges remain an issue in the sector," Jones said.
"Since January, the Rental Taskforce has overseen refunds of $165,303
to renters who were charged unlawful fees."

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Troubled New Orleans jail apologizes after releasing detainee by
mistake
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Hutson has said she plans to run for re-election in October despite a
recent poll which estimated her public approval rating was at a dismal
18%. Challengers who have signed up to run against her are also
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White House releases $5.5bn in education funds it had withheld
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Similarly, the School Superintendents Association hailed the decision,
with its executive director, David Schuler, saying: “We are pleased
public schools will receive the funding as appropriated by Congress
for the 2025-26 school year.

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Goodbye gentle parenting, hello 'f-around and find out' - WSJ (No
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Carla Dillon tried lots of ways to discipline her rambunctious
13-year-old, including making him write the same contrite sentence 100
times. But when he sprayed her with a water gun at a campground after
she asked him not to, she saw only one option:

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