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Odds of Bank of England interest rate cut strengthen after inflation falls to 2.8%

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Rachel Reeves does reasonable job of justifying fiscal prudence but welfare cuts cast shadow

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The Atlantic published what it says are Yemen “attack plans” shared by senior US officials in Trump's administration, inlcuding Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, in a group chat that inadvertently included the magazine’s editor. 🟠 Follow our LIVE coverages: aje.io/5no6be

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Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to end vaccine funding in developing countries, documents obtained by The New York Times show. Some HIV and TB aid will be kept. nyti.ms/4iPA9as

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If there is one person on the Supreme Court to whom President Trump owes a debt of gratitude for empowering his disruptive, smash-and-grab second term, it is Chief Justice John Roberts, @cristianfarias.com writes.

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President Trump said his administration was considering whether to establish a compensation fund for pardoned rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, assaulted police and threatened to hang his vice president to stop certification of the election that he lost to Joe Biden.

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Bolsonaro must stand trial over alleged coup attempt, Brazil’s top court rules

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Exclusive: The best-known member of Elon Musk's US DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters reut.rs/4l2R9eL 1/5 @raphae.li

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Excerpts of a Signal chat published Monday by The Atlantic provide a rare and revealing look at the private conversations of top Trump administration officials as they weighed plans for U.S. strikes in Yemen. See excerpts from the group chat. nyti.ms/4iIBq2Z

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🤣 🇭🇺 Hungarian Foreign Minister arrives in Moscow for 13th time since beginning of full-scale invasion, raising suspicions in EU

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The 2024 election was characterized online by its brain-rot memes, nonsensical collisions of imagery that produced a lot of noise but little coherent impact. “Now the brain rot persists, but the underlying subject matter is more dire,” @chaykak.bsky.social writes.

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Indian stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra faces police scrutiny for a performance seen to have criticized a key politician and ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fanning concerns about the limits of free speech in the world’s largest democracy reut.rs/3FGbMNE

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Breaking News: Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s ex-president, will be tried on charges of attempting a coup in 2022, the country’s top court ruled.

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Banning of teacher-training students from Boat Race may be unlawful, lawyers say

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For @newyorker.com: I wrote a crash course on how John Roberts empowered the current destruction and lawlessness in Washington. There’s a perception this began with the immunity ruling, but he has long been pushing the idea of an unrestrained, unchecked presidency. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld federal restrictions aimed at curbing access to kits that can be easily assembled into homemade, nearly untraceable firearms, known as ghost guns. nyti.ms/3DTNGhK

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As Elon Musk and his allied groups pour more than $20 million to try to elect a conservative to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, his car company, Tesla, is suing the state over a law restricting vehicle sales.

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US Democrats sought to hold Trump administration officials accountable for discussing sensitive attack plans on a commercial messaging app, arguing that lives could have been lost if the information had fallen into the wrong hands reut.rs/4hOamho

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Senator Chuck Schumer joined other top Democrats in calling on Pam Bondi, the attorney general, to conduct an investigation into the sensitive military information Trump administration leaders shared on a text chain that included a journalist.

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💢 Republicans urge Trump to resume military and intelligence aid to Ukraine

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Orange resident Joseph Sanberg, an anti-poverty activist and co-founder of Aspiration Partners Inc., was taken into custody for his alleged role in bilking investors out of at least $145 million, according to the Justice Department.

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President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Just weeks into his term, economic forecasts have deteriorated, reflecting the upheaval from federal layoffs, tariff moves and immigration roundups. nyti.ms/43sbBz5

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A US agency halted the terminations of six federal government employees who US President Donald Trump's administration targeted in its mass firings of probationary workers reut.rs/41wKFNv

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⚔️ 3 years of full-scale war. 3 years of Ukrainska Pravda’s English edition bringing the truth to the world. We’ve worked tirelessly since 24 Feb 2022 to keep Ukraine’s voice heard. If not now, then when? Support us on Patreon!

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President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok for at least 75 days, even though the law took effect on Sunday and it is unclear that such a move could override it. nyti.ms/4h8ab0P

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President Trump's move to pardon nearly all of the 1,600 rioters charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 would effectively undo years of efforts by federal investigators to seek accountability for the mob assault on the peaceful transfer of power after Trump's loss in the 2020 election.

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President Trump moved quickly on Monday to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic. nyti.ms/4hilymo

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Trump's supporters praised his swift executive actions upon his return to the White House, while critics derided his planned mass deportations and a rollback in diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Others said they tuned out the inauguration reut.rs/3DZVONk

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Trump’s punishment for his crimes? None | Moira Donegan

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BREAKING: New York's top court rejected US President-elect Donald Trump's request to halt his sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, court papers showed reut.rs/4jbIrJY

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The visceral horror of a sex trafficking scandal that rocked Britain a decade ago gives Elon Musk’s “demagogic attacks a sheen of righteousness,” writes @michellegoldberg.bsky.social. “But much of what he’s saying about the current government’s culpability is either distorted or flatly untrue."

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital with no sign of army deployments reut.rs/3ORxDTn

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Forever guilty on all counts.

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US President Joe Biden changed his mind about pardoning his son Hunter because 'circumstances have changed,' the White House said reut.rs/4f8uppg

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Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption.. And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail Let's see. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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During the campaign, Donald Trump swore he had “nothing to do with” Project 2025. Now, as president-elect, Trump has filled his administration with people who have ties to the right-wing policy blueprint that would overhaul the federal government. nyti.ms/3BhAxxA

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Can you afford to release your album on vinyl? I work for a small vinyl pressing plant, our customers are mostly independent artists doing small-run pressings. My job is advising people on how it all works. Here's a short thread outlining the very basic costs of pressing and releasing an album:

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

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Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

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Terrible news today: This year, one-third of coral cover has been destroyed in two northern sections of the Great Barrier reef due to anthropogenic heating. Results for the southern sections (which were even hotter) have not been officially released. www.aims.gov.au/information-...

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