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China solar expansion reduces bird biodiversity
A Science paper by researchers from China, Vietnam, and the United States analyzed over 2,000 Chinese counties and found that rapid expansion of…
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Pope urges lawmakers to put humans first in AI policy
Pope Leo XIV addressed the International Catholic Legislators Network in Rome, urging lawmakers to craft AI laws that uplift people and protect human…
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China warns off Philippine planes over Huangyan Island
China's People's Liberation Army said it mobilized naval and air forces to monitor and warn off three Philippine planes that it says illegally…
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Digital Asset and American Idea pilot benefits on Canton network
Digital Asset and the American Idea Foundation plan a RISE pilot to use the Canton Network to combine and distribute state-administered benefits…
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Tether abandons Uruguay bitcoin mines
Tether has walked away from two bitcoin mining facilities in Uruguay after a prolonged dispute with state utility UTE over how much power the sites…
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South Africa police arrest suspects after meth lab discovery
South African police raided a farm near Musina in Limpopo after a two-month probe and arrested five people including two Mexican nationals, two…
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Iran vows devastating response to new US threats
U.S. officials said they will impose unprecedented financial penalties aimed at toppling Iran's leadership, with treasury chief Scott Bessent set to…
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Communities shift to climate-based forestry
Harela and similar tree festivals highlight longstanding cultural respect for trees while raising practical questions about modern afforestation…
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Judge throws out espionage counts against former Google engineer
A federal judge, Vince Chhabria, threw out seven economic espionage convictions against former Google engineer Linwei Ding on the ground that…
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U.S. deports more than 160 people to Haiti
The United States returned 161 people to Haiti on Aug. 20, 2026, in the first deportation since courts cleared a path to end Temporary Protected…
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Study finds Earth microbes could survive in lunar south pole
A new study compared laboratory survivability data for three bacteria and two fungi commonly found on crewed missions with lunar south pole maps and…
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Myanmar military clears areas for Dawei special economic zone
Myanmar's military has deployed hundreds of troops, supported by air and naval forces, to clear territory around the Dawei special economic zone…
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CFTC advisory committee debates prediction market rules
The CFTC held its first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting with more than 30 members from firms including Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, Robinhood…
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Taiwan proposes 18% increase in defense budget
Taiwan's government proposed an 18% rise in defense spending for 2027 that would lift the budget to T$1.1225 trillion, pushing military outlays above…
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Research finds possible military insider trading on Polymarket
A nonprofit analysis of Polymarket International transactions found signs that more than 150 trader wallets may have used inside U.S. military…
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Kurdish forces integrated into Syrian state institutions
Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi announced that the integration of Kurdish military, security and administrative institutions into Syria's state…
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Study finds cytotoxic CD4 T cells abundant in supercentenarians
Researchers analyzed blood from 28 Japanese participants and reported that rare cytotoxic CD4 T cells (CD4 CTLs) increase with extreme age, with…
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Detroit-based drug and money laundering network dismantled
Federal and local authorities uncovered and dismantled a Detroit-based drug trafficking and money laundering organization that operated in five…
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Astromech raises $20 million to build evolution early-warning ai
Astromech, co-founded by Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church, announced $20 million in new funding at a $3.8 billion valuation and plans to…
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Germany identifies suspected 1970 arsonist in Munich Jewish centre attack
Prosecutors in Munich say they have compelling grounds to identify a 25-year-old lone neo-Nazi as the perpetrator of a 13 February 1970 arson that…
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Poland arrests Ukrainian suspect in plot to kill arms official
Poland arrested a Ukrainian man identified as Serhii P. who is accused of planting an improvised explosive device under a car used by a…
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Abu Dhabi authorizes Coinbase tokenized securities operations
Coinbase shares jumped after Abu Dhabi Global Market regulators granted a financial services permission that allows Coinbase to operate a…
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Pakistan cabinet approves defence laws to formalize chief of defence forces
Pakistan's federal cabinet approved two draft laws — the Defence Forces Act, 2026, and amendments to the National Command Authority Act, 2010 — and…
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11 convicted over attempt to smuggle cannabis into UK
Eleven people were convicted for attempting to smuggle 460kg of cannabis, valued at £13.8 million, into the UK via Birmingham Airport after…
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