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5 days, 14 hours ago

Trump spent years trying to undermine Jack Smith. Now he wants to block special counsel’s final word

CNN

CNN — District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump. The issue of Smith’s final report being made public now moves to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, with Cannon’s order Tuesday preventing Smith or the Justice Department from transmitting the report outside the …

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3 weeks ago

Arizona prosecutors obtain huge trove of Trump allies' communications in election probe

Raw Story

Prosecutors in Arizona working under Attorney General Kris Mayes have gained access to a large cache of emails, phone records, and other messages sent by allies of President-elect Donald Trump in their criminal investigation of the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Politico reported Friday. "Arizona prosecutors are continuing to advance one of the only remaining significant criminal cases …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Arizona prosecutors seek access to trove of Trump allies’ emails, texts

Politico

Arizona prosecutors are continuing to advance one of the only remaining significant criminal cases arising from Trump’s 2020 gambit to stay in power. The fight over the search warrants has been playing out quietly in court documents for the last few weeks and has provided new insights about the case Arizona intends to present against the Trump aides and allies …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Centralising India amidst imperatives of coalitions

Deccan Chronicle

Reversing the inexorable advance towards centralisation of executive power, programmes and election schedules reflected in the Narendra Modi 0.3 government’s rush to get legislative approval for the “One Nation-One Election” blueprint appears impossible. The need to come back again and again to why the losses in Haryana and Maharashtra were damaging to the INDIA bloc’s effectiveness in Parliament and in …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Yoon Suk Yeol | President’s gambit declined

The Hindu

Around half past ten on the night of December 3, Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s President and leader of the conservative People Power Party, appeared on national television to declare “emergency martial law”. Mr. Lee, having lost the Presidential race to Mr. Yoon, bounced back with a seat in the National Assembly where he has emerged as the dominant figure …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

The gambit to preserve a three-generation legacy of affordable rents in Cypress Park

LA Times

For 15 years, it was a ritual that kept Andrés Cortes close to his beloved abuelita. Andres Cortes’ walks with Erika Flores who rents a place at his Cypress Park property. Claire Bernson watches Richard the cat in front of Andres Cortes’ Cypress Park property in Los Angeles. Can you find options to keep housing affordable for longtime residents?’ ” …

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1 month ago

Google's biggest bet is AI for search, investment chief says

The Hindu

Alphabet, the Google parent that has pioneered self-driving cars and quantum computing, is making its biggest bet much closer to home: online search. Applying artificial intelligence to the search business that made Google a household name remains the largest gambit for the company, Ruth Porat, Alphabet's president and chief investment officer, said at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York …

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1 month ago

Ryan Reynolds feels Deadpool's future is uncertain: ‘I have 4 kids and I don't ever want to be an absentee father'

Hindustan Times

Ryan Reynolds' name is synonymous with the popular adult superhero character of Deadpool. Ryan last played it in Shawn Levy's blockbuster buddy Marvel movie Deadpool & Wolverine earlier this year, five years after his turn in David Leitch's Deadpool 2. Channing Tatum is so excited to play Gambit and I'd be so happy to play the fifth banana in his …

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1 month ago

No, President Yoon’s attempted coup was not a desperate act of nostalgia

Al Jazeera

Authoritarianism is still very much in vogue, in Washington and Seoul alike. In the aftermath of the jarring events that rattled South Korea earlier this week, the instant consensus among the instant “experts” who rushed to explain why South Korea’s besieged president, Yoon Suk-yeol, declared martial law, was that the failed gambit amounted to, in effect, a desperate act of …

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1 month ago

World Chess Championship 2024: What was the opening played in Gukesh vs Ding Liren in Round 9?

The Hindu

India’s D Gukesh and defending World Champion China’s Ding Liren played out Catalan Opening in the ninth round of the World Chess Championship Final happening in Singapore on Thursday. GUKESH VS DING, WORLD CHESS-CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 9 LIVE UPDATES In the Catalan Opening, White starts with central pawn push — d4, while Black advances the knight to f6. Gukesh and Ding …

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1 month, 1 week ago

World Chess Championship: What was the opening played in Gukesh vs Ding Liren in Round 8?

The Hindu

India’s D Gukesh and China’s Ding Liren played out an English Opening pattern in Round 8 of the World Chess Championship Final happening in Singapore on Wednesday. With Ding going Nc3 with his second move, the game diverged into English Opening: Reversed Sicilian, Kramnik-Shirov Counterattack. ROUND 8 LIVE UPDATES As per Lichess, the English opening establishes control of the d5 …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Rosen to prominence through chess stream

New Indian Express

On his entry into chess and how he became a streamer: started when I was 7. I was already giving a lot of private lessons to students and this was a way to scale beyond one-on-one coaching and show my love of the game to a much larger audience. On if you knew chess streaming would take of in the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

World Chess Championship: What was the opening played in Gukesh vs Ding Liren in Round 7?

The Hindu

India’s D Gukesh and China’s Ding Liren played out a Neo-Grunfeld Defense: Classical, Original Defense opening pattern in the Round 7 of the World Chess Championship Final happening in Singapore on Tuesday. ROUND 7 LIVE UPDATES The game transitioned from a King’s Indian Defence after both players castled on their sixth moves. Gukesh surprises everyone by playing 1.Nf3 in Game …

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1 month, 1 week ago

India needs to be cautious on Trump threat of tariffs

New Indian Express

US president-elect Donald Trump’s latest beef about BRICS countries trying to create their own common currency to curb the dominance of the dollar is a typical Trumpian response to what looks like a non-issue. Trump has threatened the BRICS countries with 100 per cent duties on goods sold to the US by these countries if they go ahead with the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

‘It Happens a Lot’: The Flaws in India’s Sex Ratio Data and 'Gender Test' Law

The Quint

According to him, legalising sex detection will make it possible to 'tag' pregnancies and maintain records of the sex of each foetus. "The interpretation of the act at every level has been very non-uniform," adds Dr Harsh Mahajan, former national president of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association. "For instance, the punishment for missing form F* for any scan is …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Canadian Trump fans finally got it: ‘America First’ is ‘Canada Last’

Al Jazeera

The US president-elect has threatened tariffs and his Canadian followers are having trouble digesting that. Populist-on-populist “animus” may be a more accurate way to describe how Canada’s two leading populist charlatans have been responding to the threat made by their populist hero – American President-elect Donald Trump – to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods and services exported to …

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1 month, 1 week ago

King’s gambit: What Trump’s threats of big tariffs on imports from China, Canada and Mexico tell us

Firstpost

Trump has little respect for America’s vaunted exceptionalism and does not get the tenets of strategic altruism. Trump’s threat of piling tariff on Canada, Mexico and China – America’s three largest trade partners – and his promise of enacting the executive order on Day 1 of his return to office has sparked a tsunami of reactions. In each case, however, …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

World Chess Championship, Game 3: Gukesh bounces back to beat Ding with Whites, restores parity after third round

The Hindu

The world’s youngest World Championship challenger, India’s D. Gukesh, made a strong comeback, handing defending champion China’s Ding Liren his first loss of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024 in the third round at the Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore on Wednesday. Playing with Whites, Gukesh avenged his first-round loss to Ding in the Queen’s Gambit Declined Game. Gukesh had …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump's Mexico gambit could quickly blow up in his face: experts

Raw Story

President-elect Donald Trump is once again threatening the Mexican government with tariffs in a seeming bid to get the country to do more to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that things could quickly go south for Trump if he goes further and authorizes unilateral military action against drug cartels in …

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Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars

Live Mint

Donald Trump has fired the first shot. Scott Bessent, a former hedge-fund manager who Mr Trump nominated to be treasury secretary on November 22nd, had suggested that Mr Trump’s tariffs could be used as an opening gambit. There is plenty of uncertainty about Mr Trump’s latest salvo, not least whether he would actually be able to implement the tariffs on …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Maharashtra polls: Bruised in LS, how NDA got its groove back

Hindustan Times

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti won 235 of the 288 assembly constituencies in Maharashtra, with the BJP itself winning 132 of the 149 seats it contested for a strike rate of 88.5%; its allies the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party won 57 and 41 of the 81 and 59 seats they contested, respectively. “We studied the caste, party …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Fair game': CNN's Trump ally warns president-elect he'll lose latest gambit

Raw Story

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz should not expect salacious accusations of sexual misconduct and illegal drug use to remain concealed in a House Ethics committee report for long, a conservative warns. President-elect Donald Trump and his attorney general nominee would be foolish to believe House Speaker Mike Johnson can keep the Gaetz report from being leaked to the Senate, at least, …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Column: Green hydrogen or greenwashing? Mojave water scheme takes new twist

LA Times

Cadiz Inc. has been called a “zombie,” a “poison pill” and a scheme to “suck the desert dry” by draining a delicate groundwater aquifer north of Joshua Tree National Park and selling the water to wealthy coastal cities. She worked furiously to block its project, writing in a 2017 opinion piece with state lawmaker Laura Friedman that Cadiz could “destroy …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Navy Admiral to testify to Congress about UFOs tailing US nuclear subs

Daily Mail

A retired rear admiral, who served as the Navy's head oceanographer, will testify to Congress about the risks of UFOs that appear to traverse Earth's seas with impunity. And increasingly, Rear Adm. Gallaudet has also given voice to growing concern among military officials that these strange apparent craft possess 'capabilities beyond our current understanding of science, technology as well as …

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Trump spent years trying to undermine Jack Smith. Now he wants to block special counsel’s final word

Arizona prosecutors obtain huge trove of Trump allies' communications in election probe

Arizona prosecutors seek access to trove of Trump allies’ emails, texts

Shikha Mukerjee | Centralising India amidst imperatives of coalitions

Yoon Suk Yeol | President’s gambit declined

The gambit to preserve a three-generation legacy of affordable rents in Cypress Park

Google's biggest bet is AI for search, investment chief says

Ryan Reynolds feels Deadpool's future is uncertain: ‘I have 4 kids and I don't ever want to be an absentee father'

No, President Yoon’s attempted coup was not a desperate act of nostalgia

World Chess Championship 2024: What was the opening played in Gukesh vs Ding Liren in Round 9?

World Chess Championship: What was the opening played in Gukesh vs Ding Liren in Round 8?

Rosen to prominence through chess stream

World Chess Championship: What was the opening played in Gukesh vs Ding Liren in Round 7?

India needs to be cautious on Trump threat of tariffs

‘It Happens a Lot’: The Flaws in India’s Sex Ratio Data and 'Gender Test' Law

Canadian Trump fans finally got it: ‘America First’ is ‘Canada Last’

King’s gambit: What Trump’s threats of big tariffs on imports from China, Canada and Mexico tell us

World Chess Championship, Game 3: Gukesh bounces back to beat Ding with Whites, restores parity after third round

Trump's Mexico gambit could quickly blow up in his face: experts

Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars

Maharashtra polls: Bruised in LS, how NDA got its groove back

'Fair game': CNN's Trump ally warns president-elect he'll lose latest gambit

Column: Green hydrogen or greenwashing? Mojave water scheme takes new twist

Navy Admiral to testify to Congress about UFOs tailing US nuclear subs