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Tom Lasseter
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Reading: Modi’s ‘True Friend’ Trump Deals India Another Blow With Tariff Threats www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...
Modi’s ‘True Friend’ Trump Deals India Another Blow With Tariff Threats
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July 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reading: Modi’s ‘True Friend’ Trump Deals India Another Blow With Tariff Threats www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...
Remember the TikTok Ban? Does Anyone? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o... Author of this essay: general counsel of the National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020
Opinion | Remember the TikTok Ban? Does Anyone?
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July 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Remember the TikTok Ban? Does Anyone? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o... Author of this essay: general counsel of the National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020
Pentagon suspends participation in think tank events politi.co/46XLLVu
Pentagon suspends participation in think tank events
The move comes a week after the Defense Department pulled out of the Aspen Security Forum due to “the evil of globalism.”
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July 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Pentagon suspends participation in think tank events politi.co/46XLLVu
Kentucky public media stations to lose millions after Congressional rescission vote www.lpm.org/news/2025-07...
July 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Kentucky public media stations to lose millions after Congressional rescission vote www.lpm.org/news/2025-07...
How to Hide a Chinese Empire | China Books Review chinabooksreview.com/2025/06/26/c...
How to Hide a Chinese Empire | China Books Review
After millennia of imperial history, China today has distanced itself from the concept of empire. But the new forms of Chinese imperium are more subtle than territorial conquest.
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July 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
How to Hide a Chinese Empire | China Books Review chinabooksreview.com/2025/06/26/c...
Air India crash report shows pilot confusion over engine switch movement
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India finds engine switch movement in fatal Air India crash, no immediate action for Boeing or GE
A preliminary report into the Air India crash that killed 260 people last month showed three seconds after taking off, the plane's engines fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff, starving the engines of fuel.
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July 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Air India crash report shows pilot confusion over engine switch movement
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State Department starts firing more than 1,350 workers www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... Many members of a State Department office overseeing the U.S. resettlement of Afghans who worked for the U.S. government during the 20-year war have also been terminated as part of the overhaul.
State Department says it will fire more than 1,350 workers in Trump's shake-up of diplomatic corps
The U.S. State Department will start firing more than 1,350 U.S-based employees on Friday as the administration of President Donald Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its U.S. diplomatic corps, a move critics say will undermine U.S. interest abroad.
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July 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
State Department starts firing more than 1,350 workers www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... Many members of a State Department office overseeing the U.S. resettlement of Afghans who worked for the U.S. government during the 20-year war have also been terminated as part of the overhaul.
Love this. www.espn.com.au/mlb/story/_/...
How CC Sabathia's idea led to 2025 Home Run Derby uniforms honoring Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth
Sabathia suggested an All-Star week tribute to Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron due to dates reflecting Ruth's long-standing home run record and Aaron's homer that broke it.
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July 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Love this. www.espn.com.au/mlb/story/_/...
Joyful Parisians take a historic plunge into the Seine after 100 years nbcnews.com/world/europe... ❤️ “This is so chic, to swim in the Seine, next to Île Saint-Louis”
Joyful Parisians take a historic plunge into the Seine after 100 years
The return to swimming follows a 1.4 billion euro ($1.5 billion) cleanup project tied to last year’s Olympics. Officials now say the Seine meets European water quality standards on most days.
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July 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Joyful Parisians take a historic plunge into the Seine after 100 years nbcnews.com/world/europe... ❤️ “This is so chic, to swim in the Seine, next to Île Saint-Louis”
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June 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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A journalist was killed while writing a book on the Amazon. Here's how friends completed his work apnews.com/article/amaz...
A journalist was killed while writing a book on the Amazon. Here's how friends completed his work
British journalist Dom Phillips had been working for years on a book about saving the Amazon when he was killed in the region by fishermen in 2022.
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May 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A journalist was killed while writing a book on the Amazon. Here's how friends completed his work apnews.com/article/amaz...
Reading: A presidential agenda, pro-industry proposals and a probe — documents reveal Big Tobacco’s influence in the Philippines and on the international stage.
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How industry capture of Filipino officials helped deadlock global tobacco control negotiations
A presidential agenda, pro-industry proposals and a probe — documents reveal Big Tobacco’s influence in the Philippines and on the international stage.
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May 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reading: A presidential agenda, pro-industry proposals and a probe — documents reveal Big Tobacco’s influence in the Philippines and on the international stage.
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'Asian crisis in reverse' as currencies soar on the dollar www.reuters.com/world/china/... The moves sound a warning for the dollar because they suggest money is moving into Asia at scale and that a key pillar of dollar support is wobbling.
'Asian crisis in reverse' as currencies soar on the dollar
A wave of dollar selling in Asia is an ominous sign for the greenback as the world's export powerhouse starts to question a decades-long trend of investing its big trade surpluses in U.S. assets.
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May 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
'Asian crisis in reverse' as currencies soar on the dollar www.reuters.com/world/china/... The moves sound a warning for the dollar because they suggest money is moving into Asia at scale and that a key pillar of dollar support is wobbling.
Vance warns of 'very dark time' without close US-India ties www.reuters.com/world/india/...
Vance seeks closer US-India ties, warns of 'dark time' otherwise
The United States is looking to sell more energy and defence equipment to India, Vice President JD Vance said on a visit to the country, adding that ties between the two countries will shape the century.
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April 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Vance warns of 'very dark time' without close US-India ties www.reuters.com/world/india/...
Sharp US bond selloff revives flashbacks of COVID-era 'dash-for-cash' www.reuters.com/markets/rate...
Sharp US bond selloff revives flashbacks of COVID-era 'dash-for-cash'
A violent U.S. Treasury selloff, evoking the COVID-era "dash for cash," has reignited fears of fragility in the world’s biggest bond market.
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April 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Sharp US bond selloff revives flashbacks of COVID-era 'dash-for-cash' www.reuters.com/markets/rate...
In times of market panic investors tend to rush to the safety of the dollar, but when stocks swooned in response to U.S. tariffs this week, they ran away from it. Investors say it's a sign that the greenback’s global standing may be eroding. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
Next up for markets: A crisis of confidence in the dollar
In times of market panic investors tend to rush to the safety of the dollar, but when stocks swooned in response to U.S. tariffs this week, they ran away from it. Investors say it's a sign that the greenback’s global standing may be eroding.
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April 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In times of market panic investors tend to rush to the safety of the dollar, but when stocks swooned in response to U.S. tariffs this week, they ran away from it. Investors say it's a sign that the greenback’s global standing may be eroding. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
BYD unveils new super-charging EV tech, to build charging network in China reuters.com/business/aut... WOW: capable of peak charging speeds of 1,000 kilowatts, enabling cars that use it to travel 249 miles on a 5-minute charge, founder Wang Chuanfu said
BYD unveils new super-charging EV tech, to build charging network in China
BYD on Monday unveiled a new platform for electric vehicles (EVs) that it said could charge EVs as quickly as it takes to pump gas and announced for the first time that it would build a charging network across China.
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March 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
BYD unveils new super-charging EV tech, to build charging network in China reuters.com/business/aut... WOW: capable of peak charging speeds of 1,000 kilowatts, enabling cars that use it to travel 249 miles on a 5-minute charge, founder Wang Chuanfu said
Russia's high-flying gas exporter crippled as Europe stays away www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Troubles deepen for Russia's high-flying Gazprom gas exporter
When the CEO of Russian state gas giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, opened a lavish Italian palazzo-styled building in central St Petersburg to house the company's export arm 11 years ago, he augured a future funded by European sales.
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March 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Russia's high-flying gas exporter crippled as Europe stays away www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Welcome back, baseball, you most glorious of sports:
Orioles’ Charlie Morton has hit 186 batters in 17 seasons but says there’s more to the story tinyurl.com/27x6dfxh "I hit a lot of guys in the feet. I hit a lot of guys in the ankles ... I’m hitting guys with breaking balls"
Orioles’ Charlie Morton has hit 186 batters in 17 seasons but says there’s more to the story tinyurl.com/27x6dfxh "I hit a lot of guys in the feet. I hit a lot of guys in the ankles ... I’m hitting guys with breaking balls"
Orioles' Charlie Morton has hit 186 batters in 17 seasons but says there's more to the story - BaltimoreBaseball.com
SARASOTA—The Orioles knew that when they signed Charlie Morton, the 41-year-old right-hander would bring leadership and stability to their starting staff. They knew he was a two-time All-Star and pitc...
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March 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Welcome back, baseball, you most glorious of sports:
Orioles’ Charlie Morton has hit 186 batters in 17 seasons but says there’s more to the story tinyurl.com/27x6dfxh "I hit a lot of guys in the feet. I hit a lot of guys in the ankles ... I’m hitting guys with breaking balls"
Orioles’ Charlie Morton has hit 186 batters in 17 seasons but says there’s more to the story tinyurl.com/27x6dfxh "I hit a lot of guys in the feet. I hit a lot of guys in the ankles ... I’m hitting guys with breaking balls"
Wait, what? Bonvoy points and kebab. Am going to rewatch the movie, soon, and meditate upon this news: The Mogamma is currently being developed into an Autograph hotel, one of the Marriott Collection’s luxury brands, in a $200mn project. www.ft.com/content/f5b6...
Cairo cool: the renaissance of Downtown
The city’s Belle Époque streets were once Egypt’s nexus of cosmopolitan culture and society; their shine dimmed by post-revolution neglect. Now, a handful of divergent forces are reimagining the origi...
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February 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Wait, what? Bonvoy points and kebab. Am going to rewatch the movie, soon, and meditate upon this news: The Mogamma is currently being developed into an Autograph hotel, one of the Marriott Collection’s luxury brands, in a $200mn project. www.ft.com/content/f5b6...
'Stagflation' fears haunt US markets despite Trump's pro-growth agenda www.reuters.com/markets/us/s...
'Stagflation' fears haunt US markets despite Trump's pro-growth agenda
The dreaded scenario has crept back as a key risk for investors in recent weeks, as the prospect of trade wars and punitive tariffs cast a shadow over U.S. growth.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
'Stagflation' fears haunt US markets despite Trump's pro-growth agenda www.reuters.com/markets/us/s...
February 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Elon Musk’s tactics frustrate some senior White House officials www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Insight: Elon Musk’s tactics frustrate some senior White House officials
As tech billionaire Elon Musk expands his influence over more than a dozen U.S. federal agencies, frustration is growing among some top aides to President Donald Trump, who want more coordination from Musk's team as he slashes the U.S. government, according to four people aware of the tensions.
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February 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Elon Musk’s tactics frustrate some senior White House officials www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...