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Clear frontrunner to win Best Actor Oscar emerges as odds soar
Timothée Chalamet’s chances of winning the Oscar for Best Actor have soared following his recent Golden Globe victory. Chalamet won the…
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ICE Is Using a Terrifying Palantir App to Determine Where to Raid
How are ICE agents picking where to commit their next act of wanton violence? Well, Palantir has an app for that! According to a user…
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Grave AI Recruiting Error Is Making ICE Even More Dangerous
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement used artificial intelligence to streamline its rush to add 10,000 more agents to its countrywide…
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Haifa man arrested for repeatedly raping underage daughter over several years
The man allegedly began raping the girl when she was 7 years old and continued until she was 15, at which point the police intervened. A…
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Toronto schools closed and commuters face delays as heavy snow blankets southern Ontario
TORONTO (AP) — Schools were closed in Canada's largest city of Toronto and commuters faced severe delays on Thursday as heavy snow…
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“Another Tuskegee”: Leaked Docs Reveal CDC Is Funding Deadly Study
The health newsletter Inside Medicine obtained the protocols for a study receiving $1.6 million to experiment on babies in Guinea-Bissau.…
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Final day to select ACA health plans arrives in most states, with no subsidy deal yet
Thursday was the final day to select an Affordable Care Act health insurance plan across much of the country, as the expiration of federal…
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Goldman Sachs’ profit rises on dealmaking, trading strength
Its profit attributable to common shareholders rises to US$4.4 billion in Q4, from US$3.9 billion a year before [BENGALURU/NEW YORK]…
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Trump Is Keeping Money From Venezuelan Oil Sale in Offshore Account
The full list of countries subject to the freeze is: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas,…
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Wall Street opens higher as chip stocks shine
Wall Street’s main indexes rose at market open on Thursday (Jan 15) after TSMC’s blockbuster quarterly results ignited a rally in…
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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act to Stop Minnesota Protests
President Donlad Trump threatened Thursday to send the U.S. military into Minnesota, following the state’s second shooting involving a…
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Uganda’s autocratic political system is failing its people – and threatens the region
When he was first sworn in as Uganda’s president in 1986, Yoweri Museveni declared that his victory represented a “fundamental change”. He…
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ICE Shoots Another Man in Minneapolis as Crackdown Escalates
ICE has shot another person in Minneapolis, raising tensions in an already inflamed atmosphere. The Department of Homeland Security said…
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New power outages in Ukraine due to Russian airstrikes
Russian airstrikes caused further widespread power outages in Ukraine overnight, the Ministry of Energy announced in Kiev on Thursday.…
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CapitaLand India Trust wins second hyperscaler agreement for data-centre development
The facility has a gross power capacity of 55 MW and is set to be completed by Q4 2026 The trustee-manager of CapitaLand India Trust…
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Qatar welcomes second phase of Gaza peace plan
Qatar, which is helping to mediate a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, has welcomed the US announcement on Wednesday of the start of…
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Keppel bags 720 MW power bank for AI data-centre campus near Melbourne
The group is in ‘active discussions with hyperscalers and neoclouds’ on the site’s future capacity Asset manager Keppel on Thursday (Jan…
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'Over 90% of Iranians hate the regime,' INSS’s Beni Sabti reveals from leaked Iran survey
“It was a secret poll which said that 92% of the Iranian people hate their regime,” Sabti said, according to a transcript provided to The…
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Transcript: Mike Johnson’s Gaslighting on ICE Takes Truly Vile Turn
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 15 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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The Credit Card Interest Cap Is a Scam
The president has no authority to dictate credit card terms, and his price controls would constrain access if enacted. Source link
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An Open Letter to John Malone
Your sale to AT&T was a turning point in our national history. Source link
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Column: Trump celebrates our nation's founding while imitating tyrant King George III
It’s a measure of President Trump’s lack of self-awareness — a superpower, really, for authoritarian demagogues like him who otherwise…
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Trump Already Gave Us the Blueprint for Abolishing ICE
At the same time, Trump’s campaign has further soured the American public on ICE. A recent Economist/YouGov survey found that 46 percent…
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Amazingly, the Democrats Have a Shot at a Senate Majority
And in many key states, Democrats have found Senate candidates who are familiar to voters and have been skilled enough to win in these…