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Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani are set for a dramatic clash, with New York as its stage and victim. The city may soon become an arena for a fight between two men with bad ideas https://t.co/g2sqeNFbG3
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The New Georgia Project, her get-out-the-vote group, has folded
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The New Georgia Project, her get-out-the-vote group, has folded
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The White House ballroom may end up both a lasting monument to the current president—and 90,000 square feet of hubris
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They rarely start from solid foundations
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Tinder, Hinge and Bumble are betting big on the technology
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Tinder, Hinge and Bumble are betting big on the technology
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Its leaders don’t seem too concerned. Should they be?
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Its leaders don’t seem too concerned. Should they be?
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Can anything truly replace the framework and buzz of being part of the action? Retirement is just not that fulfilling
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Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling
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Extreme weather is hurting its economy and worrying its leaders
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Extreme weather is hurting its economy and worrying its leaders
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It is a test case for the green transition in the Global South
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It is a test case for the green transition in the Global South
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Most football stickers are a delight, displaying colourful crests and club slogans from Preston to Plymouth. But in the past year football stickers have become noticeably more political
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The sport is becoming a battleground in Britain’s culture war
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China’s moment for climate leadership has arrived
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China’s moment for climate leadership has arrived
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GPS jamming has become a constant feature of modern conflicts, including the fierce electronic warfare on the front lines in Ukraine. But the US Space Force is hoping to create a new system that is harder to jam or fool
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The system should soon become harder to jam or fool
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China’s green-industrial complex makes deep decarbonisation possible, but far from inevitable
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China’s green-industrial complex makes deep decarbonisation possible, but far from inevitable
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“Just because other crises are competing for attention, it does not follow that voters want climate targets abandoned,” writes Luisa Neubauer, a German climate activist, in a guest essay
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Luisa Neubauer argues that rolling back climate policies is economic suicide masquerading as pragmatism
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Off-cycle elections have a knack for hinting at what might come next. Polling indicates patience with Donald Trump has worn thin. What this means for Democrats will be somewhat clearer on Tuesday night https://t.co/sPGIszhT6o Photo: Getty Images
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The Israelis hope that as winter sets in and Gazans start asking why reconstruction has not begun, a new Palestinian security force can oversee Hamas’s disarmament. But what if that doesn’t happen?
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As fighting flares between Israel and Hamas, no one wants to pledge peacekeeping troops
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To judge by international reactions to the Dutch elections, one would think that Rob Jetten, leader of the progressive D66 party, had discovered the key to defeating the hard right. But it may not be so simple
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It turns out that it is not so simple; but smiling helps
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But, writes Christiana Figueres, innovation still has to outpace climate impacts
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But, writes Christiana Figueres, innovation still has to outpace climate impacts
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“There is satellite imagery literally showing pools of blood on the ground in El Fasher.” @johnpmcdermott tells “The Intelligence” of the rising atrocities in Darfur. Listen now
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Also on the daily podcast: how AI is shrinking the “rip-off economy” and the decline of the questionnaire
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