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Voter swings raise alarm bells for US Republicans
AFP, Published on 05/02/2026
» WASHINGTON - “Today is the day!” US President Donald Trump wrote Saturday on Truth Social, urging followers in Texas to “GET OUT AND VOTE” for the “phenomenal” Republican candidate in a state senate race.
Harvard Chinese student's graduation speech strikes a chord as Trump leads crackdown
South China Morning Post, Published on 02/06/2025
» A Chinese student's graduation speech at Harvard University emphasising "shared humanity" and calling for global unity has gone viral, days after the Trump administration pledged to "aggressively" revoke the visas of students from China.
Jimmy Carter: president, global mediator, Nobel laureate
AFP, Published on 30/12/2024
» WASHINGTON - Jimmy Carter held a unique place in US politics: he was the oldest former president and a Nobel peace laureate, but his one term in office was forever tainted by his inability to end the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
‘Godfather of AI’ co-winner of physics Nobel
Reuters, Published on 08/10/2024
» STOCKHOLM - Geoffrey Hinton — often called the “Godfather of AI” — and John Hopfield have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning.
Jupiter moon thought to be habitable may be oxygen starved
New York Times, Published on 05/03/2024
» NEW YORK - Under its bright, frosty shell, Jupiter’s moon Europa is thought to harbor a salty ocean, making it a world that might be one of the most habitable places in our solar system, but life as we know it needs oxygen and and it’s an open question whether Europa’s ocean has it.
Republicans despair over 2024 as party loses head
AFP, Published on 05/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - The overthrow of the US House speaker by a cabal of far-right agitators has left Republicans aghast at the party's chaotic approach to governing -- and its prospects for next year's presidential election.
World's oldest burial site found in S.Africa - scientists
AFP, Published on 06/06/2023
» MAROPENG, South Africa: Palaeontologists in South Africa said Monday they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behaviour.
From Yale to jail: Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers 'general'
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» WASHINGTON - To Stewart Rhodes, his conviction for leading the far-right Oath Keepers militia in the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol made him America's premier political prisoner -- the equivalent of Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Martin Amis, a second-generation literary lion
AFP, Published on 21/05/2023
» PARIS - One of the burdens of having a famous father is trying to measure up to him in the same field.
Journey to the center of the world (Hint: it's in California)
AFP, Published on 05/05/2023
» FELICITY (UNITED STATES) - Every morning, Jacques-Andre Istel has breakfast in bed at the center of the world.