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December 16, 2025 -- While President Donald J. Trump was gloating over the horrific murders ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)

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Met de huidige opwarming van de aarde is het kantelpunt voor koraalriffen naar alle waarschijnlijkheid overschreden. Dat is een van de kernbevindingen uit het Global Tipping Points (GTP) 2025 rapport dat in oktober verscheen. 🔗 knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/nieuws/k…


Arnaques au faux colis par SMS : Google porte plainte contre un important réseau chinois ift.tt/a5wzJEk


Gemini 3 Flash is here, bringing a ‘huge’ upgrade to the Gemini app

A more efficient version of the Gemini 3 Pro model offers faster responses while retaining the flagship model’s reasoning capabilities.



Peacock will bombard you with ads as soon as you open the app

Even your profile selection menu isn’t safe from ads.



AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025

A new study estimates the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and calls for more transparency from companies on their pollution and water consumption.



Vought says National Center for Atmospheric Research will be dismantled (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

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A Chinese #whistleblower now living in the US is being hunted by Beijing with US #tech

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A digitally painted illustration depicts two people in a futuristic setting, likely inside a spacecraft. The background is a solid, light blue color. To the left stands a person with short, white hair, looking off to the side, and wearing a bright orange jumpsuit with a dark belt. To the right, another person with dark hair is looking down at a control panel, also wearing an orange jumpsuit, with a slightly darker orange accent color on the collar and shoulders. A large, red, boxy structure with circular openings is partially visible on the right side of the image, and a white control panel is in the foreground. There is no visible text.

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#assurance : a declaration tending to inspire full confidence

- French: garantie

- German: Versicherung, Versprechen

- Italian: garanzia

- Portuguese: garantia

- Spanish: garantía

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#BBC Caesarean sections overtake natural vaginal births for the first time w.st/Q8g4U
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Is this a reaction to worsening obstetric care for normal birthing?



#BBC True origin of 'first black Briton' revealed w.st/86XaK
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Vanity Fair writer dares Trump admin to 'challenge a single fact' in bombshell interview

Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple — who authored a bombshell profile on White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — told CNN that the White House should know better than to deny the facts of his article.

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Trump insiders 'unsettled' by 'alarming' behavior: biographer

Donald Trump's recent comments have loyalists within his own administration "unsettled," according to the Daily Beast, with author and reporter Michael Wolff stating that his "alarming" behavior had a...

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Conservative declares Trump is 'the most loathsome being ever to occupy the White House'

Conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, though he took his criticism a step further after the president insulted the late actor-director Rob...

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GOP insider pulls back the curtain on bombshell interview

President Donald Trump's former campaign manager and current chief of staff, Susie Wiles left no one untouched speaking to a Vanity Fair reporter for a profile that was posted on Tuesday.

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