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Checkpoint

As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall

Nuclear weapons – their lethal menace, dark history and future spread – are back in the headlines again and, as usual, the news is worrying, bordering on desperate. Russia’s decision last week to formally abandon the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty banning medium- and short-range nuclear missiles completes the…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

Moravec‘s Paradox

China Wants US to Relax AI Chip-Export Controls for Trade Deal, FT Reports

(Reuters) -China wants the United States to ease export controls on chips critical for artificial intelligence as part of a trade deal before a possible summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Chinese officials have told experts in Washington that Beijing wants the…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

Moravec‘s Paradox

Before You Merge: Read This on Business Change Releases

When big business changes happen, no one wants long-winded press releases filled with jargon. Perfect. Our approach strips away the fluff. We tell it straight. Simple as that. A real person (usually someone up in leadership) shares their take on things, because let's face it, everyone's tired of robot speaking.…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

Times Square

Mariano Rivera tears achilles during Yankees Old-Timers’ Day game

Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera tore an achilles tendon while going after a flyball at the New York Yankees’ Old-Timers’ Day game on Saturday and needs surgery. Agent Fern Cuza said the 55-year-old closer, baseball’s career leader in saves, will have the operation within a week. In his lone at-bat,…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

VR

5 Of The Most Impressive Muscle Cars Ever Built By Chevy

Barry Blackburn/Shutterstock Chevrolet didn't "invent" the muscle car — that honor usually goes to Pontiac — but it was already building them. Even before the introduction of the Chevelle in 1964, Chevrolet was a go-to source for go-fast cars. Then, after the muscle car era ended and the Malaise era…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

Plastic Pollution

Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talks

GENEVA: Talks on forging a landmark treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were stumbling Saturday, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on how far the proposed agreement should go. The negotiations, which opened on Tuesday, have four working days left to strike a legally-binding instrument that…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

Nancy Pelosi

Trump Accuses Pelosis of Insider Trading After Beating ‘Every Hedge Fund’ in 2024

Ezra Shaw/Getty Images President Donald Trump accused former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her husband, Paul, of insider trading after they “beat every Hedge Fund in 2024.” “Crooked Nancy Pelosi, and her very ‘interesting’ husband, beat every Hedge Fund in 2024,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

Propaganda

Opinion: Republican poll bursts propaganda

Jay Fratt shares poll results from Olympia and Tumwater school districts showing most respondents oppose allowing biological boys in girls’ high school sports. Jay Fratt shares results of a school poll asking should biological boys play in girl’s high school sports? Jay Fratt for Clark County Today The most effective…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

Global Warming

Global ocean model affirms Fukushima wastewater release is safe

An aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in August 2023. The tanks contain treated radioactive wastewater the facility has been slowly releasing into the Pacific Ocean. | Photo Credit: Reuters Most monitoring of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s release of tritiated wastewater has thus far focused…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

Homeless

Trump Says Homeless Must Move From D.C. ‘Immediately’

Topline The FBI has deployed its agents to conduct night patrols in the nation’s capital, according to multiple reports, as President Donald Trump said that homeless people living in the nation’s capital would “have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” ahead of a planned press conference where he will address his claims…

bubmagAugust 10, 2025

As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall

China Wants US to Relax AI Chip-Export Controls for Trade Deal, FT Reports

Before You Merge: Read This on Business Change Releases

Mariano Rivera tears achilles during Yankees Old-Timers’ Day game

5 Of The Most Impressive Muscle Cars Ever Built By Chevy

Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talks

Trump Accuses Pelosis of Insider Trading After Beating ‘Every Hedge Fund’ in 2024

Opinion: Republican poll bursts propaganda

Global ocean model affirms Fukushima wastewater release is safe

Trump Says Homeless Must Move From D.C. ‘Immediately’

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