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Pelosi: ‘Obama’s Nuclear Agreement with Iran Was a Masterpiece of Diplomacy’ Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi: ‘Obama’s Nuclear Agreement with Iran Was a Masterpiece of Diplomacy’

Wednesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Barack Obama’s “nuclear agreement with Iran was a masterpiece of diplomacy.” Host Jen Psaki said, “Just today at a press conference, he name-dropped President Obama in a press conference, which was a completely crazy press conference where he…
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June 18, 2026
Rinehart is up $700m on her SpaceX play. Were Australian investors snubbed to wave through her $1.4bn allocation? SpaceX

Rinehart is up $700m on her SpaceX play. Were Australian investors snubbed to wave through her $1.4bn allocation?

Many Australian punters had their investments in the SpaceX IPO slashed by about 60%. Meanwhile, Gina Rinehart had her full $1 billion investment approved. Did Elon Musk personally stamp it? Gina Rinehart and SpaceX CEO and largest shareholder of SpaceX (Images: AAP) Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, was very keen…
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June 18, 2026
Storm Arthur tracker, path: Tropical storm hits Texas, flooding alert in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, 20,000 ‌barrels of oil could be lost as Atlantic Hurricane Season 2026 begins Hurricane

Storm Arthur tracker, path: Tropical storm hits Texas, flooding alert in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, 20,000 ‌barrels of oil could be lost as Atlantic Hurricane Season 2026 begins

Storm Arthur was expected to move inland over Texas, near the Louisiana border, by Wednesday evening, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Maximum sustained winds were around 45 mph (75 kph). Arthur is expected to produce five to 10 inches (127 to 254 mm) of rainfall. Isolated higher…
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June 18, 2026
Bot for Profit: Can China’s Top AI App Convince Users to Pay? China's Social Credit System

Bot for Profit: Can China’s Top AI App Convince Users to Pay?

After more than a year of relying almost exclusively on Doubao, Li Si is weighing whether to abandon China’s most popular AI chatbot. In recent weeks, the 20-year-old college student says the chatbot has become noticeably less reliable. “Now it forgets everything within 10 minutes. Data processing has become painfully…
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June 18, 2026
ECB’s Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance Checkpoint

ECB’s Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance

TL;DR Lagarde warned AI could trigger financial crises worse than job losses. She wants global AI governance like nuclear non-proliferation treaties. 109 banks stress-tested. ECB President Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence could trigger dangerous financial crises and called for global AI governance modelled on the Cold War-era…
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June 18, 2026