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• Jay Pasachoff travelled the world to catch the Moon eclipsing the Sun
• Apple sold enough iPhones and services last quarter to reverse a downward revenue trend
• Samsung Odyssey monitors are up to $1,000 off right now
• Want a Tax Shelter? Buy a Bond Fund
• At Christmas, Europeans look less united than ever
• The fightback against Javier Milei's radical reforms has begun
• The Apple Watch May Have a Calorie Problem
• US airstrikes hit 'more than 85 targets' in Iraq and Syria; officials say US will not strike inside Iran – live
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How a Rwandan gambit consumed the Conservative Party
• Kin of Italian victims of Nazis may finally get compensation
• Prosecutors in Documents Case Reject Trump's Claims of Bias
• Bibi Netanyahu is the wrong man in the wrong place
• UK universities to review international student admissions after recruitment controversy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Apple's Vision Pro headset ushers in a new era of personal technology
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• Green protectionism comes with big risks
• Goldman Shakes Up Management Committee
• What does China want from Latin America and the Caribbean?
• A MAGA court in New Orleans is shaping the Supreme Court's agenda
• The 25 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now
• America's Supreme Court is inclined to clamp down on regulators
• Satoshi Is Black
• Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4
• Israel strikes a hostage deal but promises the Gaza war isn't over
• Hsiao Bi-khim is Taiwan's cat warrior
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Middle East crisis is splitting the French opposition
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador puts his stamp on Mexico's schools
• Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India's past
• Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
• The outsize influence of small states is fading in the EU
• 'Palworld' Pokémon Modder Tests the Limits of Nintendo's Legal Reach
• Redstone and Ellison plot complex finale to Paramount family drama
• Afghanistan's terrible earthquakes
• Welcome to the ad-free internet
• Gunman Arrested After Gaza Protest at Procter & Gamble Factory in Turkey
• Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine
• The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping
• 'Stunning' US jobs growth of 353,000 far outstrips estimates
• Kamala Harris Rallies Democrats, Pumps Up Biden and Warns of Trump
• Despite its sympathies, Egypt is unlikely to help Palestinian refugees
• The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
• In Europe, green policies rule while green politicians struggle
• Here's How ASCII 'Barbie' Came to a Screen Near You
• The fasting and the furious
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Niremia Collective closes inaugural fund with $22.5M focused on well-being technology
• Business
• Deepfake Robocalls Could be Outlawed After AI-Biden Gives New Hampshirites a Ring
• How oceans became new technological battlefields
• Apple Vision Pro: How to buy or test out the $3,500 headset
• Eric Freeman hoped to save the Gloucestershire of old
• Who will fill the expelled George Santos's seat?
• Xi Jinping wants China to have better toilets
• Beetlejuice 2 Is Really Called Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• How China is making the burger its own
• Every country wants its own investment-screening regime
• Israel isn't sure what to do about the hostages in Gaza
• HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• Dell Terminates Agreement With VMware After Broadcom Acquisition
• The bold Texas plan to stop migrants has hit a wall
• Scrapyards adopt new high-tech ways to dismantle cars
• 'The art world were, "Don't show me that, I'll vomit"': Jacqueline Poncelet on her controversial carpets
• The Bathroom Upgrade You Won't Regret
• Xi Jinping steps up his attempt to rescue China's economy
• How to kill a goose quickly
• Robots Are Fighting Robots in Russia's War in Ukraine
• Newark may have found a fix for chronic homelessness
• Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• Commercial Property Losses Hammer Banks on Three Continents
• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• Some progressives are arguing for a religious right to abortion
• Even as war rages in Gaza, Israel's Arabs are feeling more Israeli
• Should you send your children to private school?
• Myanmar's junta suffers startling defeats
• The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting
• Delivery robots will transform Christmas
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
• Santiago Peña, a former economist, is Paraguay's next president
• Britain needs an unprecedented expansion of the electricity grid
• The rise of English viticulture
• Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
• What Is the Internet of Things? A WIRED Guide
• What if China and India became friends?
• Governments across the world are discovering "homeland economics"
• 'Someone Is Using Photos of Me to Talk to Men'
• Japan needs more sperm donors
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Giving the poor a wodge of cash is better than dripping it out
• A $35bn mega-merger strengthens a quiet chip duopoly
• French fighter jets join the Baltic mission
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• Photo: Biden Sees Dignified Transfer of 3 Troops Killed in Jordan
• Carl Weathers: a life in pictures
• Why Don't We Teach People How to Parent?
• What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• A New Year's interview with Volodymyr Zelensky
• What gift would you give Narendra Modi?
• Best Memory Foam Mattresses for 2024 - CNET
• China is stoking a controversy in order to influence Taiwan's election
• The FCC wants to make robocalls that use AI-generated voices illegal
• American universities face a reckoning over antisemitism
• Narendra Modi and the art of claiming credit
• Bangladesh strikes a blow against lead poisoning
• Avatar visual effects workers vote to unionize
• Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer's?
• Facebook Parent Meta Initiates Dividend as Growth Continues
• The French debate the future of steak frites
• The Supreme Court may toss out Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement
• Rushdi Sarraj loved to record what others did not or would not see
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Up First briefing: Biden sanctions Israeli settlers; mystery noise disturbs Floridians
• Tim Cook Teases Big AI Announcement for Apple Later This Year
• The future lies with electric vehicles
• A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
• Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way—Especially From YouTube
• Guatemala's election produces a pleasant surprise
• Best Twin Mattress for 2024 - CNET
• Why are America's suburbs failing?
• China's economy is suffering from long covid
• A growing industry is emerging to make philanthropy simpler
• As Israel fights on in Gaza its dilemma gets worse
• Missing Boxes, an Email From China: How a Chip Shipment Sparked a U.S. Probe
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• How science will be transformed by AI
• Evergrande's liquidation is a new low in China's property crisis
• A Lawyer Explains How He Beat Elon Musk
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Chinese companies are flocking to Mexico
• Watch Groundhog Day 2024: Punxsutawney Phil declares an early spring
• The World's Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble
• Some of the new king's realms may become republics
• What economists have learnt from the post-pandemic business cycle
• Cuba's Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
• Will China save the planet or destroy it?
• Hilary Mantel saw things that others couldn't
• How to change the policy of the British government
• Why China is restricting exports of graphite
• You Can't Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To
• The deadly missile race in the Middle East
• Violence spirals as Iran's proxies kill American soldiers
• Politics
• China may be losing its sway over Taiwanese business
• Moment of deadly gas explosion in Kenyan capital – video
• How Do You Turn Around a Bear Market? China Has One Answer
• Alien-Looking Fossil Trees Uncovered in Canada: 'Unlike Any of Those That Live at the Present'
• A comical effort by China's intelligence agency
• How to sneak billions of dollars out of China
• It's not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
• Researchers Say the Deepfake Biden Robocall Was Likely Made With Tools From AI Startup ElevenLabs
• The battle with China is psychological as much as physical
• Inside the shared studio of Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An expert on civil war issues a warning about America
• What is Crispr Gene Editing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach were sides of the same coin
• Autherine Lucy was an unlikely pioneer
• Video games, power and diplomacy
• An election that could make the global internet safer for autocrats
• This week's covers
• What would Europe do if Trump won?
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• Generative AI generates tricky choices for managers
• Tesla sued by 25 California counties for allegedly mishandling hazardous waste
• The speech police are coming for social media
• The firepower of Iran-backed militias, in maps
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Why are there so many suicides in rich, stable Uruguay?
• Inside the Spectocracy
• The 30 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now
• Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies
• Jean-Jacques Sempé was an unparalleled observer of the human condition
• How Nevada's Republicans made their primary irrelevant
• South American governments are trying to curb illegal fishing
• Chinese art students scrawled Communist graffiti in London's Brick Lane
• A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science
• Canada's wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal
• California is losing people, but this region wouldn't know it
• 15 Best Laptop Backpacks (2024): Weather-Proof, Sustainable, Stylish
• The WIRED Guide to Aliens
• Is Argentina's new president too divisive to fix a broken economy?
• How big is the role of luck in career success?
• Colleges Are Lying to Their Students
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India is seeing a massive aviation boom
• Ukraine's commander-in-chief on the breakthrough he needs to beat Russia
• Is a two-state solution possible after the Gaza war?
• When can American officials block citizens on social media?
• China's persecution of Uyghurs extends to those it once favoured
• How will Britons vote in the next election?
• A Belgian company wants to create woolly-mammoth burgers
• After it ends, the war in Gaza will still continue to shape Israel
• China is struggling to recruit enough highly skilled troops
• Argentina's Javier Milei begins his radical experiment in libertarian rule
• Business
• Canada's apology came too late for my grandfather, stolen and abused aged eight
• Can Europe arm Ukraine—or even itself?
• 25 Affordable Valentine's Day Gifts Under $50 - CNET
• The Chinese Communist Party wants (a bit) less consumer internet
• When China thought America might invade
• South Korean politics is one big row about history
• OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New AI Projects
• The age of the grandparent has arrived
• The agony of 24 hostages is over. The Gaza war isn't
• What to Watch: The Best Movies and TV Shows From January
• Spain's Socialists are struggling to recover power
• London's riotous pedicabs are about to be regulated
• Why the 'world's coolest dictator' is on course for a landslide win in El Salvador
• Britain's native farm animals can be rarer than giant pandas
• Senegal's president asks if democracy can work in Africa's coup-belt
• A new diplomatic struggle is unfolding over Taiwan
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The energy transition could make India even more unequal
• Israel is strangling the West Bank's economy
• Erdogan's empire
• Why sexually transmitted infections are rising in America
• The rise and fall of class dysphoria in Britain
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
• Xi Jinping is trying to fuse the ideologies of Marx and Confucius
• Franz Mohr was the man who made great concerts possible
• Arc'teryx apparel maker Amer Sports raises less than hoped in IPO
• Can a $12 phone get 300m illiterate Indians online?
• Was your degree really worth it?
• Could a Rogue Billionaire Make a Nuclear Weapon?
• Boutique e-motorcycle startup Cake files for bankruptcy
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• Don't be fooled by America's "new" supply chains
• Why doctors in America earn so much
• Cheer up, Sir Keir! It might never happen
• 2023 looks set to be a watershed year for the climate
• Richard Simpson strove to balance buyers against manufacturers
• Craig Wright Claims He's Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Can He Prove It in Court?
• In 2021 our writers considered technology, meritocracy and the trans debate
• What a third world war would mean for investors
• Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro's influence
• This week's covers
• "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" show that blockbusters could save the cinema
• Have a bathroom each: tips for a successful multigenerational holiday
• Teenagers jailed for 'exceptionally brutal' murder of Brianna Ghey
• Cocktail of the week: Twelve Triangles' rhubarb, cardamom and white balsamic shrub – recipe | The good mixer
• Young women are turning their backs on body positivity. It's time we all stopped obsessing about how we look | Zoya Patel
• How the young should invest
• How did the Iowa result change the Republican primary?
• The best books of 2021
• Geert Wilders makes a show of respecting the law
• What is the world's loveliest language?
• Who is in charge of Europe?
• Could Mark Carney lead Canada?
• Hard times for China's micro-industrialists
• To understand Britain, watch "Homes Under the Hammer"
• The world's least liveable cities are starting to improve
• I'm Obsessed With This Huge Smart Touchscreen Calendar
• U.S. Quietly Resumes Deportation Flights Deep Into Mexico
• The Mexican president's latest boondoggle officially opens
• America's economy is booming. Why aren't its bosses happier?
• Tesla settles California hazardous waste lawsuit for $1.5 million
• Can America's weapons-makers adapt to 21st-century warfare?
• Good evening, Ms Bond. We've been expecting you
• Apple Quadrupled Its Autonomous Driving Testing Miles Last Year
• Much of Russia's intellectual elite has fled the country
• Weatherwatch: study makes green case for electric planes
• The world's greatest toilet culture
• Poland gives pro-European liberals a big win
• Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool ready to buckle up for high-stakes title fight
• Republicans are turning against Ukraine
• 'If Instagram didn't exist, it wouldn't have happened': a mother's search for her trafficked daughter
• If the New Child Tax Credit Passes, Who Gets the Money?
• Giorgia Meloni has proved the doubters wrong
• A centre-right maverick, Pieter Omtzigt, could win the Dutch election
• Trees alone will not save the world
• Software is now as important as hardware in cars
• Lawrence MacEwen made a tiny island prosper
• M.S. Swaminathan, the man who fed India
• Why politicians are obsessed with mythical Chinese land grabs
• Why skipping ropes are so expensive in China
• The People's Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
• The path ahead for China's Belt and Road Initiative
• External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
• A new book celebrates Annie Leibovitz's fashion photography
• Welcome to the era of AI nationalism
• How China became a car-exporting juggernaut
• Apple's Vision Pro will have Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel and other 365 apps at launch
• A genocidal militia is winning the war in Sudan
• A clash over Trump's disqualification tests the Supreme Court
• Why Britain's Treasury must change its ways
• Business
• Narendra Modi has seized and politicised Indian cricket
• Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women
• Why fewer university students are studying Mandarin
• Can Arc'teryx's owner revive Chinese IPOs in America?
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Why house prices have risen once again
• The "Scream" franchise adds another self-referential sequel
• American pollsters aren't sure they have fixed the flaws of 2020
• Amazon launches Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant
• Will Rishi Sunak's reshuffle make a difference in the polls?
• America's border crisis in ten charts
• The surprising resilience of the Russian economy
• A brutal battle for southern Gaza beckons once the truce ends
• Politics
• Europe's monarchies are a study in dignified inanity
• The renewables business faces a make-or-break moment
• Why some whales can smell in stereo
• America and Iran step closer to the brink of war
• A supposed haven in Sudan falls to a genocidal militia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Jessamine Chan's gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
• Linda Yaccarino Says X Needs More Moderators After All
• Why economists are at war over inequality
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• Faulty door plugs open old wounds at Boeing
• "The Harder They Fall" offers a new take on the Old West
• KAL's cartoon
• Goldman Shakes Up Management Committee
• Gaza's nights are darker now than at any point in the past decade
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How to get rich in the 21st century
• Israel has just a few weeks left to destroy Hamas
• Judge throws out case against Greta Thunberg and other London protesters
• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
• Are you 'loud budgeting' or 'doom spending'? Finance according to gen Z
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• China is struggling with a surge of respiratory ailments
• Joe Biden's limits on LNG exports won't help the climate
• Bitcoin ETFs are off to a bad start. Will things improve?
• Can the Mediterranean become Europe's energy powerhouse?
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
• The U.S. Conducted Retaliatory Strikes in Iraq and Syria
• Taiwanese politics faces a crucial election in early 2024
• KAL's cartoon
• Tim Burton Will Direct Gillian Flynn-Penned Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
• Outrage against femicide is spreading in Italy
• Tesla Recalling Almost Every Car It's Sold In The US
• It is time to divert Taiwan's trade and investment from China
• FTC orders Blackbaud to overhaul 'reckless' security practices in wake of 2020 breach
• Israel's judge in The Hague is its government's bogeyman
• TikTok is a key battleground in Indonesia's election
• The world's population has reached 8bn. Don't panic
• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
• As Ukrainian men head off to fight, women take up their jobs
• America suspends duty-free access to four African countries
• South Korea's ban on praising the North is ridiculous
• Mafia boss who escaped prison using bedsheets recaptured in France
• Watching "The Shawshank Redemption" on stage in China
• AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts
• The world this year 2023
• KAL's cartoon
• Frontline Formosa
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• Is Harvard Business School too woke?
• Can computing clean up its act?
• Older British voters still favour the Tories. Others, not so much
• China tries to figure out whom a hit song is mocking
• China's quest to become a robot superpower
• Does the tank have a future?
• How rationing became the fashion under the Tories
• Portugal's prime minister resigns over a corruption scandal
• Hamas Divisions Over U.S.-Backed Cease-Fire Proposal Stall Negotiations
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Atmospheric River Could Bring Record Rainfall and Flooding to Southern California
• Higher wages are spurring innovation in dinner
• Taylor Swift and other Universal Music tracks are disappearing from TikTok
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• Politics
• Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's prime minister, is wasting his opportunity
• NASA Needs Ideas to Study Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Apophis
• India's businessmen like Narendra Modi. They also fear him
• Emmanuel Macron's vision of a more muscular Europe is coming true
• Geert Wilders struggles towards power in the Netherlands
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Trenches and tech on Ukraine's southern front
• Armenia is turning against its erstwhile guardian, Russia
• In preparing for disasters, museums face tough choices
• "Don't Look Up", Adam McKay's political farce, is bleakly realistic
• Hebe de Bonafini lived through the lives of her sons
• Inside the banter-industrial complex
• Which languages take the longest to learn?
• Keeping tabs on China's murky maritime manoeuvres
• Companies run to their own annual rhythms
• How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
• Tesla recalls over 2 million EVs because the warning light text is too small
• Will US-Indian relations be hurt by India's assassination scheme?
• Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular
• New rules for America's green-hydrogen industry are controversial
• Chinese apps are a mixed blessing for American big tech
• BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• The US Congress remains far from the finish line of a budget deal
• Wayne Kramer, co-founder of rock band MC5, dies aged 75
• African leaders want debt relief for climate action
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• KAL's cartoon
• China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation
• Lawmaking in Britain is becoming worse
• How China sees Gaza
• An ancient whale-like animal may be the biggest to have ever lived
• Fifteen notable lives lost in 2022
• How to speak like a member of Congress
• Banning Private Jets and Going to a 4-Day Work Week Are Radical—and Popular
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• Heart attacks, strokes, dementia—can Biden and Trump beat the odds?
• Celebrities and Brands Are Coming to BeReal. Can They Be Real?
• Which EU country is winning our economic pentathlon?
• Isabel Crook devoted her long life to making a new China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Japan's ruling party is in crisis
• Living Through the End of California
• How to succeed—and fail—as a foreign business in India
• Comcast agrees to kill 10G branding after advertising watchdogs said it was misleading
• Japan is a cuddlier friend to South-East Asia than America or China
• In Xi Jinping's China, central planners rule
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Israeli settlers are causing mayhem in the West Bank
• Dunkin' faces a moo-ving class-action suit from the lactose intolerant
• WIRED's 11 Noteworthy Long-form Stories of 2023
• For a second time Chileans reject a new constitution. Now what?
• Humidifiers vs Dehumidifiers vs Purifiers: Which One Do I Actually Need?
• The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives
• Across the Spider-Verse Almost Had a Crazy Spider-Man Game Easter Egg
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why car insurance in America is actually too cheap
• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
• Russia's friends are a motley—and shrinking—crew
• Saleemul Huq lobbied ceaselessly to make poor countries heard
• Has Team Transitory really won America's inflation debate?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• What to do about an uptick in Americans unjustly held abroad
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• A Nobel prize in physiology for mRNA vaccines
• Sadiq Khan says he will monitor effectiveness of Paris plan to raise charges on SUVs
• Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
• In drought-stricken Europe, leaky pipes are worsening the problem
• China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country
• One of the Internet's Oldest Software Archives Is Shutting Down
• How scientists are using artificial intelligence
• Gao Yaojie uncovered a scandal that shocked and shamed China
• Britain's chancellor offers tax cuts and fiscal trickery
• Latin America remains a playground for Russian intelligence
• Broadway is struggling to find its rhythm after the pandemic
• OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New AI Projects
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• Politics
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• The Trump factor is looming over China's markets
• Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories
• The Morning After: The FCC wants to make AI-voiced robocalls illegal
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• Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis
• How American states squeeze athletes (and remote workers)
• Singapore's biggest money-laundering case has links to Chinese gamblers
• How a sombre mood gripped Europe
• China's economy is a mess. Why aren't firms going under?
• This week's covers
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• When should a founder step down?
• The Chinese yuan is losing value, yet gaining ground
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• Man Whose Attacks on Jan. 6 Were Seen as a Tipping Point Convicted for Assault
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• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Should women's football have different rules from men's?
• The Economist's science and technology internship
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
• How the spirit of Jacques Delors might be rekindled
• Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature
• America's New Cable-TV King Almost Gave Up on Television
• Israel's window of legitimacy in Gaza is shrinking
• Sheikh Hasina's party is set to be re-elected in January
• Where Donald Trump still looks vulnerable
• Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
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• The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
• Why stockpickers should get out more
• Oil Profits Keep Flowing for Exxon and Chevron
• A Nobel prize for quantum dottiness
• IMF chief confident in 'pragmatic' Milei despite setbacks
• Geert Wilders's Dutch election win is a headache for Europe
• Business
• Why Kentucky's Democratic governor is heading for re-election
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• A wave of international rule-making threatens Caribbean tax havens
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• Apple's Vision Pro Is Trying to Solve a Nearly Unsolvable Problem
• Tesla recalls nearly 2.2M vehicles for software update to fix warning lights
• Hulu Shows Jarring Anti-Hamas Ad Likely Generated With AI
• Hire mindset over skill set
• Australia and China patch things up
• The return of The Economist's agony uncle
• Apple says it'll show its GenAI efforts 'later this year'
• India's Supreme Court refuses to recognise same-sex marriage
• Universal Music Group Yanks Its Artists, Including Taylor Swift, Off TikTok: What to Do - CNET
• Mark Zuckerberg's Persistent Power in Silicon Valley
• KAL's cartoon
• Martin Rowson on Labour's business conference and a binned green investment plan – cartoon
• What will artificial intelligence mean for your pay?
• Latin America's most powerful new gang built a human-trafficking empire
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• A new nuclear arms race looms
• Bad Blood: Why TikTok Videos With Taylor Swift and Other Universal Artists Are Now Silent
• Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
• Just how bad is it in Gaza?
• Nintendo Turned Gary Bowser Into a Real-Life Villain
• "Grief camps" help Ukrainian children face the loss of parents
• Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world
• America's government isn't shutting down just yet
• KAL's cartoon
• A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
• It's not the Trump Party quite yet
• Google Splits Up a Key AI Ethics Watchdog
• Taiwan's opposition parties unite
• Why Yemen's Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea
• Kenya is belatedly granting citizenship to groups once deemed foreign
• Invest in America, Live in Europe---a Mantra Some Just Can't Shake
• War-ravaged Somalia takes a big step towards normality
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• Amazon to Launch AI Shopping Assistant
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• The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how
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• Some German Jews say their country goes too far defending Israel
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• Israel is pushing into southern Gaza as the clock ticks down
• An unusual museum in China is dedicated to Vinegar Joe
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• Argentina could get its first libertarian president
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• Data Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Northern Ireland gets its government back
• Apple Isn't Ready to Release Its Grip on the App Store
• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
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• German judges toss a spanner into the government's spending plans
• Do by-election results in Britain matter?
• One in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth
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• Attacks on shipping threaten to upend peace talks in Yemen
• Judge in Trump Federal Election Case Scraps Trial's Start Date
• Do rising methane levels herald a climate feedback loop?
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• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Democrats are giddy from this week's electoral sweep
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• Latin America is set to become a major oil producer this decade
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• This week's covers
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• KAL's cartoon
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• A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine
• Scottish nationalism's left turn
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• Politics
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