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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

Editor's Pick

Not lighthearted craziness, or a comic disorder of the mind: what
ita''s like living with OCD

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candid extract from her new memoir, actor Tuppence Middleton describes
her lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and asks for
those with the condition to be treated with more sympathy

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Editor's Note: As a society, we often classify certain mental health
disorders as less acute than others; OCD is one of them. It is still
trivialised by the media, and many people falsely believe that it can
be filed under a personality type characterised by traits or quirks
such as liking things to be clean or being concerned with order. There
is a plethora of novelty merchandise available, branding their owner
as "a little bit OCD."

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A Fist-Fight Over Donald Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard -
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In early February, Wheaton College, a well-known evangelical school
outside of Chicago, made a seemingly innocuous post on social media,
giving a shout-out to one of its own for getting a prestigious job. An
alumnus, Russell Vought, had just been confirmed as the director of
the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Wheaton College
congratulates and prays for 1998 graduate Russell Vought, the post
read. Vought, who also served at the O.M.B. in Donald Trumps first
Administration, has been credited as one of the intellectual
architects of the Presidents comeback: he contributed to the most
recent Republican platform and helped establish the D.C.
infrastructure for the MAGA-movement-in-waiting over the past four
years. He also wrote the chapter of Project 2025, the Heritage
Foundations blueprint for this Administration, about executive power.

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Death of South Korean actor at 24 sparks discussion about social media
and internet culture
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean actor Kim Sae-ron's death this
week has triggered an outpouring of grief and calls for changes to the
way the country's celebrities are treated in the public arena and on
social media, which critics say can foster a culture of harassment.















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Germany's Habeck slams 'tech oligarch' Musk, calls for a European X
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Green chancellor candidate warns that Europe's reliance on Silicon
Valley is a threat to democracy.

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Australia's central bank cuts interest rate for the first time in more
than four years
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The Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday cut benchmark interest rates
for the first time in over four years, joining ranks with other major
global central banks, as softening inflation allows room for easing
policy. The RBA cut rates by 25 basis points to 4.10%.














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I work in global health. Trump ditching the World Health Organization
might be the wake-up call it needs.
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Here's what Trump gets right -- and wrong -- about the WHO. Shortly
after his inauguration, President Donald Trump took a set of thick,
black permanent markers and signed a sweeping set of executive orders
that took aim at everything from immigration and gender to TikTok and
climate change.

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There's One Lie I Will Never Tell My Children
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Parents who claim to never lie to their children are liars. It begins
with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Then it's yes, all
kindergartners go to bed at 7 o'clock and no, the chickens on the farm
and the chicken on your plate are not the same kind of chicken.














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BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired
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BlackBerry's iconic patent for keyboards on mobile devices expires
today after being filed in 2005. The company shot to success in the
early 2000s with what are essentially the world's first smartphones.

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Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Have Sold 2 Million Units, Production To Be
Vastly Increased
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2 million units so far, and the annual
production capacity is being increased to 10 million by the end of
2026. These announcements come from EssilorLuxottica's CEO Francesco
Milleri during the company's Q4 2024 earnings call this week.














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Marriages in China Crash, Portending Deeper Demographic Woes
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Numbers of marriages in China dropped to 6.1 million in 2024, an
exceptionally steep fall of 20.5 percent from the prior year. The
continuing decline in marriage rates likely presages yet further
declines in birth rates, intensifying China's demographic headwinds.

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Neurons that tell you to stop eating could unlock obesity treatments
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Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have
identified the specific neurons in mice brains that tell them they've
eaten enough. This fascinating discovery could play a big role in the
future of weight loss treatments for humans.














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Posting hateful speech online could lead to police raiding your home
in this European country
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If you've ever dared to read the comments on a social media post, you
might start to wonder if civilized discourse is just a myth.
Aggressive threats, lies, and harassment have unfortunately become the
norm online, where anonymity has emboldened some users to push the
limits of civility.

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Fed Wanted an Inclusive Jobs Recovery. Some Are Asking if That Helped
Fuel Inflation - Bloomberg (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=146366&nl=daily]
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In the first formal review of their policy strategy in five years,
Federal Reserve officials are confronting a question that many outside
the building have already taken up: Did their ambitious goals for a
more inclusive job-market recovery after the pandemic slow their
response to surging inflation?














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AI data center with up to 3 gigawatts of power is envisioned for South
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An investor group is planning one of the worlds largest data centers
for artificial intelligence in South Korea, a sign of red-hot AI
demand across the globe despite concern about the AI booms staying
power.

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Chinas love affair with luxury has cooled - WSJ (No paywall)
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SHANGHAIXie Weina used to buy luxury bags that cost $1,500 or more
every couple of months. Last year, instead of bags, she spent about
$2,800 on a gym membership and Pilates lessons.














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How AI can protect vital pipelines and cables deep in the ocean - WSJ
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Huge stretches of these critical connectors lie unprotected in the
murky depthsand vulnerable to attacks such as the 2022 sabotage of the
Nord Stream pipelines that carry Russian natural gas to Europe under
the Baltic Sea.

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Planned US-Russia talks over Ukraine throw Europe into crisis - WSJ
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PARISEuropes main military powers were scrambling to reclaim a seat at
the negotiating table after the Trump administration sidelined them
from talks with Russia over the future of Ukraine and the continents
broader security.













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Xis rehabilitation of Jack Ma may be the most lucrative ever - The
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Chinas Communist Party has a history of purging then welcoming back
senior officials. Deng Xiaoping was purged three times before leading
the country out of Maoism in the late 1970s. Some cadres are welcomed
back years after their death. Jack Ma, Alibabas founder, received the
modern version of a purge in 2020. The initial public offering (ipo)
of his fintech company, Ant Group, was cancelled. Alibaba was probed
and handed a record fine. Mr Ma withdrew from public life.

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Memecoin scandal rocks Argentinas Javier Milei - FT (No paywall)
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Opposition calls for presidents impeachment after he promoted a
cryptocurrency that plunged in value

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Should We Worry About DOGE Controlling the U.S. Payment System? -
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Q&A: Should We Worry About DOGE Controlling the U.S. Payment System?

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Fact Check: Did JD Vance say US "military action" available against
Russia?
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Tom Norton is Newsweek's Fact Check reporter, based in London. His
focus is reporting on misinformation and misleading information in
U.S. public life. He has in-depth knowledge of open
source-intelligence research and the global disinformation industry.
Tom joined Newsweek in 2022 from Full Fact and had previously worked
at the Health Service Journal, the Nottingham Post, and the
Advertising Standards Authority. He is a graduate of Liverpool and
Nottingham Trent University. You can get in touch with Tom by emailing
[email protected] or calling 646-887-1107. You can find him on X
@tomsnorton, on Instagram @NortonNewsweek. Languages: English.

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Why Trumps second term agenda is so wildlydifferent from his first
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Theres an overwhelming amount of news, but not enough context. At Vox,
we do things differently. Were not focused on being the first to break
stories were focused on helping you understand what actually matters.
We report urgently on the most important issues shaping our world, and
dedicate time to the issues that the rest of the media often neglects.
But we cant do it alone.

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South Lebanon Villagers Return Home as Israel Withdraws
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DEIR MIMAS, Lebanon Israeli forces withdrew Tuesday from border
villages in southern Lebanon under a deadline spelled out in a
U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that ended the latest
Israel-Hezbollah war, but stayed put in five strategic overlook
locations inside Lebanon.

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How to be fit past 100 without going to the gym, according to 6
centenarians
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If you hate working out but want the life-lengthening benefits of
exercise, you may find it reassuring that many centenarians Business
Insider has spoken with have never set foot in a gym. To some degree,
the type of exercise you do seems to matter less than how often you do
it. Nathan K.

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Mira Murati, OpenAI's Former Chief Technology Officer, Starts Her Own
Company
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The Times reported last year that Ms. Murati had written a private
memo to Mr. Altman in the months before his ouster, raising questions
about his management and sharing the memo with OpenAI’s board. A
lawyer for Ms. Murati denied the claims at the time.

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Trump's Rift With Europe Adds Fuel to a Rally in Defense Stocks
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Europe was already bracing for a bruising trade war precipitated by
Mr. Trump. Tariffs are seen as keeping the region in a low-growth rut.
They could also drive a wedge between E.U. members, especially if
America plays favorites with ideological allies, said Alessandro
Penati, an economist and the president and founder of Quaestio Capital
Management, an asset management company.

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Elon Musk Zeroes In on the I.R.S.
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Separately, the top official of the Social Security Administration,
Michelle King, resigned after Musk’s team sought access to an
internal database that contains personal information about Americans.

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USAID Climate Programs Fighting Extremism and Unrest Are Closing Down
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Some U.S.A.I.D. funding supported mediation programs to prevent local
clashes over land or water. For instance, as the rains become erratic
in the Sahel region of Africa, bordering the Sahara, clashes between
farmers and cattle herders become more frequent.

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Tesla's law firm drafts Delaware bill that could salvage Musk pay
package
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"Delaware has taken some heat for supposedly being too hard on
controller transactions," said Renee Zaytsev, partner at Boies
Schiller and co-chair of the firm's securities and shareholder dispute
practice. 

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Trump administration keeps Biden's tough rules for merger reviews
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"The FTC has limited resources," Ferguson wrote. "Rewriting guidelines
after every election would be expensive and time-consuming. It would
also be destabilizing. Enforcement agencies should avoid a wholesale
change in guidelines with every new administration," he wrote.

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Art Adviser. Friend. Thief.
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But out of all her transgressions, she seemed most ashamed of the
glamour that gilded her crimes. Darting around in chartered
helicopters and regularly burning through tens of thousands of dollars
in shopping sprees at luxury stores, she said, like Loewe in Paris,
wasn’t even fun.

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Tennessee serial killer who referred to himself as Michael Myers gets
261 years
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A self-professed killer who confessed to three murders after being
convicted of killing his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn baby in
2020 has been sentenced to 261 years in prison, West Tennessee
prosecutors said.

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Meta just scheduled a generative AI conference called LlamaCon for
April 29
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According to TechCrunch, Meta has been scrambling to figure out how AI
rival DeepSeek has managed to create tech that rivals its own at a
fraction of the development cost. The report suggests that
DeepSeek’s upcoming models could outperform the aforementioned Llama
4. The company’s also currently embroiled in a lawsuit that accuses
it of training Llama models on copyrighted book materials without
permission.

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Acer to raise prices by 10 percent following President Trump's tariffs
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Time will tell if all items increase in price next month or only
recently imported devices. Chen also shared that the company is
considering moving some of its manufacturing to other countries,
including the US.

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Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered
by AI | TechCrunch
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Before TechCrunch, Ingrid worked at paidContent.org, where she was a
staff writer, and has in the past also written freelance regularly for
other publications such as the Financial Times. Ingrid covers mobile,
digital media, advertising and the spaces where these intersect.

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Andrew Tates alleged victims urge US to stay out of Romanian criminal
proceedings
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In November, Tristan Tate touted the brother's influence on the US
election, posting on X: "Millions of young men in Europe and the USA
have a healthy rightwing approach to politics that they would not have
if Andrew Tate had never appeared on their phone screens. His role in
this cannot be overlooked."

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Venomous attacks on attorney general undermining rule of law, say UK
lawyers
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Letter to Guardian accuses Richard Hermer's critics of damaging public
trust in the legal system

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Trump threatens 25% tariffs on foreign cars and semiconductor chips
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Executives have cautioned that the administration’s plan for tariffs
risks harming the US economy. A 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada
“will blow a hole in the US industry that we have never seen”, Jim
Farley, the Ford CEO, told an investor conference in New York last
week.

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Trump would boost proud US ice hockey team at Canada game, says GM
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"I think there was a little bit of a political flare to it. It's just
the time that we're in," Guerin said. "If you let it get the better of
you, then you're in trouble. But I do think the players used it as
inspiration." Since his inauguration on 20 January, Trump has attended
the Super Bowl and Nascar's Daytona 500.

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Safe Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever's AI startup, is reportedly
close to raising roughly $1B | TechCrunch
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Safe Superintelligence, which also counts ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel
Levy and former Apple AI projects lead Daniel Gross among its founding
team, has raised money from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and
DST Global. It isn’t generating revenue yet, and doesn’t intend to
sell AI products in the near future.

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Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's new startup |
TechCrunch
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Before OpenAI, Murati spent three years at Tesla as a senior product
manager of the Model X, the automaker’s crossover SUV, during which
Tesla released early versions of Autopilot, its AI-enabled
driver-assistance software. She also was VP of product and engineering
at Leap Motion, a startup building hand- and finger-tracking motion
sensors for PCs.

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Fetii's group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from
Mark Cuban, YC | TechCrunch
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Rebecca Bellan covers transportation for TechCrunch. She’s
interested in all things micromobility, EVs, AVs, smart cities, AI,
sustainability and more. Previously, she covered social media for
Forbes.com, and her work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, The
Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, i-D (Vice) and more.Rebecca
studied journalism and history at Boston University. She has invested
in Ethereum.

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Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers | TechCrunch
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“We were two people, full time, but with some contractors for
various things now and then,” Prilutskiy added. “But we know how
to build things with minimal resources. Because the previous company
was bootstrapped, so we had to find a way for that to work. And we are
replicating the same lean style — but now with funding.”

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Biogen partners with Stoke Therapeutics to sell severe epilepsy drug
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“I got very little sleep [Friday] night. It was just such an
emotional thing for me,” she told STAT’s Anil Oza at the annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in
Boston. “They are numbers to most people, but they are people to me,
who have now lost their jobs and whose talents won’t be used the way
they have been.”

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Pharmalittle: We're reading about the impact of HHS firings, a GSK
vaccine approval, and more
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Thousands of U.S. health agency employees were terminated and told it
was for poor performance, though they'd received strong evaluations

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Could SSRIs protect against infections? A mouse study has hints
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And for more context: The study published one day after one of
President Trump’s latest executive orders establishing a “Make
America Healthy Again Commission,” which, among many other
directives, will “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the
prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors,
antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss
drugs.”

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US seeks to reset tense ties with Russia - WSJ (No paywall)
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RIYADH, Saudi ArabiaThe Trump administration is trying to reset
Washingtons tense relations with Moscow and move the Ukraine conflict
toward an end in the highest-profile meeting between the two nations
in years, which has unsettled Americas allies in Europe.

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Wall Street Has Lowest Exposure To Cash Since 2010 As U.S. Stock
Exceptionalism Peaks, Survey Says - Forbes (No paywall)
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Big-money investment portfolio managers are the most optimistic theyve
been in years, according to a monthly Bank of America survey released
Tuesday morning, as borderline ecstasy floods Wall Street, though the
poll revealed a possible trade war concerns investing bigwigs moving
forward.

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New Psychotherapies That Focus on Positive Experiences Could Better
Treat Depression and Anxiety - Scientific American (No paywall)
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Katie, a 40-year-old woman in the county of Devon in England, has
battled depression most of her life. Shes received lots of treatment,
including with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The latter approach
did help, she says. I am prone to catastrophizing, and CBT helped me
reduce those fears and some self-harming behaviors, Katie adds, But I
never felt joy.

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European Leaders Want a Say in Talks to End Russia's War in Ukraine.
the US Is Brushing Them Off
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French President Emmanuel Macron has called leaders from key European
Union nations and the United Kingdom for an emergency meeting Monday.

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The False Promise of Strategic Bombing - Foreign Affairs (No paywall)
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