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Escalatorgate: Trump alleges triple sabotage after technical mishaps
at UN
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In his lengthy post on Wednesday afternoon, Trump pointed to a report
in the Times of London newspaper on Sunday saying that UN staff
members had joked that they would turn off the escalators and "tell
him they ran out of money" - a jab at the sweeping US funding cuts.

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Sam Altman and David Deutsch Agree to a New Turing Test for AGI -
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For decades, experts have debated how to tell when machines cross into
true intelligence. On Wednesday in Berlin, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and
British physicist David Deutsch agreed on a new benchmark: If an AI
could crack quantum gravity -- and explain why -- that might be enough
to call it human-level smart.

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Donald Trump pledges to prevent Israeli annexation of the occupied
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US President Donald Trump has promised Arab and Muslim leaders that he
will not allow Israel to annex the occupied West Bank, a move Benjamin
Netanyahu's government is considering in response to a number of
countries formally recognising a Palestinian state this week.Trump
made the pledge on Wednesday at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN
General Assembly in New York, where Arab and Muslim leaders expressed
their growing alarm at Israel's actions across the Middle East and
pressed him to rein in Netanyahu and help end the war in Gaza.

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US debt investors raise alarm over lending standards - FT
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US debt investors have raised the alarm over lax lending standards in
credit markets after the unravelling of two companies that just weeks
ago were deemed to be in strong health.The failure of subprime auto
lender Tricolor Holdings at the start of this month followed by the
exploration of bankruptcy proceedings by car parts supplier First
Brands Group have wrongfooted investors.Tricolor had won pristine
triple-A ratings as it borrowed in credit markets, while First Brands
may have amassed as much as $10bn in debt and off-balance sheet
financing and was close to raising even more last month.







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Top Federal Reserve official warns against quick series of rate cuts -
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A top Federal Reserve official has warned against rushing towards a
series of rate cuts, saying a sharp slowdown in the jobs market is not
a sign that a recession is looming.Austan Goolsbee backed the
quarter-point reduction to US borrowing costs at last week's Federal
Open Market Committee meeting. But the Chicago Fed president told the
Financial Times that he could be less willing to support further cuts
at forthcoming policy votes.

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Delta replaces engine units in effort to address toxic-fume surge on
planes - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=237072&nl=daily]
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A Delta Airbus A320 arriving in Los Angeles earlier this year.Delta
Air Lines is replacing power units on more than 300 of its Airbus jets
in an effort to stem cases in which toxic fumes have leaked into the
air supply and led to health and safety risks for passengers and
crew.The move is one of the most aggressive efforts by a major U.S.
airline to address what in recent years has increasingly become a
hidden hazard of modern air travel.

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Your age shouldn't put you off learning a new language - what the
research says
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There is no age limit to our ability to learn a new language.

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Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work?
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Wharton management professor Lindsey Cameron looks at Uber's pilot
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Neuroscience finds musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us
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Can musical training rewire the brain to resist pain?

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Ukraine war briefing: Trump 'growing incredibly impatient' with Russia
over war, warns Vance
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US vice-president says if Moscow doesn't negotiate in good faith it
will be 'very, very bad for their country' as Zelenskyy appeals to
world leaders to stop Putin. What we know on day 1,310

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Google to GOP: Biden pushed us to remove Covid misinfo o The Register
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: It's all Biden's fault, Chocolate Factory claims

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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived -
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Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no
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Even light alcohol drinking raises dementia risk, according to largest
genetic study to date
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Findings from the largest study of its kind suggest that alcohol
consumption--regardless of amount--may increase the risk of dementia.
Genetic data challenge the idea that moderate drinking offers any
protective effect on brain health.

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Is cashless bail leading to spikes in jail population? A suburban
sheriff says yes
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Kane County officials are calling out what they say is an unintended
impact from Illinois' cashless bail system.

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Stop blaming yourself for your expanding waistline. The food supply is
working against you, expert says | CNN
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A leading nutrition researcher overturns nutritional myths that have
led to fat-shaming in his new book, "Food Intelligence." Here's who to
blame instead.

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Sam Altman's AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and
San Diego combined. Experts say it's 'scary' | Fortune
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Andrew Chien told Fortune he's been a computer scientist for 40 years
but we're close to "some seminal moments for how we think about AI and
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Start-up Modular raises $250mn to challenge Nvidia's software
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A team of Silicon Valley veterans who previously worked at Apple and
Google has raised $250mn to challenge Nvidia's dominance of the
software tools used to programme artificial intelligence chips.Palo
Alto-based Modular, which is building an alternative to Nvidia's Cuda
software that has been vital to keeping customers locked to the
chipmaker's AI products, announced it has received the new investment
at a $1.6bn valuation on Wednesday.

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Former GSA employees receive reinstatement offers
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Hundreds of General Services Administration (GSA) employees laid off
earlier this year have received offers to return, The Associated Press
reported Tuesday. The former employees have until the end of this week
to accept the offer from GSA, and would restart work at the agency on
Oct. 6. The GSA constructs, manages and preserves government...

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How to use nature to restore your focus: Big Brains podcast with Marc
Berman | University of Chicago News
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Psychologist explains how trees boost your attention, improve mental
health--and even reduce crime

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Europe has a Russian drone problem. Here are ways it could be solved
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Estonia is extending a fence along its border with Russia and building
anti-tank ditches and bunkers in preparation for a potential conflict
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A Reporter Focused Attention on Velazquez's 'Las Meninas' for 3 Hours
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For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours
with an artwork. A reporter tried this "immersive attention"
experiment with a Velazquez masterpiece.

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Owners of Radio Shack, Pier 1 Imports and other brands accused of
running $112 million Ponzi scheme
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The buyers of distressed brick-and-mortar companies like RadioShack
and Modell's Sporting Goods, are accused of running a Ponzi scheme.

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Viral parking ticket app lasts just 4 hours as city kills project
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What appeared to be a promising tool to help San Franciscans avoid
citations was quickly defanged.

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Australia asks GitHub if it's a dangerous social network o The
Register
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: As ban on under-16s using some sites looms, cyber-safety regulator
sends Microsoft's code locker a letter

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Why British bond yields are higher than elsewhere - The Economist
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Rachel Reeves could be forgiven for dreading Labour's party conference
in Liverpool, which kicks off on September 28th. MPs will lobby the
chancellor for money in November's budget. Sweaty-palmed lobbyists
will ply her over cheap prosecco, pleading against tax rises. But the
crowd that most scares Ms Reeves will not be physically present at
all. Bond traders will monitor events from afar, ready to push yields
ever higher at the mere hint of fiscal profligacy.

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Jimmy Kimmel's Comeback Show Reached 6.26 Million Viewers: Disney -
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Jimmy Kimmel's return to late-night reached 6.2 million viewers on
broadcast, despite not reaching nearly a quarter of ABC affiliates,
according to a statement from Disney, ABC's parent company.Disney
cited Nielsen Preliminary Fast National Live+Same Day Program Ratings
for Tuesday.

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Will Dubai's super-hot property market avoid a crash? - The Economist
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It is difficult, in Dubai, to avoid the enthusiasm for property. Not a
day goes by without the announcement of a new development. Home
advertisements are plastered across billboards. The ever-expanding
urban sprawl and skyline betray the heady activity. So does the
traffic. New arrivals raise prices, and clog the roads.According to
Deutsche Bank, the price per square metre of a flat in the heart of
the city has risen by 122% over the past five years--second only to
Riyadh in the 69 urban areas tracked by the bank.

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Instagram As You Knew It Is Dead. Get Over It. - Business Insider
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Instagram is becoming even more Reels-centric with a new home screen
navigation, cementing its shift away from being a place to post
personal photos for friends.You might not like this. But we'll get
through it.It's OK to mourn an app that you once loved. People miss
MySpace and old Tumblr. I still believe GroupMe was the best group
messaging app I've ever used. Embarrassing to admit it, but I still
miss old Twitter.

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Trump's H-1B Overhaul Could Kneecap Startups in the Talent Wars -
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For US startups, the past few days have felt like whiplash. President
Donald Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee threw founders and their employees
into chaos, and a fresh proposal to overhaul the visa lottery has left
founders fearing they can't compete with deep-pocketed Big Tech
companies for talent. Now, some young companies have frozen hiring as
they scramble for clarity."We had an employee who's been approved for
H-1B, but he's abroad, so we were very scared for him," Aizada Marat,
founder and CEO of Alma, a legal tech startup that advises startups on
visa issues, told Business Insider. "He was supposed to fly in, and we
said, 'Let's pause everything, let's get more clarification.'"

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Xi sets out conservative climate goal for China over next decade - FT
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China will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 10 per cent and
increase renewable energy capacity six-fold within a decade, President
Xi Jinping announced in a new climate plan, along with a thinly veiled
swipe at the US.The climate goal was described as "both underwhelming
and transformative", with experts having hoped that the world's
largest emitter and second-biggest economy would set a target at least
in the mid-teens.

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US shale bosses decry 'chaos' in Trump administration's energy policy
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Donald Trump's tariffs and drive to slash oil prices are "kneecapping"
the US shale sector, chilling investment and risking reprisal against
the industry, executives have warned.Immediately after entering the
White House, the president declared a "national energy emergency",
pledging to "drill, baby, drill" and pass on lower energy costs for
consumers.But bosses told a survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas that the administrations's support for low prices, levies on
crucial goods and chaotic decision-making is scaring off investors and
increasing costs. The report is often a source of surprisingly frank
assessments of US energy policy because executives are allowed to
provide responses anonymously.

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Inside the White House struggle to tame the Epstein crisis - WSJ
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President Trump had reached his limit.It was mid-July, and some of his
longtime allies were whipping up the audience at a conference in Tampa
by complaining that his administration wasn't delivering the real
story on Jeffrey Epstein, as his aides had promised."How many of you
are satisfied--you can clap--with the results of the Epstein
investigation?" Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked on the first day of
the event organized by Turning Point USA, the group co-founded by
Charlie Kirk. The crowd erupted in boos and shouts of "not satisfied."

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Democratic Report Says Disorder at DOGE Jeopardized Americans' Data
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Members of a Senate panel described a haphazard working and living
environment that involved transferring sensitive information to
servers “without any verified security controls.”

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Were You Assigned Full Books to Read in High School English? Tell Us.
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We’re asking because the reading scores of American 12th graders are
at record lows.

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Dallas ICE Facility Shooting Leaves One Detainee Dead and Two Injured
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The shooter, who killed himself, also wounded two detainees in an
attack that raised new fears about political violence in the United
States.

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UK drug price rises 'necessary', says Lord Patrick Vallance
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"There's an intersection between the growth ambitions of the
government, the health ambitions of the government, the trade
ambitions of the government and bilateral relations with the US," he
added.

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Princess Awesome vs. the United States of America
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A children’s clothing company has become the face of a legal battle
over President Trump’s trade policy, after years of struggling with
the challenges of domestic manufacturing.

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Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to
record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms
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A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users
for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

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Trump shock spurs Japan to think about the unthinkable: nuclear arms
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In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the
reliability of long-time American security guarantees - whether the
U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been
turbo-charged by Donald Trump's tough treatment of traditional U.S.
allies, which has some in Tokyo and Seoul calling for a reassessment
of their non-nuclear policies.

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Australian kindergarten asks parents to pay thousands for their
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The debt-ridden centre said the money would go towards paying overdue
bills.

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How Did Sports Betting Become Legal in the US?
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In 2018, the Supreme Court repealed a 26-year federal ban on sports
betting. This ruling unleashed the biggest gambling boom in America's
249-year history. How did that happen?

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Tunnel vision: how Israel is using archaeology to win US support for
goals
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In fact, the artefacts were from multiple periods, connected to
multiple civilisations and faiths. "It is an odd characterisation,"
Arad said. "I don't know what the motivation of Cogat was. I can only
assume that it is because Israel is still attempting to maintain its
foreign relations with the Christian evangelist church in the United
States."

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Co-op says malicious cyber-attack has hit profits by 80m
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Retailer says it needs to focus on weaknesses in food business that
led to gaps on shelves in its stores

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Fixing the rot in Ukraine - The Economist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=237072&nl=daily]
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EVERY TIME Volodymyr Zelensky meets Donald Trump, Ukraine's friends
hold their breath. Will America's president choose to be Ukraine's
supporter or its scold? When the two men saw each other in New York on
September 23rd, Mr Trump was widely presumed to have shifted his
support towards Ukraine. He later urged it to recapture all the
territory it has lost to Russia. In fact, he was more likely to have
been washing his hands of the war. If so, Ukraine and its European
allies will have to withstand Russia alone.

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A new mega-earthquake hotspot could be forming beneath the Atlantic |
BBC Science Focus Magazine
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Mysterious earthquakes in the region have long gone unexplained. Now
scientists say they've figured out what's happening beneath the
surface.

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What We Know About the Shooting at a Dallas ICE Facility
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One detainee was killed and two others were wounded after a gunman
opened fire on Wednesday. The gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound.

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Son of Mother Killed by Geoffrey West Urges Alabama to Halt Execution
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William Berry has urged Alabama officials to stop the execution of
Geoffrey West, arguing that it would bring neither justice nor
closure.

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Video: How Trump Twists Data to His Benefit
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To President Trump, the veracity of statistics and scorekeepers turns
on a dime. Linda Qiu, a New York Times reporter, explains Trump’s
approach to government data.

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How One Man Is Working to Solve Los Angeles's Homelessness Problem on
His Own
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For years, John Alle complained to Los Angeles officials about
homelessness. Now, fed up, he’s trying to make a dent in the problem
on his own.

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What Declines in Reading and Math Mean for the U.S. Work Force
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U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who
are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have
failed.

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