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Republicans return to Washington to sift through wreckage of midterms rout
With weeks left on the congressional calendar, House and Senate representatives have a host of issues they still need to tackle
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Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have an Israel problem – Stateside with Kai and Carter
For years, there have been calls for the Democrats to change their stance on Israel. Now those calls are coming from their own newly elected members of Congress. Kai Wright speaks to Moustafa Bayoumi about why the fight over Israel in the Democratic party is only just beginning
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International
Learn from my mistake – don’t fall for this new mobile phone scam
The warning signs were all there, but I blithely scanned the QR code without a second thought, writes Zoe Williams
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International
We have a new shadow president – and he can play Trump like a fiddle
Stephen Miller is an ideologue on a mission to reshape the world. But his appointment has a silver lining for Democrats
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International
Traces of Justice review – ‘Chinese Sherlock Holmes’ at centre of arresting forensic cop thriller
Based on real scientist Cui Daozhi, this sharp feature has thumping set pieces and knotty puzzles set across 30 years of gripping cases
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Military
ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need | Robin Kirman
What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it’s a reliable sense of their own minds In August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode – a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled – a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine. For years, the tech industry has contested any causal link between its products and the harms named in a wave of similar lawsuits, each alleging that the companies had not merely failed to protect children but had deliberately designed products to exploit them. C
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International
‘We said no, no, no, but they kept insisting’: the Paraguayan people battling a eucalyptus empire
It is Paraguay’s largest private investment but local people accuse a forestry giant of ignoring their contamination concerns over its vast plantation
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Crypto
Ethereum – Will ETH’s $432M liquidation shock put $2K support at risk?
Ethereum saw its largest liquidation volume since mid-August earlier this week when it dipped from $2,246 to $2,060.
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Crypto
Re Protocol Tops $400M in Deposits as Onchain Reinsurance Yield Attracts Capital
Re Protocol says deposits across its reUSD and reUSDe products have exceeded $400 million, putting a relatively unfamiliar type of real-world asset exposure into the spotlight: insurance and reinsurance. Its November 4 announcement says the latest…
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International
China touts tech, AI cred at world Web Summit
China is flexing its technological muscles at the global Web Summit in Lisbon from Tuesday, showcasing dancing robots and low-cost artificial intelligence models as Beijing weathers claims that it spied…
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International
Banking crisis in Paraguay: almost half of the population deprived of their money
The new president of Paraguay, Pedro Alliana, asked all the country's ministers and senior officials to resign on Monday, November 9, as part of a vast reshuffle after the fall of his predecessor Santiago Peña. The country announced that it had launched steps with the United States, Luxembourg and Argentina to find the funds embezzled in the banking scandal that caused the dismissal of its predecessor.
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International
Russia and Ukraine hold nearly 4 hours of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi
Hopes of progress in ending Europe's biggest conflict since World War II are tempered by the absence of any significant breakthroughs in three previous rounds of talks early this year.
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