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How to understand Xi Jingping: as the builder of "a high-tech apparatus of incentives and coercion" designed to maintain party control. / The EconomistAfter a turbulent week for UK...
Hear intercepted calls from Russian soldiers describing battlefield disasters and war crimes. (Content warning.) / The New York Times Claiming occupied areas of Ukraine voted in favor of the...
Floods along Nigeria's borders with Niger, Chad, and Cameroon kill hundreds and leave tens of thousands homeless. / Foreign PolicyIranian women abroad are watching the ongoing protests "with...
Areas in Cuba are evacuating and Florida prepares as Hurricane Ian gains strength. / NBC News According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness...
Global banks seek to manage exposures in China, considering tensions over Taiwan. / Bloomberg, USA TodayFar-right leader Giorgia Meloni claims victory in Italy's election, and is on course...
The White House is sending private warnings to Moscow against using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine. / The Washington PostIn 2020 and 2021, 109 soldiers assigned to Fort Bragg lost their lives,...
Protests in Iran over the death of a young woman in police custody spread to more than a dozen cities, as shutdowns take effect to disrupt mobile internet and social...
Security forces in Russia detain more than 1,300 people at protests denouncing Putin's mobilization. / The GuardianRussian men explain how they're trying to resist Putin's call-up...
One-way flights out of Russia sell out as Putin mobilizes 300,000 reservists. / Reuters In what Ukraine and Western leaders are calling a sham referendum, Russian-controlled regions in Ukraine are...
President Biden says the pandemic is over. Whether or not it was a gaffe, his health advisors seek to clarify. / Politico Helen Branswell: Reaching the end of a...
Citing concerns over authoritarianism and money mismanagement, the EU's executive branch recommends suspending funding to Hungary. / ABC News Russia looks to tighten its "comprehensive partnership and strategic...
A Venezuelan migrant says he was paid $200 to recruit people in San Antonio to go to Florida, where they were then flown to Martha's Vineyard. / San Antonio...
The weather phenomenon La Niña has formed for the third consecutive year in the Pacific. / BBC NewsWhat La Niña is, how it forms, and...
Railroads and union representatives reach a tentative labor agreement, averting a rail strike that could have sent the US economy into a tailspin. / The New York Times, Associated...
Ed Yong: Brain fog, one of Long Covid's worst symptoms, leaves people struggling with minds "that are less nimble than before." / The AtlanticChina's zero-Covid policy is...
The Justice Dept. approves one of Trump's special master candidates—and escalates its Jan. 6 investigation, issuing around 40 subpoenas in the past week. / The Washington Post, NBC...
"They asked, in Ukrainian, 'is anyone alive?'" New momentum in the biggest war in Europe since WWII. / BBC NewsA new report says an estimated 50 million people are victims...
Luke Mogelson looks at how MAGA Republicans have leaped from "backing the blue" to attacking law-enforcement officials. / The New YorkerA review of what your leaders in Washington worked...
CIA director on Putin's war: "There is going to be long-term damage done to the Russian economy and to generations of Russians." / The Guardian An elected county...
Ukraine's president says his troops have recaptured several settlements from Russian forces. / BBC NewsFrance's dearth of Dijon mustard isn't about the war in Ukraine so...
Among the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago were documents so highly classified that they required authorized clearance on a need-to-know basis. / The Washington Post For the first time, a...
Liz Truss becomes the UK's prime minister with seeming plans to spend $116 billion to freeze household energy bills. / Reuters Related: Russia's weaponization of its energy...
We'll be off for Labor Day on Monday, and will see you again on Tuesday! Dictators have long used various methods to manipulate public opinion, and AI may become...
The UN's outgoing human rights commissioner says China may have committed crimes against humanity by abusing Uyghur Muslims. / BBC NewsThe US imposes new restrictions on sales of...
In its steepest decline in almost a century, US life expectancy has dropped sharply over the past two years. / STAT The latest national test results among American schoolchildren...