Oval Office Ambush

Oval Office Ambush

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Portugal’s Chega party becomes the main opposition and joins Europe’s far-right surge

Portugal’s Chega party becomes the main opposition and joins Europe’s far-right surge

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s anti-immigration Chega party notched another political gain for Europe’s far right on Wednesday after it was assigned the second-most seats in parliament — meaning it will become the head of the parliamentary opposition to the new government. That shatters the pattern of Portugal’s center-right and center-left mainstream parties alternating between…

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Peter Godfrey-Smith on Alien Intelligences in Our Midst

Peter Godfrey-Smith on Alien Intelligences in Our Midst

In the two-thousands, the philosopher of science Peter Godfrey-Smith began snorkelling off the coast of his native Sydney, where he became captivated by giant cuttlefish. The experience spurred him to explore the subjective experience of cephalopods, the marine invertebrates (including octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid) whose sentience developed on an evolutionary lineage that split off from…

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Police forcibly remove protesters marking 600th day of war from Likud headquarters

Police forcibly remove protesters marking 600th day of war from Likud headquarters

Protestors project the words “Qatari Embassy in Israel” onto the side of the Likud headquarters, alluding to the alleged payoffs from the Qatari government to government aides. Israel Police began forcibly evacuating protesters who had entered the Likud headquarters (Metzudat Ze’ev) in Tel Aviv, tied themselves in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, and…

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The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture

The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture

On the morning of April 23, 2024, Claudio David Balcane González, a twenty-six-year-old musician from the state of Aragua, in Venezuela, arrived at the Texas border. In the previous three months, he had travelled through nine countries, before securing an appointment with officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through CBP One, an initiative…

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Hamas Leader Mohammed Sinwar Killed, Netanyahu Says

Hamas Leader Mohammed Sinwar Killed, Netanyahu Says

The European Hospital, pictured in July 2024. Israel says that Sinwar was killed during an airstrike on the hospital on May 13. Credit – Anas Zeyad Fteha—Getty Images Hamas’s de facto leader in Gaza, Mohammed Sinwar, was killed during a recent airstrike, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said on Wednesday. Netanyahu previously said last week that…

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