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- Trumps anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car As President Donald Trump sees it, environmental regulations that attempt to improve efficiency and address climate change only make products more expensive and perform worse. He has long blamed effic...
- Rise of the porno-trolls: how one porn platform made millions suing its viewers <p>A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privately</p><p>When 73-year-old Tom Brown*,<str...
- Alls Fair review Kim Kardashians divorce drama is fascinatingly, existentially terrible <p>Not even Glenn Close can save this Ryan Murphy disaster from its dismal plots, clueless characters and the worst kissing scenes ever filmed</p><p>I did not know it was still possible to make televi...
- Forget petty bribes, state capture is corruption so deep it is shaping the rules of democracy itself | Kenneth Mohammed <p>Beating the dangerous influence of private interests on governments requires independent judges, journalists and a courageous civil society</p><p>A global youth revolt is shaking the foundations of...
- I spent four weeks as a Traitor in my office and almost lost my mind | Ed Campbell <p>After a colleague had the bright idea of a workplace version of the hit BBC show, I lied and cheated with impunity. Then the strain began to show</p><p>There arent many people who understand the st...
- California father who killed his baby son sentenced to more than 30 years in prison <p>Jake Haro and his wife had reported the baby kidnapped outside a store, drawing widespread attention and a public search</p><p>A southern <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">Ca...
- Galapagos had no native amphibians. Then it was invaded by hundreds of thousands of frogs <p>Scientists are only beginning to grasp the scale of the issue and understand what impact the tree frogs may have on the islands rare wildlife</p><p>On the way to her office at the Charles Darwin re...
- Football Manager 26 review a modern sim for the modern game <p><strong>Sports Interactive; PC (version tested), PS5, Switch, Xbox<br /></strong>After a two-year wait, Football Manager 26 upgrades every aspect of the football sim, but it may take some getting u...
- The mind-boggling valuations of AI companies <p>You try wrapping your head around a string of deals worth nearly $600bn</p><p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Im your host, Blake Montgomery. If you like reading our newsletter, forward this email...
- Tell us: are you a UK centenarian or do you know one? <p>We would like to hear from centenarians, their family and friends</p><p>The number of centenarians (aged 100 years and over) in the UK has doubled from 8,300 in 2004 to 16,600 in 2024, <a href="htt...
- How Trumps DOJ Wiped Out a Pioneering Anti-Violence Nonprofit One Tuesday night in April, Mikaela Levons, head of development at Equal Justice USA (EJUSA), a criminal and racial justice nonprofit, had just wrapped up a phone call and was preparing to cook dinner...
- Report: ICE Shot a US Citizen Trying to Help Kids For the second time in a little over a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers reportedly shot someone in Los Angeles, California. This time, it was a US citizen who ICE officers shot...
- Tommy Robinson Acquitted of 'Terrorism' Charge over Refusing to Give Phone Password to Interrogating Police Officer <p>Veteran street organiser Tommy Robinson acquitted of terrorism charge over refusing to give police the access code to his mobile phone. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...
- Trump has free rein to kill, courtesy of the Justice Department The Office of Legal Counsel is rubber-stamping extrajudicial killings in Latin America...
- Former Vice President Cheney, architect of Iraq War, dies at 84 <p>Former Vice President Dick <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/01/06/dick-cheney-gop-leadership-diappointed-capitol-riot" target="_blank">Cheney</a>, 84, died Monday from complications of pneumonia...
- Dick Cheney's life in photos <p>From a Republican stalwart who redefined the vice presidency to an <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/08/04/dick-cheney-trump-coward-campaign-ad-liz-cheney" target="_blank">outspoken MAGA opponent...
- Documents reveal chaos and confusion behind government shutdown layoffs <p>Layoffs are never a painless exercise, but the Trump administration's <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/10/trump-officials-federal-layoffs" target="_blank">effort to fire federal workers</a> w...
- Homicides keep plunging in Trump's "hellhole" cities <p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/cities-homicide-rates-fall-2024" target="_blank">Homicide</a> rates continued to decline in major U.S. cities by more than 40% in some communities during t...
- MLB's 2025 ratings resurgence <div>Data: Axios research, Nielsen; Note: Viewership numbers for Game 7 of the 2025 World Series are preliminary; Chart: Axios Visuals</div><p>At least 25 million people tuned into the final game of t...
- Layoffs are leading to a new human gig economy for AI <p>As <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/amazon-layoffs-ai-andy-jassy" target="_blank">layoffs</a> mount, training AI is becoming a lucrative new side hustle even if it means helping build the ...