Anthropic rejects latest US Pentagon offer: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’ ~tech Article 61 votes
Texans love Big Bend for its wildness. Donald Trump wants to put a wall through it. ~enviro conservation Link 16 votes
A nationwide LGBTQ+ book ban bill for public schools has been introduced in the US House of Representatives ~books Article 685 words 33 votes
European Parliament votes overwhelmingly for "the full recognition of trans women as women" ~lgbt transgender Article 741 words 29 votes
Opinion piece: I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day. ~life.women Article 1376 words 66 votes
Sweden has been part of the EU for thirty years, yet is one of the few to have kept their own currency – could global tensions finally see them warming towards the euro ~finance economics Article 879 words 6 votes
Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros bad for America, GOP attorneys general tell Feds ~movies Article 616 words 16 votes
Orbital space race heats up in Arctic north – Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up ~space rocketry Article 144 words 6 votes
The watchers: how OpenAI, the US government, and Persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds ~tech security.cyber privacy Article 5656 words 25 votes
Stockholm's metro stations really do look this cool in person – let me show you what I saw while visiting the city ~transport Video 22:44 7 votes
Swedes searching for their Colombian mothers forty years after their adoptions – government acknowledges processes were plagued with irregularities, from theft of babies to falsified documents ~life family Article 2941 words 10 votes
Human-driven global warming could cause the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a powerful ocean current system, and throw Iceland into a deep freeze ~enviro climate change Article 2131 words, published Feb 10 2026 18 votes
Moderna won’t run phase III vaccine trials as skepticism grows in US ~health medicine Article 517 words, published Jan 23 2026 22 votes
Europe’s $24 trillion breakup with Visa and Mastercard has begun ~finance business banking Article 1089 words 64 votes
US Food and Drug Administration declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot ~health medicine Article 420 words 30 votes
Economic ideas and policy implementation: Evidence from Malthusian training in British Indian bureaucracy ~humanities.history PDF 10 votes
EU says TikTok faces large fine over "addictive design" ~tech social media Article 340 words 32 votes
US judge allows last of five offshore wind projects halted by Donald Trump to proceed ~enviro energy.renewable Article 395 words 42 votes
How Norway accomplished a near-total electric vehicle transition – almost 100 percent of new cars registered in November were electric ~transport Article 563 words, published Jan 27 2026 27 votes
Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles as Kevin Warsh pick eases US Federal Reserve independence fear ~finance Article 33 votes
Finland looks to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with Australia-style ban on social media ~tech social media Article 1002 words 27 votes
Sweden's ruling class is flirting with the idea of adopting the EU's single currency, seeking safety in numbers to insulate itself against geopolitical tension from both sides of the Atlantic ~finance economics Article 14 votes
Newcastle council is looking into restoring a ferry route between the UK city and Bergen in Norway – it last operated in 2008, when it was cancelled due to rising oil prices ~transport Article 314 words 20 votes
‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-US Immigration and Customs Enforcement messages into crafts ~arts Article 1382 words 8 votes
Gold tops $4,900/oz; silver and platinum extend record‑setting rally ~finance Article 461 words 32 votes
Finland is the undisputed world leader when it comes to icebreakers – Finnish companies have designed 80% of all those currently in operation, and 60% were built at shipyards there ~transport Article 983 words, published Jan 19 2026 26 votes
New California law means big changes for real estate listing photos ~finance business Article 1365 words 16 votes
US Democrats successfully strip all anti-trans riders from final appropriations bills ~lgbt transgender Article 745 words 78 votes
Norway's approach to getting kids reading has much to teach us this year – from government support, to innovation with libraries themselves ~books libraries fiction.young adult Article 561 words 13 votes
A Norwegian rocket launched on 25th January 1995 to study the Northern Lights was mistaken by Russia for an incoming nuclear missile on a direct course to Moscow ~humanities.history Article 1382 words 10 votes
Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products ~transport Article 600 words 37 votes
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s new tool provides drug info the US Food and Drug Administration won’t ~health Article 730 words, published Dec 18 2025 27 votes
Tether freezes $182 million in stablecoins as reports point to heavy crypto use by Venezuela ~finance cryptocurrency Article 926 words 13 votes
The city where free buses changed everything ~transport Article 1223 words, published Jan 1 2026 23 votes
Danish energy company Ørsted said on Friday that it had launched a legal challenge to the US government's suspension of its Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island ~enviro energy.renewable Article 434 words 9 votes
Judge to Texas: You can’t age-gate the entire internet without evidence ~tech internet Article 21 votes