Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panels
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Keira is one of many Greenlandic families living on the Danish mainland who are fighting to get their children returned to them after they were removed by social services
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Denmark's climate minister, Lars Aagaard, announced that his government would submit a binding target to cut emissions by 82% by 2035 compared with 1990 levels
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New York City Council pushes to legalize bodega cats, giving them ‘purr-fect’ legal status
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Denmark's drive to conscript teenage girls – as the threat from Russia increases, it is no longer only young men who are being called to serve
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How Norway jeopardised its integrity overnight – Oslo abruptly changed the ethics rules for the world's largest sovereign wealth fund
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Swedish parliament votes to allow uranium mining – now classed as a concession mineral, especially useful for society
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Danish government has reached an agreement to implement a minimum age requirement of fifteen years old on certain social media platforms
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US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown
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The cost of borrowing divides rich towns from poor ones
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Donald Trump AI advisor David Sacks says ‘no federal bailout for AI’ after OpenAI CFO’s suggestion of US federal government backstop
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Hamlet rages in Stockholm against political closure of a cultural institution – government funding freezes have resulted in a real terms decrease of £4M per year since 2017 for theatre Dramaten
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In the early 1990s, Sweden faced one of the worst economic crises in its modern history – the lessons for other countries, especially France, deep in its own budget crisis, are simple, if not easy
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California lets residents opt-out of a ton of data collection on the web
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Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
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After more than a century of various proposals and planning, Norway has once again officially abandoned the ambitious Stad Ship Tunnel project
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Helsinki is turning to drones and artificial intelligence to help tackle one of the city's trickiest challenges - keeping traffic moving smoothly
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California passes law banning extra loud commercials on streaming services
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Burbank Airport resumes flights after hours with no air traffic controllers amid government shutdown
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US State Attorneys Generals defend trans Americans in letter to Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission
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British Columbia Premier David Eby announces new Prince George, Surrey involuntary care facilities
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How Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave – traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
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Somerville has a new cat mayor: Meet Minerva
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Young Greenlandic woman living in Denmark will regain custody of the infant girl taken from her shortly after birth – becomes the latest flashpoint between Denmark and Greenland
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How Denmark plans to roll out the world's first cow burp tax – government is investing billions in technologies to help farmers cut livestock emissions
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The nVidia AI GPU black market: investigating smuggling, corruption, and governments
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Bluesky will comply with age verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi
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Nepal blocks Facebook, X, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government
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ReTuna shopping mall in Sweden is the first in the world to sell only secondhand and repurposed items – established in 2015, it's a municipality-led experiment in circular consumption
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Denmark's PM Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to the Greenlandic women and their families affected by what she called "systematic discrimination" during a contraceptive campaign
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Gavin Newsom, California lawmakers strike deal that would allow Uber, Lyft drivers to unionize
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Denmark has proposed scrapping its tax on chocolate, cake and other sweets, as well as coffee, to help consumers cope with high food prices
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US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B
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Bluesky will block Mississippi IP addresses in response to its age assurance law
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The Finnish capital Helsinki went a whole year without a traffic fatality. Data-driven city planning helped.
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US Supreme Court allows Mississippi social media age verification law to go into effect
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Brazil's publicly funded payment system is pretty cool
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A contentious book argues that endless oil revenue and a sovereign wealth fund are making Norway increasingly bloated, unproductive and unhealthy
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Foreign couples flock to Denmark to get married. Copenhagen wants to save room for locals.
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Why free buses in New York City could backfire horribly
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Malaysia no longer takes US plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California
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A huge fight looms over the NASA budget this fall
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Why is the world's most powerful quantum computer being built in Denmark? Atom Computing and Microsoft working at backend to set up computer.
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What's next for public television and radio in the US after Republicans strip funding?
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Transit passes are better but free fares are good too
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Nebraska sues neighboring Colorado over how much water it’s drawing from the South Platte River
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A company tried to put real estate on the Blockchain and now it's facing a lawsuit from the city of Detroit
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Google Wallet adds age verification and more government ID support
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Calgary brings fluoride back to its drinking water
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Gothenburg's experience with congestion pricing has been notably less triumphant – a cautionary tale about tolling downtown drivers
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