Norway's Arbeiderpartiet under Jonas Gahr Støre has won a second term in general elections, ahead of a populist right-wing party that doubled its vote
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Protest at Austin City Hall after not being allowed to speak [at hearing on surveillance cameras]
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Full text of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's speech on reported Donald Trump military plan for Chicago
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UK has secured a £10bn deal to supply the Norwegian navy with at least five new warships
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The intertwined history of single-room occupancy and homelessness in the US
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After Xi Jinping: The succession question obscuring China's future - and unsettling its present
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A Palo Alto scientist's $10M plan to kill California redistricting
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In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide?
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California is moving forward with a partisan redistricting effort to counter Texas’ move
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Planning documents for the US Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit left in the hotel's business center
43 votes -
US President Donald Trump orders federal takeover of DC police, deploys National Guard
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US President Donald Trump freezes $300 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism
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New SNAP rules explained: Six more US states restrict purchases of processed 'junk' foods
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Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has come under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion in his role running the country
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How US schools deny advanced math to their highest-scoring students
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down after Donald Trump-led cancellation of US federal funding
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Could Iceland join the EU? Reykjavík eyes accession talks as security, trade tensions mount.
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Donald Trump administration moves to release billions in US federal education cash
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Computational tyranny
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US government employee banned from leaving China
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Japan’s PM Shigeru Ishiba vows to stay on despite ruling coalition’s loss in upper house election
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The state birds are garbage (2021)
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Kansas City poured millions into a grocery store. It still may close.
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US Senate approves rescission bill clawing back money previously allocated to public broadcasting and foreign aid
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Data manipulation within the US Federal government
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Norway has significantly reduced the number of people experiencing homelessness. What could other countries learn from its example?
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An “anti-government militia” called ‘Veterans on Patrol’ is “targeting” Oklahoma weather radars because they believe the radars control the weather
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How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
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What can we learn from Estonia?
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California rolls back its landmark environmental law
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Donald Trump administration sues Maryland federal judges over order blocking deportations
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Suspect in Minnesota attacks is detained, ending manhunt
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Hank Green on the Los Angeles protests -- video ends with constructive ideas on how to fight back
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These publicly funded homes for the poor in Washington, DC cost $1.2 million each to build
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Estonia will lease space at Tartu Prison to Sweden and accept up to 600 inmates under a new agreement – sparks fears of imported organised crime
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The right-wing Dutch cabinet has fallen
I do not have an English source yet, but there are two Dutch liveblogs: https://nos.nl/liveblog/2569753-pvv-stapt-uit-de-coalitie-vvd-nsc-en-bbb-reageren-vol-onbegrip...
I do not have an English source yet, but there are two Dutch liveblogs:
https://nos.nl/liveblog/2569753-pvv-stapt-uit-de-coalitie-vvd-nsc-en-bbb-reageren-vol-onbegrip
It's happened after the far-right PVV wanted to have more measures against migration, which were (in my opinion) unrealistic and inhumane.
This'll most likely mean Dutch snap elections soon.
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Complete ban on international adoptions to Sweden has been proposed by a government-appointed commission which found widespread abuses and fraud
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Bilingual, educated, qualified—and still not welcome in Quebec. As the province seeks to expand on its controversial Bill 21, critics warn of deepening discrimination.
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Nordic governments are boosting defense spending, reassessing security and pushing the concept of total defense – mobilizing the whole of society to defend against military and non-military threats
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A US judge refuses to toss states' lawsuit against Elon Musk and Department of Government Efficiency
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A Texas bill to block abortion pills has died for now
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'It's like a war zone': what happened when Portland decriminalized fentanyl
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Senate overrules parliamentarian and votes to undo California EV rule
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The party is over in the Tenderloin: San Francisco’s most troubled neighborhood has turned a corner. Can it last?
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Norwegian government commissions a committee to investigate causes and possible consequences of falling birthrates, and devise strategies to reverse the current trajectory
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Controversial curriculum changes in Oklahoma: Focus on 2020 election disputes, erasure of George Floyd’s impact, and COVID-19 origin claims
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Hungarian government submits law preparing to crack down on independent press and NGOs
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Newark’s mayor arrested at protest outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center
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New Hampshire becomes first state in US to sign Bitcoin reserve bill into law
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Friedrich Merz’s bid to become Germany’s tenth chancellor fails first ballot by six votes – confirmed in a second vote held on the same day
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