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California billionaire tax proposal faces ballot qualification uncertainty
California’s proposed billionaire tax faces a critical deadline this week. The measure, which would impose a one-time levy on the…
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New York City House primary becomes main front in AI civil strife
The artificial intelligence industry has poured $49 million into the 2026 midterm elections so far, part of a broader push…
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Makerfield Facebook accounts hit by surge in anti-Burnham falsehoods, study shows
Misinformation in local Facebook groups jumped fourfold during the Makerfield by-election campaign, a study by the Social Market Foundation (SMF)…
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UK News
Youngsters hold lasting grudge against Keir Starmer over Turkey Twizzler row
Most Britons support banning social media for under-16s, but they are deeply sceptical it will actually work – a paradox…
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UK Politics
Badenoch pledges to scrap ‘identity politics’ via major changes to equality legislation
Kemi Badenoch will this week outline plans to scrap the legal duty requiring police officers, nurses and teachers to consider…
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Guardian urges curbs on tech giants’ hold over children online
Tech giants Apple and Google have been given until September to install software that blocks nude images on children’s phones,…
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Nesrine Malik calls for defiance as murder used to peddle race and privilege falsehoods
The idea that people of colour have been elevated above white people, accorded privileges that go far beyond mere equality,…
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UK News
Labour to harness AI for workers’ advantage, says Liz Kendall
Labour is determined to ensure that artificial intelligence enhances employment rather than displaces workers, the technology secretary has insisted, as…
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UK Business
Investors’ appetite for risk revives despite global tensions, but where are they putting their cash?
Investors are moving £1.5 billion into equities, signalling renewed market confidence as money begins to flow out of the defensive…
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World News
Big tech’s plan for conscious AI to colonise cosmos questioned by Eduardo Porter
Tech elites are quietly constructing a new religion, one centred on the ambition to transcend the human condition through technology.…
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