Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband testifies about the day she killed their three children: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 68
Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband testifies about the day she killed their three children
Lawyers for Massachusetts mother say she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis amid January 2023 tragedy More than three years after a Massachusetts mother strangled her three young children, her former husband described returning home to the aftermath and a jury listened on…
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 66
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in heated COVID-19 Senate hearing
Physician declines to answer Senate questions as Republicans like Rand Paul accuse him of covering up COVID's origins.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 49
Todd Blanche attorney general nomination on edge as Cornyn questions Trump-IRS settlement
Sen. John Cornyn says the DOJ has failed to satisfy his concerns about a deal to shield President Donald Trump and others from IRS tax audits.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 48
Norwegian teen found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in Iran-linked plot
Prosecutors said Natland had been recruited by the Foxtrot Network, a Swedish organized crime group used by the Iranian state and sanctioned by both Britain and the United States.
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Business & Finance/Europe/Signal 43
Saudi Arabia joins US strikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq
Iran also fired ballistic missiles at US forces in Jordan, ending a days-long pause in direct air strikes
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
From 'better to die' to enlistment: Why haredi draft calculus is shifting
Despite fierce rabbinic opposition, haredi enlistment is rising. The numbers suggest changing incentives may be altering the draft calculus.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
New Iran-related sanctions targeting tankers issued by US Treasury Department
“With its economy in freefall and inflation in the triple digits, the regime is desperate for cash,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Brigitte Bardot-funded campaign targets Israel's live animal shipments
One of Brigitte Bardot's final animal welfare initiatives has reached Israel, with a nationwide campaign opposing the live shipment of calves and lambs.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Yemen's Houthis considering fees for ships sailing through Red Sea, sources say
Yemen's Houthis are considering charging commercial ships to cross Bab el-Mandeb, sources said, after declaring a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Light is Bringing Back the Flip Phone
In a sign that consumer technology has gone too far, for the first time in modern history we're seeing a younger generation pushing back. In the early 20th century, all teenagers dreamt of owning a radio; in the latter half, a (landline) telephone, a TV, a Walkman, a cell phone.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Michael Hilgers' Multifunctional Side Table
This simple design for a multifunctional table is by Berlin-based designer Michael Hilgers. It's two pieces of powder-coated steel and serves as a side table; or, flipped over, it becomes a magazine rack.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Leatherman's Experimental Ratcheting Bit Driver
Leatherman's Garage line is where the company test-markets experimental tools, producing them in small batches. Their latest is the Garage Batch #009 , a ratcheting bit driver that doesn't resemble anything else in their line-up.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
DreamDomes' Elegant, Weather-Resistant Dome-Shaped Event Tents
This elegant Crossover L event tent is by DreamDomes , a UK-based event-structure company. Unlike a pole tent, it requires no central support, and provides uninterrupted floor space. Additionally, the dome shape does a better job handling wind.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Luxury Furniture, or ID Student Project?
In furniture design, there's sometimes an aesthetic and conceptual overlap between high-end minimalist luxury designs and an ID student project. This Fagiolo lounge chair is one of those.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
In much of the world, owning a lakeside home is desirable. But in the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents live within the lake itself, with houses on their own impossibly skinny islands: The unique geography is of course manmade, the result of peat mining.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Gate with an Elegant Integrated Latch
Australian fabricator Jim Semple was hired to design and build a patio railing and gate.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 40
Trees and microbes team up to improve nitrogen nutrient processes in higher CO₂ conditions
Forest trees growing in air containing higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) radically change the way they "cycle" nitrogen, a key plant nutrient, with implications for forests as a nature-based climate solution.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 40
Unique fossil reveals the internal organs of a 245-million-year-old marine reptile
, including Dr. Stephan Spiekman, a paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and the University of Hohenheim, have described a fossil of the long-necked marine reptile Austronaga minuta from China.