WATCH: Trump signs executive orders imposing new limits on birthright citizenship: the hour's strongest signal
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WATCH: Trump signs executive orders imposing new limits on birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is once more trying to limit the number of people who are born in the country who can become American citizens, in a sign that even after his first attempt at limiting birthright citizenship was rejected by the Supreme Court, he's…
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 42
Israel charges settler over killing of Palestinian involved in Oscar-winning West Bank film
Yinon Levy is charged with reckless manslaughter over the July 2025 shooting of Odeh Hathaleen.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 41
Trump pushes ahead on false claims Reflecting Pool was vandalized
Jeanine Pirro this week found out there's a trade-off between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 41
Iran war renews concerns about lasting toll of traumatic brain injuries to American troops
Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation into the care wounded troops received following an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait that killed six soldiers early in the Iran war.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
At least two killed, 14 wounded in deadly bomb attack in predominantly Druze area near Damascus
The targeted street in Jaramana is somewhat narrow and includes shops and street vendors, Imad said, as people clamored around him.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Trump pitches Vance to donors as next presidential candidate in private meeting
According to two anonymous sources, Trump had told the donors that "At the end of the day, we need to elect JD," during a meeting in the Oval Office two weeks ago.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Trump says Strait of Hormuz is 'sort of open right now,' believes Iran 'can't go much longer'
On Wednesday, the White House refuted reports that Trump and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had argued about a lack of munitions in the wake of the war with Iran.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Combining Computational Design with Wicker
Wicker story is the name of an initiative by architect Priyanka Narula and her firm, Hyderabad-based Prelab Design Studio. "The project was a response to a prolonged quest to define the future of design in the Indian context," Narula writes.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Unitree's Impressive Off-Road Dog-Bot/Pack Mule
It might seem silly to develop a dog robot that can breakdance, as Chinese robotics brand Unitree has done. However, they've put all that agility to practical use.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Sonic's Focus on the UX of Pencil Cases
Here Japanese stationery manufacturer Sonic rethinks the humble pencil case, which is typically a form-follows-function rectangle.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World
S. was the dominant industrial power. We enjoyed conveniences and luxuries not readily available in other parts of the world, from air conditioning to appliances to cutting-edge vehicles.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
U.S. Government Bans Foreign-Made Robots
Recently we've covered a number of robots, ranging from creepy to nifty: UBTECH's U1 companion robots. Unitree's crazy off-road AS2-W . Hyundai's parking robots .
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco
As a Partner and Executive Managing Director at IDEO San Francisco , Michelle Lee leads multidisciplinary teams of researchers, designers, and engineers across sectors ranging from healthcare and workplace culture to responsible digital design and the circular economy.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Roof Racks That Automatically Lift and Lower the Load For You
These powered arms eliminate the single biggest hassle of a roof rack: The loading and unloading. They're made by multiple Chinese manufacturers you've never heard of, like Sionto and Kayjay.
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Research & Discovery/Global/Signal 40
Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun’s surface - Physics World
Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun’s surface Physics World Ubiquitous Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities driving plasma mixing on the Sun Nature Most detailed images ever taken of sun's surface revealed: "Major step forward" CBS News NSF Inouye Solar…
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 39
Q&A: Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
People in communities thousands of miles apart have described the same strange experience after eating a mysterious mushroom: vivid visions of tiny humans moving through and interacting with the physical world around them.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 39
Sweetgreen cuts full-year outlook as cyclospora fears weigh on sales
The salad chain has not been implicated in the ongoing cyclospora outbreak.
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Global Tech/Asia/Signal 39
ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users - TechCrunch
6 Luna for free users OpenAI OpenAI makes major upgrades for free and paid ChatGPT users.