Democratic candidates hold narrow leads in Texas and Michigan US Senate races, new poll shows – live: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 56
Democratic candidates hold narrow leads in Texas and Michigan US Senate races, new poll shows – live
James Talarico and Abdul El-Sayed are ahead – but by a razor-thin margin, according to a new poll from Emerson College and The Hill Sign up for the US Breaking News email Maria Elvira Salazar, a Republican congresswoman from South Florida, made a rare public break with President…
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Investigative/Global/Signal 53
US passenger duct-taped to plane seat says: ‘I don’t remember any of it’ - The Guardian
US passenger duct-taped to plane seat says: ‘I don’t remember any of it’ The Guardian Duct-taped on a flight diverted to BWI, man says he doesn’t remember any of it The Baltimore Banner Man duct-taped to airplane seat and diverted to Baltimore says "I don't remember any of it"…
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 43
Nike is getting dropped from the S&P 100 after 18 years. Here’s its plan to come back
After an 18-year tenure, Nike will be removed from the S&P 100 later this month. But during a panel at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City this week, Phil McCartney, Nike's chief innovation, design, and product officer, maintained that the company’s best days…
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 41
Real Madrid fan group wants Mbappe apology over Ceuta shirt snub
A Real Madrid supporters’ group is seeking a public apology from Kylian Mbappe and teammates for partially wearing a tribute shirt supporting Ceuta before a match against Elche.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Gaza documentary sparks political storm in Israel
On a street in southern Israel, a graffiti artist paints a mural depicting the filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary "NAZA". But this is not a tribute.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
US approves possible sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia
Word of the potential deal first spread in late 2025, leading many to question whether Saudi Arabia obtaining F-35’s would pose a challenge to Israel’s military advantage in the region.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Iran recently shot down at least two MQ-1 American military drones, US officials say
The report follows claims by regime state broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on Tuesday that Iran shot down an MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Trump says he has a 'big decision coming up' regarding whether or not to 'annihilate' Iran
"I have a big decision coming up," he said. "Do I want to go in and annihilate them, or do I not? It's a big decision.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
How naval combat with Hamas after Oct. 7 transformed a low-ranked soldier into an officer
Israel Navy officer "O," recently graduated from his officer cadets course, after spending a nearly unprecedented 18 months as a regular non-officer mandatory service navy combat fighter.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Oilstainlab's Automotive-Inspired Maniac Chair
Out of the corner of your eye, this might appear to be a midcentury chair. But look closer, and you see a material no 1950s Scandinavian designer got to play around with: Carbon fiber. The piece is in fact current.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Autodesk's Aishwarya Balamukundan on Judging Core77's Fusion Forward Competition
Ask Aishwarya Balamukundan what excites her most in design right now, and she'll point to something almost invisible: the shrinking gap between having an idea and holding the finished thing.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Americans Invent Yet Another Crazy-Ass Racing Style: "King of the Hill"
I'm sure our overseas readers are shaking their heads. Yes, we Americans have done it again, inventing a new bat-shit style of racing. It was going to be hard to top the Rockford Speedway Figure 8 Trailer Race , where all participants had to drag a trailer.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
An Ice Cube Alternative: Frozen Titanium Spheres
This is another of those products that archaeologists will wonder about, when they dig them up in the distant future. Chinese company Xuzhou Herui Outdoor Products Co. sells these Frost Titan Core Balls , an ice cube alternative made out of titanium.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Great Design in Need of Basic Improvement: This Clamp-Based Tape Dispenser
Here's a clever product idea from industrial designers David Suhami Nitzan Shafat, a/k/a Scratch Design. ClampTape is essentially an A-clamp with a tape dispenser centered on the clamp's pivot point.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Skil's Powered Hex Key Set
Lots of us have something like this in the toolbox or junk drawer: Now Skil has designed a powered hex key set , the world's first. The head can lock at 90°, 135° and 180° positions, then your thumb does all the work. The push-button has both forward and reverse.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
How Much Should You Weigh? This 1970s Scale Told You
A bathroom scale has one job: To tell you how much you weigh. But in the 1980s, the industrial designers at Krups decided to go further, with their Data EG scale. The scale contained a pull-out weight chart in the center.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 40
What Wendell Berry meant to Christian farmers going green
In the late evening of Aug. 31, 2026, I missed a call from Jennifer, a seventh-generation cattle rancher in Georgia. S.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 40
Intel and Micron lead our portfolio higher, and J&J's strengthens our case for owning it
Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.
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