Man who assaulted US lawmaker Ilhan Omar sentenced to 14 months in prison: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 79
Man who assaulted US lawmaker Ilhan Omar sentenced to 14 months in prison
NEW YORK: A Minnesota man who squirted vinegar on Democratic US Representative Ilhan Omar was sentenced to one year and two months in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to assaulting a federal official.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 57
US approves sale of 48 F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia
3bn sale of 48 F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia, pending congressional approval, amid regional tensions.
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 51
Canadians dream of Europe as Carney floats longshot plan for living and working in EU
Torontonians are excited by the possibility of moving to the EU, even if it is unlikely anytime soon.
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Investigative/Global/Signal 48
LA woman charged with murder over bus crash that preceded deadly helicopter plunge - The Guardian
LA woman charged with murder over bus crash that preceded deadly helicopter plunge The Guardian Bailee Rios charged with 2nd degree murder, DUI, reckless driving in Metro bus crash in Chatsworth ABC7 Los Angeles New video emerges in Chatsworth helicopter crash.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 47
Work has stopped on system that was key to Trump effort to limit mail voting, USPS chief says
S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to President Donald Trump's effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order this week.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 45
UN allows Abbas, senior Palestinian officials to again speak via video after US denies visa
“As long as Abbas continues his policy of making payments to terrorists and their families, he cannot expect the international community to simply ignore it," Danon said.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 42
As AI behavior raises concerns, ex-researcher Jacob Coxon warns what may lie ahead
OpenAI announced it had discovered six new instances of "concerning or unexpected" behavior by its artificial intelligence models. It follows repeated warnings about how rapid advances in AI threaten to outpace the ability to develop the tech safely.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 41
US sanctions Iranian financier's crypto exchange, says it processes Hormuz payments
Treasury said BitBank had routed hundreds of millions of dollars to the IRGC and described the exchange as a key component in Iran’s digital assets-based sanctions-evasion infrastructure.
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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
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
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
The Rainwater Wall: A Space-Saving Water Harvesting Tank
In many parts of the world, people harvest rainwater. In rural America, where I live, you'll see people using two solutions. The first is a rain barrel.
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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 39
7 of the weirdest things coffee does to your body
Coffee doesn’t just make you feel more alert. Here’s what else happens when you drink a cuppa.
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Business & Finance/Global/Signal 39
Dow Jones Futures: S&P 500, Nasdaq Rebound Above Key Level; Moderna, AMD, SpaceX Flash Buy Signals - Investor's Business Daily
Dow Jones Futures: S&P 500, Nasdaq Rebound Above Key Level; Moderna, AMD, SpaceX Flash Buy Signals Investor's Business Daily Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq rebound as bond yields slip, oil eases Yahoo Finance Tech leads Wall St to higher close as oil eases, Treasury…
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Business & Finance/Global/Signal 38
Tata Sons Power Struggle Deepens as Chandra’s Return a Setback for Noel
The stage is set for a showdown between Tata Sons and its majority shareholder.
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