Tennessee to execute a woman for first time in 200 years after governor denies clemency: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 56
Tennessee to execute a woman for first time in 200 years after governor denies clemency
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row.
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Investigative/Global/Signal 44
Trump says US will win Iran war 'very soon' - Reuters
Trump says US will win Iran war 'very soon' Reuters Live - Trump warns Iran could hit US if it gets nuclear weapon Iran International Trump offers Iran war naysayers an extreme endgame: ‘Let them hit us with a nuclear weapon’ The Independent Trump won't rule out more Iran…
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 42
US deportations triggering ‘cascade’ of rights abuses: UN experts
GENEVA: US deportations of thousands of people to dozens of countries are “triggering a cascade of human rights violations,” heightening the risk of abuses like torture, slavery and trafficking, UN experts warned Monday.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
UAE confirms Netanyahu visit, discussion over bilateral relations with MBZ via state news agency
The report by WAM was the first UAE confirmation of Netanyahu's visit. Earlier this year, the UAE denied that MBZ met with Netanyahu after the PMO said Netanyahu had visited in May.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Early Transforming Furniture: Richard Neutra's Camel Table
In the 1930s Richard Neutra , the Austrian architect who'd made his home in California, designed an early example of flexible-use furniture.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
The Easy Roller: An Alternative Take on the Pizza Cutter
While the traditional form of a pizza cutter is this… …Japanese manufacturer Fireside has a different take, offering a much more compact form factor: It's no surprise this Easy Roller came from Japan, where storage space is limited.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Minimalist Low-Cost Japanese Sketchbook
These Blank Note sketchbooks by MUCU, a Japanese stationery brand, almost look like some kind of military surplus. But in fact they're just as minimal a sketchbook as possible: Two pieces of recycled paperboard for the covers, a canvas strip for the spine, and 60 pages of…
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Motomorphosis: MSCHF's Radically Modified Lexuses
Art collective MSCHF is at it again, this time with Lexus . For their Motomorphosis exhibit, which opens tomorrow at NYC's Armory Week art fair, they've stretched two real cars into unlikely forms.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Cory Johnson's Infinite Pocket Jeans
Remember these ridiculous jeans created by Werther's Originals? They had 30 coin pockets up and down the legs, intended to provide stash space for the candy company's treats.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
An Architectural-Scale Kintsugi Project
In the 1960s, college students stumbled across an abandoned ruin in the wilds of Warsaw, Virginia, outside of Richmond. The crumbling stone structure had been abandoned following a hurricane in the 1930s, and weather had taken its toll.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Cost-Cutting Disguised as Minimalism: Volvo's EX30 Dashboard Goes Too Far
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 39
Australia news live: Chalmers says Australians shouldn’t ‘carry the can’ of overseas decisions as cash rate decision due
Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast New South Wales police say they are investigating the suspicious deaths of two men in the state’s north.
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Business & Finance/Europe/Signal 39
Pope Leo criticises Nvidia’s Jensen Huang over AI safety
Rare intervention from head of Catholic Church comes as top executives are due to meet at White House on Tuesday
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Investigative/Global/Signal 39
Education Department officially scraps Biden-era Title IX rules - The Washington Post
Education Department officially scraps Biden-era Title IX rules The Washington Post Trump Officials Revise Biden-Era Sex Discrimination Rules The New York Times Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students The Hill Ed. Dept.
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 39
Trump doubles down on claims US will win war with Iran ‘one way or another’ as talks are in doubt – US politics live
President claims US negotiators spoke with Iranian officials through intermediaries after Iran says it ‘has no plans to negotiate with US’ Sign up for the Breaking News US email While the lawmakers in the US House have already left Washington to get a head start on midterm…
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 39
Journalist to be crowned king in Uganda after bitter succession dispute
Kijanangoma is being crowned amid a dispute over a young heir whom the royal clan does not recognise.
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 39
Hurricane Polo unleashes threatening winds as it approaches Mexico
The category-three storm is expected to make landfall of north of Cabo San Lucas, a popular tourist area, on the Mexican peninsula of Baja California Sur.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 38
Dopamine-based nanotubes combine heat, electrical stimulation and antioxidant release for first time
The research group at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Pontedera (Pisa), led by Gianni Ciofani, has developed new organic nanoparticles that combine multiple therapeutic functions in a single material for the first time.
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