Tennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 59
Tennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years
One of the youngest women sent to death row is set to be executed in Tennessee. If carried out as scheduled Wednesday, it would be Tennessee's first execution of a woman in 200 years.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 50
News organizations ask court to bar White House enforcement of access ban
Three news outlets that President Trump banished from White House grounds asked a federal court to block the ban until the case is resolved.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 50
North Korean DMZ landmine blasts ‘violation of armistice’: Seoul
Seoul has declared that landmine explosions in the DMZ, which injured three South Korean soldiers, were instigated by North Korea, violating the armistice agreement.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 48
US forces exit Iraq after two decades, leaving opening for Iran
By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD, Sept 29 (Reuters) - US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a departure celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades…
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 47
Evicted Spanish pensioner can move back home, lawyer says
The eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, 87, prompted large-scale protests across Spain.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 46
Pope Leo says AI risk concerns not ‘fake news’
Leader of the Catholic Church says AI safety issues should be taken seriously and acted on.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 45
UK police release men on bail for airbase incident, US surprised
For his part, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that a suspected bomb plot near a UK airbase used by the US was the work of a "foreign actor."
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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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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
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
Mafell's Beefy Portable Drilling Station for Timber Framers
Traditional timber framing is still very much a thing in Europe. Timber framers often need to drill accurate holes for the pegs that will fasten two timbers, and these holes occasionally need to be drilled at angles.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 40
A month ago, this JPMorgan team urged caution on stocks. Now it’s going all in on tech.
A JPMorgan unit that focuses on short-term trading signals has turned bullish again after a month of caution.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 39
Putin orders army expansion as Zelenskyy warns Russia preparing to deploy 10,000 North Korean troops
The decree marks the fourth increase in Russia’s military staffing levels this year as the war in Ukraine continues into a fifth winter.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 39
Democratic whip plans cross-country midterm sprint
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark will do a whirlwind tour of districts in California, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 39
No AI czar but Trump ahead of White House’s AI CEO meeting
it’s not clear that naming a czar and putting together a task force are on the White House AI priority list right now.
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