Judge denies motion asking for Lindsay Clancy to be found not guilty due to lack of evidence: the hour's strongest signal
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Judge denies motion asking for Lindsay Clancy to be found not guilty due to lack of evidence
The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there wasn't enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children.
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Business & Finance/Global/Signal 46
Anthropic Said to Target Mega-IPO Before Thanksgiving Holiday
Anthropic PBC is seeking to go public as soon as the middle of November, according to people familiar with the matter, after the artificial intelligence model maker pushed back plans to list. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens has more.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 43
Ethiopia and Eritrea break diplomatic ties over conflict
Ethiopia and Eritrea broke diplomatic ties on Thursday, accusing each other of stoking internal conflicts as fighting continued in northern Ethiopia.
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 43
UK police arrest dual UK-Iranian national over Fairford air base incident
British police on Thursday arrested a British-Iranian dual national in connection with the security incident at the Fairford airbase Wednesday. Five other men initially arrested over the incidence were later released without charge on bail.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Israeli EuroCup, EuroLeague teams open their continental campaigns with mixed results across Europe
Lofton finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds, Smith added 18 points and Milton scored 14 in the win. Crockett led Rostock with 22 points, while Zach Copeland added 15.
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Araghchi offered inspectors access to nuclear facilities in exchange for sanctions relief
While Araghchi did not speak explicitly about the state of Iran's economy, the diplomats told Bloomberg that the suggestion signals the extent of the country's economic struggles.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Reshet Gimel co-founder, Kol Yisrael veteran Gilad Ben-Shach passes away at 85
In his work, he helped shape the station's musical sound at a time when radio had an enormous influence on musical tastes in Israel and on how songs and artists became hits.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
US judge finds law criminalizing noncitizen voting unconstitutional
Leibowitz wrote that under the US Constitution, only states can set voter qualifications, not Congress. Every state requires US citizenship to vote.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Saudi Arabia is Making…EVs?!?
For a while now, Saudi Arabia has been seeking to pivot away from fossil fuels as their main source of revenue. Even so, I did not see this coming. Ceer is a new Saudi Arabian auto manufacturer, the country's first.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
London Design Fair 2026: The Victoria & Albert Museum
The best place to start at LDF , and arguably the heart of the festival, is the Victoria Albert Museum in South Kensington.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Titan Straps: Fast, Tough Tie-Down Straps Invented for a Bikerafting Trip
Here's a fascinating way to travel: Bikerafting. First popularized in Alaska in the 1980s, you ride through the wilderness on your bike, carrying a packraft (an inflatable raft).
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A "Mirror" Made Out of Motorized Penguins
21c Museum Hotels is a hospitality company that combines boutique hotels and restaurants with contemporary art gallery spaces free to the public.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Utility Trailer that Folds Up for Storage
You might see this as a lame Autobot, but it's the only Transformer I'd have any actual use for: Adapt-X is the name of a utility trailer, that transforms into…a compact box. This allows you to store it in a space much smaller than its in-use footprint.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
AI Has Changed What Makes a Great Designer
For most of my nearly three decades teaching design at Parsons School of Design , there was a relatively straightforward answer to the question of what made a young designer valuable: technical proficiency.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
LDF 2026: Design collectives
Much has been said and written about design festivals having to bow to economic restraints and corporate rule. This year, independent collectives across London got together to shake up the establishment by just doing it themselves, together.
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Culture & Arts/Europe/Signal 39
Sexual assault case dismissed against Trailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith
Actor Mike Smith had been charged with sexual assault in 2025 for an alleged incident in 2017.
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Investigative/Global/Signal 39
Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials - washingtonpost.com
Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials washingtonpost.com Lawmakers call for action on ‘plainly illegal’ taxpayer-funded ads to promote Trump theguardian.com Top Democratic appropriator wants White House to pay for airing 'propaganda' - Live…
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Democrats sue over Pentagon’s changes to voter forms for Americans overseas - washingtonpost.com
Democrats sue over Pentagon’s changes to voter forms for Americans overseas washingtonpost.com Pentagon used emergency measure to change voter forms for Americans abroad Yahoo Trump administration's quiet move makes it harder for some US citizens abroad to vote, lawsuit says…
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