Iran drone plot fears led US to remove bombers from UK base, US officials say: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 59
Iran drone plot fears led US to remove bombers from UK base, US officials say
Iran drone plot fears led US to remove bombers from UK base, US officials say A suspected plot involving Iran to launch a complex drone attack on a key British airbase led the United States to remove its B-1 bomber aircraft from the base, two US officials told Reuters on…
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 54
Former ‘American Idol’ singer Caleb Flynn is sentenced to life in prison for wife’s murder
Caleb Flynn, a former contestant on ‘American Idol’, was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murder of his wife. He was convicted by a jury despite maintaining his innocence.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 49
Kilmar Ábrego Garcia is set to be back in court as he battles deportation to Liberia
Kilmar Ábrego Garcia is returning to court to contest his deportation to Liberia after a previous mistaken deportation to El Salvador. His legal team seeks a permanent injunction to halt the deportation, arguing for his relocation to Costa Rica.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 46
Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer covering West Bank
An AFP photographer was beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank while covering violence against olive farmers. The photographer was injured and hospitalized.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 45
British Airways plans record 106-seat business class on Airbus A380 jumbo jets
British Airways is ripping out coach-class seats and building a giant premium economy and business class in a bet on the high-end travel boom.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 45
Djokovic wins China Open as de Minaur retires injured
Novak Djokovic secured his seventh China Open title after Alex de Minaur retired due to a groin injury during the final match.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 45
Anduril lands $2.9 billion Navy submarine shipyard contract days after Luckey joins Pentagon weapons group
Defense tech leaders are gaining sway in Washington in President Donald Trump's military reindustrialization push
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 43
Kenya confirms first Ebola case as man dies in Nairobi after DRC return
More than 4,000 people have died in the worst outbreak in the DR Congo's history, with confirmed cases surpassing 8,300.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 42
Coalition says intercepted Houthi missile targeting southwest Saudi Arabia
The Saudi-led coalition reported intercepting and destroying a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi group targeting the southwest region of Saudi Arabia.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Strutt's Chief Designer Covers the Development of Their Powered Wheelchair Battery
Earlier we looked at the ev¹ , a beautiful powered wheelchair by Singaporean startup Strutt . We were so taken by the form that we didn't even wonder where the battery goes, or what it looks like.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
"A Design Wonderland:" The X-D-E-P-O-T, a Repository of Good Design
If you're into industrial design history, here's a worthwhile destination: The X-D-E-P-O-T , a long-term exhibition by German design museum Die Neue Sammlung at their facility in Munich.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
London Design Festival 2026
The leaves are turning golden, the trains are turning up late, and the London Design Festival is returning for its 24th edition.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Hell in a Handbasket: An Add-On Reading Screen for Your Phone So You Don't Have to Develop Willpower
As a product category, the smartphone is singularly bizarre: You buy it for its convenience, then buy secondary devices that prevent you from using it. As if you, the user, have no willpower.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
UTV Decks: How to Transport a UTV Without a Trailer
UTVs, or Utility Terrain Vehicles, are popular in rural America. Also called side-by-sides, they're essentially ATVs that can seat two or four people, and some 420,000 were sold in America last year. Farmers, ranchers, rural property owners, and hunters use them.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
In an Industrial Space, a Freestanding Bedroom Structure as Home-Within-a-Home
Spanish architects Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño, a/k/a TAKK, have made their family home in a former industrial space in Barcelona.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
These Ignition Button Covers for Cars Will Surely Fill the Hole in Your Life
Occasionally in order to detect a disease, doctors must look for the presence of the antibodies our systems produce in response to the disease. That reminds me of this category of objects.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 40
El Niño and tropical Atlantic warming could offer early warning of extreme heat in the Amazon
El Niño and warming in the tropical Atlantic could help provide advance warning of extreme heat in the Amazon, with some signals appearing as much as seven months earlier, new research has found.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 40
America’s renters are emerging as a political movement
Housing policy has long prioritized homeownership. As young Americans face the prospect of renting indefinitely, more tenants are seeking political clout.
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