Thomas Markle, father of Meghan, cut off his ankle monitor, DOJ says: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 64
Thomas Markle, father of Meghan, cut off his ankle monitor, DOJ says
Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, removed his electronic ankle monitor following his arrest for possession of child abuse materials. He is currently in custody awaiting a federal court hearing in Tampa, Florida.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 48
Tankers continue to burn in the Middle East despite hopes for de-escalation
The International Maritime Organization has confirmed 130 incidents, most of them attacks, in the region since the conflict began in late February, with at least 25 seafarers killed.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 47
UN peacekeepers say came under fire in southern Lebanon
UN peacekeepers say came under fire in southern Lebanon The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (Unifil) said on Tuesday that one of its patrols came under fire in the country's south, without saying who was responsible.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 45
British comedian and children’s author David Walliams accused of sexual misconduct
LONDON: British children’s author and comedian David Walliams used his fame to groom girls and young women for sex, two British news outlets reported on Tuesday.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
US House Republicans choose Jim Jordan as minority leader, Senators stick with Thune
A secret ballot held behind closed doors elevated Johnson to the minority leadership post a week after Democrats swept to victory in last Tuesday's midterm elections.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Magnetic-Footed Spider-Bot That Can Climb and Weld
The Diden Spider is a robot that has magnetic feet and can weld. Developed by South Korea's Diden Robotics, the four-legged 'bot uses electric pulses to switch its magnetic feet on and off; once attached to a surface, they draw no power.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Made in Search's Midcentury-esque Hearth Lamp
This simple, elegant Hearth Lamp looks like a Midcentury Modern design that's turned up in some Danish thrift shop. But in fact it's a new object, by British homeware brand Made in Search .
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Can You Guess How This Hollow Clock with Floating Hands Works?
This Hollow Clock was designed by Shinsaku Hiura , an engineering professor at the University of Hyogo. It was then 3D printed and assembled by content creator MechDesign98 . As the clock's name suggests, there is no pane of transparent material filling the circle.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Kate Schroder's Illuminated LED "Chandeliearrings"
These chandeliearrings are by Kate Schroeder , a Missouri-based ceramic artist and jewelrymaker. They contain LEDs powered by LR41 button batteries, which provide about 30 hours of life (though the brightness dims over time).
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Redneck & Designey Ways to Stop Vandals from Smashing Your Mailbox
I live in rural America, and can say that the 20th-century sport of "mailbox baseball" is still alive and well. While these photos aren't mine, this is a common scene on my local roads: This is a problem all around the country.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Table that Goes from Round to Square
This transforming table is by Polish company Bauhausly . Its signature trick is that it goes from round to square: Beneath you can see the concealed hinges that make it work.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Chemical-Free Anti-Mosquito Solution: Wearing Fake Dragonflies
In the English county of Cornwall, a contracting firm called Cormac handles construction, road maintenance and environmental services. On a job last summer, a Cormac crew had to clear riverside vegetation, and were getting eaten alive by biting insects.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 40
Financial institutions tout sustainability while still funding high-carbon projects, review finds
A review published in the International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting on the subject of greenwashing in financial services has found that financial institutions often claim environmental responsibility while continuing to finance high-carbon projects.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 39
Protein-building RNA molecules reveal possible remnants of an ancestral genetic code
The genetic code determines the correspondence between genetic instructions and amino acids—the building blocks that form proteins. How this correspondence arose is one of the major open questions in evolutionary biology. A study led by Dr.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 38
Webb's controversial 'little red dots' may finally have an explanation
Astronomers may have solved one of the biggest mysteries uncovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), using sophisticated simulations to show that enigmatic objects known as "little red dots" (LRDs) are likely the birthplaces of the first supermassive black holes.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 38
Protein tails help shape mosquito cell-to-cell channels
Cells share small molecules with their neighbors through tiny tunnels made of proteins arranged in a ring. Research at Nagoya University suggests that the tails of the proteins must link up to form an inner ring for the tunnel to become evenly round—a previously unknown step in…