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Model scout for Jeffrey Epstein found dead at his home near Paris

Model scout for Jeffrey Epstein found dead at his home near Paris

Daniel Siad faced allegations of rape and trafficking in France and appeared in more than 1,000 documents in Epstein filesA modelling scout who recruited women for Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead at his home near Paris, French officials have said.Daniel Siad, 69, was under investigation by the prosecutors specialising in human trafficking in France, accused of rape and other charges. His name appeared in more than 1,000 documents in the US Department of Justice Epstein files that were declassified earlier this year.

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The GuardianHumanity
Why many Black Americans were rooting for Argentina to lose the World Cup | Etan Thomas

Why many Black Americans were rooting for Argentina to lose the World Cup | Etan Thomas

Many Black Americans were not cheering Spain’s complicated history. They were rooting against the racism, politics and silence associated with ArgentinaThere are moments in sports when you realize people aren’t just watching the score any more. They’re watching values. They’re watching who speaks. They’re watching who stays silent. And they’re watching what those silences say.I found myself thinking about that throughout this World Cup. On paper, Sunday’s final looked simple. v . Two footballing giants and countries with glorious soccer histories. Two nations whose pasts are also stained by colonization, oppression and chapters of history that shouldn’t be whitewashed simply because someone can score a goal.

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HaaretzHumanityIslamic World
Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.

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The GuardianScandalUnited Kingdom
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press

Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press

Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinionA political lobbying firm founded by the former electoral strategist for David Cameron and Boris Johnson secretly pays journalists to write pieces for British newspapers that are favourable to their clients, a Guardian investigation can reveal.In a practice that appears to create a backdoor for private companies to influence public opinion, lobbyists for CT Group – co-founded by the campaign strategist, Lynton Crosby – told an undercover reporter that they had paid journalists to place apparently independent stories in newspapers.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Democrats need to hammer Trump on his unprecedented corruption | Steven Greenhouse

Democrats need to hammer Trump on his unprecedented corruption | Steven Greenhouse

To win in this year’s midterm elections, the party must highlight that Trump has made huge financial gains while millions struggle to make ends meetIf the Democrats hope to maximize their chances of winning in this November’s elections, there’s a subject they need to scream far and wide about: Donald Trump’s immense and unprecedented corruption. The Democrats need to make clear to every American that Trump has shamelessly used his second term to increase his wealth by an astounding amount – by – all while millions of Americans are struggling to make ends meet, their struggles made worse by Trump policies that have and .Every day through election day, the Democrats should convey loud and clear that America’s billionaire president has focused far more on making himself richer than on improving the lives of average Americans. Trump’s corruption and conflicts of interest are so vast and outrageous that many Americans have little idea how vast and outrageous they are: ranging from Trump’s making more than last year to granting pardons to criminals to Trump’s campaign to his sons’ investing in start-up companies that from the Trump administration.Steven Greenhouse is a journalist and author, focusing on labor and the workplace, as well as economic and legal issues

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NatureHealth AlertsUSA
Tertiary lymphoid structures harbour stem-like tumour-specific T cells

Tertiary lymphoid structures harbour stem-like tumour-specific T cells

Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) are associated with improved responses to immune checkpoint blockade across solid tumours1,2, but how they impact the phenotypic properties of tumour-specific T cells remains unclear. Here we found, across 24 treatment-naive renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tumours, that TLS-containing tumours are more heavily infiltrated by exhausted CD8+ T cells and have a reduced terminal exhaustion transcriptional program compared with TLS− tumours.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosisThe presumption that US elections are legitimate died last week in Washington. It was 237 years old. It did not die of one wound. It died of three, inflicted in a single day, in daylight, on the record. And the country, running to the loudest of them, never examined the one most likely to kill.In critical care we distinguish the mechanism of death from its cause. The mechanism was a Thursday. The cause was chronic, progressive and untreated.Robert B Shpiner is a clinical professor of medicine in pulmonary and critical care at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

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The GuardianCrime & SafetyUSA
Prosecutors argue D4vd had financial motivation to kill Celeste Rivas Hernandez

Prosecutors argue D4vd had financial motivation to kill Celeste Rivas Hernandez

Details emerge about how much Interscope Records paid the singer at hearing to determine if there is probable cause for murder case to proceed to trialSinger D4vd had a multimillion-dollar recording deal, an executive at his former label testified on Wednesday, as prosecutors sought to establish the musician had a financial motivation to kill Celeste Rivas Hernandez.Details emerged of how much Interscope Records was paying the singer, who was born David Anthony Burke, on the second day of a hearing to determine if there is probable cause for him to stand trial for the murder and sexual abuse of Rivas Hernandez.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
LA prosecutors present gruesome evidence in murder case against singer D4vd

LA prosecutors present gruesome evidence in murder case against singer D4vd

Prosecutors seeking to try musician, born David Anthony Burke, for murder over death of Celeste Rivas HernandezSinger-songwriter appeared in a courtroom on Tuesday as prosecutors aim to prove sufficient evidence exists for him to stand trial for the murder and sexual abuse of, Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a minor whose body was found in his car.Los Angeles county prosecutors accuse the musician, born David Anthony Burke, of stabbing Hernandez to death at his Los Angeles residence last April to silence her from divulging the sexual nature of their relationship as his career was on the rise , according to court documents. Prosecutors say the sexual abuse began in November 2023, when Burke was 18 and Hernandez was 13.

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The GuardianWar & ConflictSouth East England
Iran’s military reportedly warns of expanded war after Trump’s threats to destroy nation’s infrastructure – Middle East crisis live

Iran’s military reportedly warns of expanded war after Trump’s threats to destroy nation’s infrastructure – Middle East crisis live

US president vows to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant for each strait of Hormuz attack; Iran’s military says it will stop Gulf oil flow and target regional infrastructure if US acts on threats, state tv reports The Jordanian army said it intercepted four Iranian missiles on Wednesday with two additional missile falling in an open area, AFP reports.The two missiles that the army did not intercept fell in “two remote, uninhabited areas, without causing any human casualties or material damage” the army said in a statement.

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NatureScienceChina
RNA synthesis and substrate analog inhibition in the CCHFV polymerase

RNA synthesis and substrate analog inhibition in the CCHFV polymerase

The about 4000-residue L proteins from the Nairoviridae are the largest known viral polymerases, lacking global structural information and promising nucleotide analog (NA) inhibitors. Here we report structures of full-length Nairoviridae Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) L including a 3.0-Å-resolution polymerase elongation complex that elucidates mechanisms of both early and late elongation stages.

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The TelegraphScandalEngland
Mexican billionaire hired private spies for sting against City lawyer

Mexican billionaire hired private spies for sting against City lawyer

A Mexican billionaire hired private spies to secretly record a City lawyer who was plied with alcohol during a five-hour dinner in a case involving an alleged $415m (£310m) fraud. Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who is one of Mexico’s richest people, hired Black Cube, an Israeli intelligence firm, to gather information about alleged fraudster Vladimir Sklarov, according to a Court of Appeal judgment.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
ICE keeps accusing immigrants of ‘weaponizing’ vehicles. Most claims fall apart

ICE keeps accusing immigrants of ‘weaponizing’ vehicles. Most claims fall apart

Nearly all car ‘assault’ cases promoted by DHS in press releases have been disproven or dropped, a Guardian analysis of court records revealsThe Trump administration has repeatedly accused immigrants and protesters of “weaponizing” their vehicles to “assault” federal immigration agents, a claim used to justify arrests and deadly shootings by officers.But a Guardian review of 26 cases that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has promoted as evidence of a surge in “vehicular attacks” reveals most of those claims have fallen apart under scrutiny, with the accusations consistently disproven by evidence or rejected in court. Only one of the 26 cases has resulted in an assault conviction, according to court records and information shared by prosecutors.Fifteen of the 26 people accused of vehicle attacks never faced federal criminal charges over the incidents, and 11 of the 26 people did.Eight people who were charged had their cases dismissed, including one person who received a “deferred prosecution”, meaning charges will be dropped if the defendant meets certain conditions.One person has a pending assault charge; one pleaded guilty to assault; and one was convicted of “destruction of government property”, but acquitted of assault.DHS has repeatedly continued to promote people’s cases as evidence of violence long after the original claims fell apart.Cases were dropped or never charged in California, Colorado, Arizona, Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, Maryland and Washington DC.

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The GuardianAIUSA
AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

Firm behind ChatGPT reveals agent powered by its models chose to attack Hugging Face database by itselfOpenAI has revealed an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”.The company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent – an AI tool designed to carry out tasks without human assistance – which had entered its systems.

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The GuardianScandalNetherlands
​World’s largest meat company faces legal challenge over green credentials of $6bn global expansion

​World’s largest meat company faces legal challenge over green credentials of $6bn global expansion

Greenpeace petitions Dutch courts to order JBS to disclose how its aims are compatible with responsibilities to climate and human rightsThe world’s biggest meat company, JBS, faces a landmark legal challenge to disclose how its $6bn (£4.5bn) global expansion plan is compatible with responsibilities to the climate, nature and human rights.Courts in the Netherlands, where JBS is headquartered, will assess the petition filed by Greenpeace for information on whether the company is compliant with Dutch laws on “duty of care” as well as its own publicly stated commitments.

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