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The squandered opportunity forces us to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth.

This post was originally published on here More than 41 million Americans will go without food stamps starting this Friday if Congress does not reopen the government before that. The Department of Agriculture said it will not use emergency funds to pay for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (snap). An average of 41.7 million people—12.3…

This post was originally published on here America and China have stepped back from the brink of trade war; U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed yesterday that the two sides had the outlines of a deal in place. A U.S.-China trade war has catastrophic potential for the world’s major economies, so stocks rallied globally at…

This post was originally published on here Pope Leo and King Charles prayed together, exchanged gifts and symbols of esteem, and called each other spiritual brothers yesterday. Is English Christianity reuniting with the Vatican? “It was the moment that made ecclesiastical history,” wrote the Telegraph. “The King and the pope joined together in prayer, marking…

This post was originally published on here As megacorporations pour historic sums of money into advancing AI as rapidly as possible, warnings of unintended consequences of the new tech continue to be brushed aside. This morning, Axios reported on another: AI-generated child pornography based on publicly available photos from social media: A wave of fake…

The problem with Britain cozying up to the Roman Catholic Church

This post was originally published on here Germany’s economy minister, Katherina Reiche, held crisis talks with car manufacturers yesterday over an imminent industrial crisis. Nexperia is a Dutch-based computer chip manufacturer owned by the Chinese company Wingtech. Egged on by the U.S., Dutch authorities seized control of the company on September 30 to ensure “the…

This post was originally published on here After canceling a personal meeting with Vladimir Putin, the Trump administration yesterday announced new sanctions on two of Russia’s top oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, pillars of the Russian economy. These sanctions, among the largest ever levied against Russia, aim not just to curb the Russian dictator’s ability…

Movements from the past are echoed in the present.