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Europeans reject US allegations after Rubio’s speech in Munich

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Kaja Kallas 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MUNICH (AP) — A senior European Union official on Sunday rejected the idea that Europe is facing “civilizational erasure,” responding to the Trump administration’s criticism of the continent. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas addressed the Munich Security Conference a day after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a somewhat reassuring message to European allies. He used a less aggressive tone than that of Vice President J.D. Vance in lecturing them at the same gathering last year, but maintained…

‘Every role I do, I’m going to be a Black man first’: David Jonsson on winning Baftas, rebooting Alien and leaving TV’s hottest show | David Jonsson

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Jonsson,Film,Culture,Alien,Drama films,Science fiction and fantasy films ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: David Jonsson is the kind of actor who disappears so completely into his roles that it’s easy to forget you’re watching the same person each time. In Rye Lane, he’s a lovestruck south Londoner; in Industry, an Etonian banker with ice in his veins; in Alien: Romulus, a paranoid android. He’s now starring as heroin addict Taylor in the ultraviolent British prison drama Wasteman and, for the first time, the 32-year-old actor claims he is…

2026 Winter Olympics: Charlotte Banks and Hugh Nightingale win figure skating gold

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💥 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Charlotte Banks and Hugh Nightingale won the mixed team snowboard gold medal – the first Winter Olympic title for a Great Britain snowboard team.After heartbreak in the individual events, the British duo bounced back with an impressive performance to add Olympic gold to the world championship title they won in 2023.In an event with the men racing first, Nightingale crossed the finish line in second place to edge out Banks - and used her impressive speed on the board to take the lead and edge…

T20 World Cup: West Indies race to victory to reach Super 8s as USA wins to stay in contention

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🔥 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sanjay Krishnamurthy impressed with the bat as the USA edged past Namibia by 31 runs to remain in the hunt for a spot in the Super 8s after registering a second group stage win.The result means the USA are still in mathematical contention for the Super 8s tournament, but will need one loss from India and Pakistan in their remaining two matches and their net run rate to swing. But Namibia exited the tournament after failing to win any of its three group stage matches.After…

Amazon’s Ring and Google’s Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: One of Google’s Nest surveillance cameras, whose recordings can be accessed by Google even if users don’t subscribe to the security firm’s services. CC Photo Lab / ShutterstockThat the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly growing to the point of ubiquity has been demonstrated over the past week by seemingly benign events. While the picture that emerges is grim, to put it mildly, at least Americans are again confronted with crystal clarity over how severe this has become.The latest round of valid panic over privacy began…

“She dared to be difficult”: How Toni Morrison shaped the way we think | Toni Morrison

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Toni Morrison,Fiction,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THere are many ways to be difficult in this world. You can be demanding, uncomfortable, stubborn, complex, annoying, confusing, and illegible. Black womanhood is one place where all of these forms of difficulty intersect. I feel like I've always known this. I've been told more difficult times in my life than I can count. But it was only because of Toni Morrison that I began to understand - to discover the meanings and uses of - my difficulty.Morrison has shaped…

Italian Mosca brothers in T20 World Cup, Andrea Bocelli, Mario Balotelli and face England

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🚀 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: While not all of the Azzurri's footballing greats have cricket on their radar, Italy's 10-wicket thrashing of Nepal on Thursday catapulted the sport into the consciousness of a sports-loving nation, even with the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics underway.The famous Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport described it as "the result of an intervention in the anthology of our sport."In Mumbai, the team, which will face England in Kolkata on Monday, celebrated with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli - and his collaboration with Ed Sheeran on Perfect Symphony…

Nottingham Forest: Vitor Pereira has been announced as the new coach for 18 months

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💥 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Nottingham Forest The club have appointed Vitor Pereira on an 18-month contract, making the 57-year-old the club's fourth manager this season.The Portuguese takes over at City Ground from Sean Dyche, who was sacked on Thursday, and one of his tasks will be to help Forest avoid relegation from the Premier League.The team is ranked 17th in the First Division, three points away from the relegation zone, after two wins in the last 10 matches.Pereira's first match will be a Europa League preliminary round first leg…

Discord’s Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir’s Peter Thiel

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Last July was the cut-off date for major digital platforms to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA). In an attempt to block access between minors and material deemed “harmful” by the government, platforms like Reddit, Spotify, and X began tougher age verification for their users, such as facial scans or, in some cases, even needing to see government ID. At the top of those stumbling to do so was Discord, whose system is not only easy to game but also not impossible to…

‘From Misfits to Bullies’: How America’s Next Top Model Became Toxic | documentary

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Documentary,Reality TV,Factual TV,Television,Culture,Television & radio,Netflix 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Even for those who don't watch the show religiously, there's a scene on America's Next Top Model that went from reality TV crap to widespread fame.It happens when Tyra Banks, the model-turned-TV mogul, loses her cool in spectacular fashion at Tiffany Richardson's competition, after her post-elimination reaction is misconstrued as something that could be read as ungrateful. "I've never screamed at a girl like that in my life!" she screams. “When my mother screams like that, it's because…