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FBI raid on election offices raises debate over voting security and federal power

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✨ Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: 2020 election,Donald Trump news,election deniers,georgia,retribution 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The FBI's move to execute a search warrant at voting offices in Fulton County, Georgia, and the presence of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, have ignited an intense debate about election security and federal authority. Jeff Bennett discussed more with Rick Hasen, professor of law and political science at UCLA and author of The Real Right to Vote. Jeff Bennett: The FBI's move this week to execute a warrant at voting offices in Fulton County, Georgia,…

Samurai Erotica, a Sculpture of Metal and Flesh and the Big Flare by Jenny Holzer – The Week in Art | Art and design

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekSamuraiAn enormous and stunning journey into Japan's past, with samurai armor so skillfully crafted that it appears mysteriously alive, as well as magnificent landscapes, evocative art and other arts that delighted the samurai between battles. Read the review here. British Museum, London, from 3 February to 4 Mayalso appearJulia PhillipsUneasy couplings between metal and flesh in sculptures that include casts of the artist's body. Barbican Curve, London, until 19 AprilNew contemporariesKat Anderson, Hadas Auerbach, Deborah Lerner and…

OnlyFans is considering selling its majority stake to Architect Capital

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💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Architect Capital,business,Leonid Radvinsky,onlyfans 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: OnlyFans — a massive network of adult content creators where performers and influencers sell subscription-based content directly to fans — is considering selling a majority stake of its business to investment firm Architect Capital, a source close to the deal told TechCrunch. The deal would value the platform at $5.5 billion. Of the $5.5 billion, $3.5 billion will be equity and $2 billion will be debt, the source said. Under these terms, the architect will assume a 60% stake in…

Australian Open 2026 final: Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina prepare for an exciting women’s final

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “Sabalenka has a bit more firepower that can force Rybakina into some areas she doesn't want to be in - but there's not a lot of it,” said Pat Cash, the 1987 Wimbledon champion and BBC Radio 5 live pundit.“It will be interesting to see how they handle each other's pace.”Sabalenka has reached her seventh consecutive Grand Slam final on hard courts, becoming the third woman in the Open Era to achieve this feat after Steffi Graf and Martina Hingis. Sabalenka has also competed…

Michael Carrick: Manchester United could be active on deadline day, says interim manager

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🚀 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Michael Carrick has not ruled out adding Manchester United to his squad before Monday's transfer deadline.Former United coach Ruben Amorim said last month that he expected to bring in someone during the transfer window.However, the club's refusal to transfer the £65m it was willing to spend on long-term target Antoine Semenyu - who has opted to join Manchester City from Bournemouth - has been a source of frustration for the Portuguese.United have been linked with a number of central midfielders, including former Wolves captain Ruben…

A 9M-parameter Mandarin pronunciation tutor

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: Mandarin pronunciation has been hard for me, so I took ~300 hours of transcribed speech and trained a small CTC model to grade my pronunciation. You can try it here. In my previous post about Langseed, I introduced a platform for defining words using only vocabulary I had already mastered. My vocabulary has grown since then, but unfortunately, people still struggle to understand what I'm saying. Part of the problem is tones. They're fairly foreign to me, and I'm bad at hearing my own…

What was revealed in the latest release of the Epstein files – and what was redacted

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💥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Department of Justice,Donald Trump news,epstein files,jeffrey epstein ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Department of Justice has released its latest, and perhaps final, set of files related to the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. This comes more than a month after the deadline set by Congress. The edition includes more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images. The Justice Department says there were amendments, but did not provide a full explanation of what was excluded. Reported by Ali Rogin. Amna Nawaz: The Department of Justice has released…

Add to playlist: Boundless bedroom-made black metal from Powerplant and this week’s best new songs | music

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Metal 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: from LondonRecommend if you like Defoe, Home Front, Sniperthe next The new album Bridge of Sacrifice was released on March 13Theo Zikharev is one of those genius eccentrics who can turn wild ideas into reality. Since starting Powerplant as a bedroom recording project in 2017, two years after leaving Ukraine to study in London, he has released records built on raucous electro punk, dungeon synth and treble-heavy hardcore, and concocted Dungeons & Dragons-inspired role-playing adventures to accompany some of them, while visually…

a16z partner Kofi Ampadu will leave the company after the TxO program is discontinued

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Venture,a16z,Startups,venture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Kofi Ampadu, a partner at a16z who led the firm's Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, has left the company, according to an email he sent to employees and obtained by TechCrunch. This comes months after the company temporarily shut down TxO and laid off most of its employees. “During my time at the company, I have been extremely grateful for the opportunity and trust I have been given to lead this business,” Ampadu wrote in an email sent Friday afternoon, titled “Closing…

Under-19 World Cup: Manny Lumsden wins 5-17 as England beat New Zealand to reach semi-final

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✨ Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Manny Lumsden took five wickets as England booked their place in the semi-finals of the Under-19 Men's World Cup by 65 points over New Zealand.Hampshire seamer Lumsden bowled superbly on a slow pitch at Queen's Sports Club in Bulawayo to finish with impressive figures of 5-17 as the Kiwis were bowled out for 169 in pursuit of 235.England will play Australia or Afghanistan in the semi-finals on February 3 or 4 depending on India's performance in their final group match in the Super Six stage…