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Brooks and Capehart talk about the response to the Minnesota ICE shootings

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🔥 Read this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Jeff Bennett: This week saw the shooting death of an American citizen by an ICE agent, and new signs of the Trump administration's emerging vision of American leadership.Now is the time to analyze Brooks and Capehart. These are New York Times columnist David Brooks and MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart.It's been a week, gentlemen. Good to see you both.So, Jonathan, this week was a grim turning point, as an ICE agent, as you well know, shot and killed an American citizen during an enforcement…

I met a lot of weird robots at CES — here are the most memorable ones

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✨ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Robotics,TC,CLOid,Dyna Robotics,EngineAi,Galbot,Unitree ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CES has always been a great event for robotics, and this year's event saw the announcement of a number of important developments in robotics, including the new production-ready debut of Atlas, a robot from Boston Dynamics. Then there were all the robots in the showroom, as robots often serve as good marketing for the companies involved. If they don't always provide a completely accurate representation of where trade publishing is right now, they give visitors a sneak peek at where it might be headed.…

Caltrain Shows Why Every Region Should Be Moving Toward Regional Rail

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💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Regional rail rising? Electrification has allowed Caltrain to steadily adopt a regional-rail service model. Notably, it more than doubled the number of daily trains on weekends after electrification to 33 departures in each direction. As a result, weekend ridership has more than doubled. In fact, it now exceeds pre-pandemic level, even though Caltrain’s overall ridership in 2025 remained at about 60% of pre-pandemic levels. And Caltrain’s commitment to regional rail could get a boost in this fall’s California elections. Last October, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed…

In Search of Youkali Album Review – Katie Bray is great on this trip around Weill | classical music

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: YOakley was, for Kurt Weill, a land of desires, promised but never fulfilled—a powerful image of the exiled and itinerant composer. The 1935 song on which he captured the idea, Tango, forms the star of Katie Brae's journey through Will's songwriting career, which he performed alongside pianist William Vann, accordionist Murray Grainger and double bassist Marian Schofield, the last of the Hermes experience.First, we hear Yukali's haunting, unaccompanied musings, and then more of these musings punctuate the program until we finally…

Gabby Logan has paid tribute to Welsh legend Terry Yorath after his death

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✨ Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Palestinian Authority MediaLegendary Terry Yorath, seen here watching football with his daughter Gabby Logan, presenter of BBC's Match of the Day programme, where he captained and managed the Wales team. Broadcaster Gabby Logan has paid tribute to her father, Welsh football legend Terry Yorath, describing him as a “kind-hearted and generous man” with a “wicked sense of humour”.The former Leeds United and Wales midfielder died aged 75 this week after a short illness.Posting on Instagram, Logan shared the tribute accompanied by several family photos from…

Bukayo Saka has agreed a new long-term contract with Arsenal

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✨ Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Bukayo Saka has agreed a new long-term contract with... Arsenal.It is understood the new contract will make the 24-year-old one of the club's highest-paid players.The agreement is the latest example of Arsenal tying down their key players to long-term contracts as they look to keep their title-chasing squad together.William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhaes, Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis Skelly all signed new long-term contracts in the summer.England international Saka has become a key player for the Gunners since making his debut in 2018, having come through…

Vivek Ramaswamy’s family bodyguard arrested on drug smuggling charges

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✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: drug trafficking,ohio,Vivek Ramaswamy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy expressed concern that a man who worked as his family's bodyguard faces federal drug trafficking charges. Justin Salisbury, 43, of Bellefontaine, and his wife, Ruthanne Rankin, were both charged late last month with conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute large quantities of drugs through the U.S. mail. Salsbury was working for a private security firm hired by Ramaswamy's family for protective services, according to campaign spokeswoman Connie Luck. She…

Grok is used to mock women and strip them of their hijabs and sarees

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✨ Read this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Culture News,Gen AI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Grok users are not like that Just command the AI chatbot to “undress” photos of women and girls and wear bikinis and see-through underwear. Among the vast and growing library of non-consensual sexual modifications that Grok created upon request over the past week, several perpetrators asked the xAI bot to put on or remove a hijab, sari, nun's robe, or other type of modest religious or cultural clothing.In a review of 500 Grok images created between January 6 and 9, WIRED…

Scientists find exercise rivals therapy for depression

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Regular physical activity may ease symptoms of depression about as effectively as psychological therapy, according to an updated Cochrane review. When researchers compared exercise with antidepressant medication, they found similar benefits, although the certainty of that evidence was lower. Depression remains a major global health challenge, affecting more than 280 million people worldwide and contributing significantly to disability. Exercise stands out as a low cost and widely accessible option that also improves physical health, making it appealing to both patients and healthcare professionals. Inside…

Review of Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan – A tender love story beyond borders | imaginary

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Romance books,Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: "to“Love is not easy...it is both the disease and the medicine,” says one character in Manish Chauhan's meditation on modern love. This poignant and perceptive coming-of-age story, about two strangers who become conflicted lovers, is a powerful portrait of the lived reality of immigrants in Britain, and of love as home, hope and destiny.Newly arrived in England after an arranged marriage to British-Indian Rajiv, Meera feels increasingly out of place when she discovers that Rajiv harbors secrets and is in love…