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As data centres scale, consume more power, and draw tighter community scrutiny, insurance risks are becoming increasingly complex. As AI infrastructure grows, so do legal risks: large lawsuits involving data centres more than tripled from four in all of 2021...

News

There is a question Christians have been asking for generations: What would Jesus do? It is a deceptively simple question that is printed on bracelets and bumper stickers, taught to children in Sunday schools, and invoked when Christians are discerning how...

War & Peace, Christian nationalism, pete hegseth

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 32%, marking the lowest point in his political career, as revealed by a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The poll showed a decrease in approval among Republicans, with only 73% supporting Trump compared to...

Finance, Economics, USA

Volkswagen’s luxury brand Porsche has become a significant issue for CEO Oliver Blume’s restructuring plans at the company. Just a few years after a successful initial public offering, Porsche is facing difficulties, especially in the Chinese market, and is struggling...

Economy, Analysis, Cars

While the Russian army is on its heels in Ukraine, the Kremlin is engaging in trade wars with fellow members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The EAEU is ostensibly supposed to promote free trade among the five member states, not hinder it....

News

The premise that the Sun is an unusually quiet star-a stability often credited with allowing complex life to evolve on Earth-is being challenged. Natalie Krivova of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research has presented evidence suggesting that our...

Science

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...

Members, The Ukraine Compass

This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : Advanced artificial intelligence is scary — but are we afraid of the wrong thing ? 👀 Watch : How Citizens United and “ corruption...

Lever Daily

Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from an experimental aid to a foundational part of semiconductor engineering. In a recent industry talk, leaders from ChipAgents and Analog Devices described how agentic AI could help chipmakers manage soaring design complexity, accelerate product...

ChipAgents AI, EDA, Events

Bitcoin has surged above $85,000 this morning for the first time since late-January... The rally comes alongside advances in stocks and bonds, as falling oil prices and optimism ahead of a summit between US President Trump and China’s Xi Jinping...

News

QatarEnergy CEO and Qatar Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi says the Strait of Hormuz crisis could delay the company's LNG expansion because critical equipment cannot reach Qatar, Reuters reported on Monday. North Field East's first production train remains on schedule for...

News

California’s billionaires, individually and collectively , are spending wildly to try to defeat the state initiative that would tax their wealth. If you watch TV or use social media in California, you’ve likely already been inundated with scaremongering that forecasts...

Activism, Business & Economy, Courts & Law

The following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack. A version of this article was originally published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Sept. 11. You can read the entire article on the Bulletin’s website . A new nuclear policy...

Column, Courts & Law, Military

The climate scam

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You all know how I feel about the climate change bunch. I do feel like the climate has shifted a bit from where it was when I was younger. I just can’t buy the idea that humans are responsible when...

News

Hungary is asking U.S. officials not to levy tariffs on the central European country which still buys Russian oil, in what could be a test for the new Hungarian leader who won a landslide election victory over President Trump’s ally...

News

The first Trump administration wasted no time in weakening many rights and legal protections for women in the workplace, but it’s been outpaced by Trump ’s second administration — with two years left to go. This executive war on the concept...

Courts & Law, Ear to the Ground, Labor

The surge in wholesale natural gas prices is set to pass through the retail and electricity inflation in the Eurozone faster than in the past, the European Central Bank (ECB) said in its Economic Bulletin on Monday. While the pass-through...

News

Australia’s Family First party has called on the federal government to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and investigate organizations it says may be linked to the movement. The call was made in a media release issued on 18 September by Lyle...

Terrorism, Australia, Muslim Brotherhood

The Trump administration is preparing to impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) as part of a broader effort to weaken the institution that prosecutes severe crimes. This move follows the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli officials,...

Reports, Economics, ICC

A pre-inquest review opened today into the killing of three British citizens working as security consultants for World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza. James ‘Jim’ Henderson, 33, James Kirby, 47, and John Chapman, 57, were among seven aid workers killed in...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

Analog Bits is expanding its role in advanced semiconductor design with new intellectual property aimed at one of the industry’s most difficult problems: delivering, monitoring, and managing power inside increasingly complex chips. The company announced that its IP will be included...

Analog Bits, IP, analog bits

At the launch of his book Deeper Ground, Darker Shadows in Manila a few weeks ago, Eddie Quitoriano asked, “How did the New People’s Army ‘s image change from being the ‘Nice People Around’ to one of being only interested...

Democracy & Governance, New People's Army, Philippines

“Ocean of Peace”—an expression being bandied about by a handful of Pacific Island leaders — brings to mind the title of an early 1960s musical, “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.” The main idea behind “Ocean of Peace”...

Opinion, Fiji, Pacific Island Forum

Chinese shipping company Sea Legend has launched a weekly service between China and Europe on the Northern Sea Route along the coast of Russia, opening a seasonal alternative to the Suez Canal. A South Korean vessel is following in its...

Trade, Block 3, China Shipping

Global stocks recovered on Monday as stronger evidence of artificial intelligence demand boosted technology shares, while a retreat in oil prices eased some of the pressure that has weighed on global bond markets. MSCI’s All World index rose 0.3%, while...

Economy, Artificial Intelligence, Economics

As public backlash builds against corporate interests buying up youth sports and price gouging families, the nation’s largest youth hockey operator has insisted it “is not owned by a private equity firm and has nothing to do with Wall Street.”...

Private Equity

Britain’s relationship with Israel is entering a new phase as the E1 settlement dispute collides with wider struggles over the Red Sea, Gaza’s energy resources, IMEC, intelligence technology and post-Brexit influence. As London pressures Israel while maintaining strategic cooperation, the...

Europe, Israel, Politics

Denmark, Greenland and the United States are set to sign a security agreement that Copenhagen says will give NATO a larger role in protecting the Arctic, potentially shifting responsibility beyond the United States and Denmark alone. The agreement is expected...

World News, Defense, Greenland

Religion and collective resilience are beacons of hope in an electricity-deprived DRC in this otherworldly documentary debut In Nelson Makengo’s feature documentary debut, night stretches on to infinity. The film opens on a black screen – a void of darkness –...

Film, Documentary films, Democratic Republic of the Congo

What do a rare earth mine in Brazil and a graphite mine in Mozambique have in common? Both have received significant United States government funding. The rub? Neither was subject, when the financing was committed, to the corporate governance standards...

Cogs of War, Critical Minerals, Defense Finance

When the M-1943 field jacket was introduced at the height of World War II, it was a revolutionary garment. The jacket was the result of rigorous testing, input from an astonishingly diverse group of experts, and was produced by the...

Commentary, Army, United States

Southeast Asia’s rapid economic integration has long been a celebrated success story, and nowhere is this more evident today than in its retail payment systems. Across the region, central banks are linking their national QR code protocols under the ASEAN...

Opinion, AI Scams, Artificial Intelligence

Elbridge Colby, the US undersecretary of defense for policy, wants to make American nuclear threats more credible to make nuclear war less likely. However, achieving the first objective may undermine the second. In recent remarks to the US Strategic Command...

Military, Block 1, Elbridge Colby

Carlos Lopes, formerly the head of the Economic Commission of Africa, is one of the continent’s foremost thinkers, academics and writers. His essays include Africa is the Future of the World. He has been appointed as an advisor to the...

In Conversation, Interview, AfDB

Main image: Members of the public react as the body of the late King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV makes its way to Karambi Royal Tombs for burial in Fort Portal, Uganda, on September 12, 2026. An emotional and bitter...

Inside Africa, Politics, Uganda

Crude oil prices started the week with a slide, moving down to the lowest in a week on renewed hopes about a diplomatic resolution of the war in the Middle East, despite the absence of any evidence that there is...

News

By Anis Chowdhury SYDNEY, Sep 21 2026 (IPS) The UN General Assembly will soon vote – most likely favourably – on Bangladesh’s request to postpone the country’s graduation from the UN’s Least Developed Country (LDC) category, currently scheduled for November this year....

Aid, Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid

A group of armed defectors from the RSF arrives in the west of Omdurman on 19 August 2026. Credit: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Sep 21 2026 (IPS) Sudan’s civil war grinds on. It’s close to three and a half years since...

Active Citizens, Africa, Aid
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