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Who’s processing your taxes? How many data centers can a state have? And how’d Wisconsin’s elections go? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of the developments...

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Kabul’s dispute with Islamabad over Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan sanctuaries is not a border quarrel. It is the clearest evidence yet that five years after seizing power, the Taliban has mastered control of Afghan territory without accepting what control is supposed to...

Opinion, Afghanistan, Afghanistan-Pakistan

At their Beijing summit on May 14, 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping asked US President Donald Trump whether China and the United States could avoid the “Thucydides Trap,” in which rivalry between a rising power and an established one ends...

China, Block 1, China Communist Party

The United States is making steady strides in a critical mineral race, which has been considered by some to be yesterday’s war that the country already lost to China. Billions of dollars invested in public-private projects combined with reforms made through...

Economy, China, Economics

US Space Command is putting offensive satellite-killing weapons at the top of its future requirements as China and Russia expand their ability to threaten satellites in orbit. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that US Space Command (SPACECOM) Commander...

Military, anti-satellite weapons, ASAT

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has blocked Shell-led exploration along the country’s Wild Coast, adding another legal setback to an offshore sector already struggling to keep pace with neighboring Namibia. The country’s highest court on Friday overturned a 2024 Supreme Court...

News

Brent heads toward a 5% weekly gain as stalled US-Iran talks and Hormuz attacks push oil prices toward $100. Friday, August 14, 2026 Crude oil prices are set to post a 5% weekly gain after this week quashed hopes (for...

News

Vietnam’s first domestically designed anti-submarine frigate marks an ambitious attempt to leverage limited naval resources to achieve asymmetric deterrence while accelerating the country’s shift toward a more self-reliant and diversified defense-industrial base. This month, multiple media outlets reported that Vietnam...

Military, Block 2, PLA Navy

Photo by Conny Schneider on Unsplash As a science fiction nerd and sometimes SF author, I am anything but a Luddite. I’m not an early adopter, but part of that is because I’m also cheap and I want the prices to...

News

A cargo of fuel oil from Malaysia is making its way to a refinery on the U.S. West Coast in the first such shipment in three years as global supply of feedstock for refineries has tightened in recent months due...

News

State Democratic officials are preparing for chaos at the polls this November, as President Donald Trump casts doubt on election security and pushes for more federal involvement in local voting. “We’re no longer talking about hypothetical situations,” said Nick Brown, Washington...

Activism, Courts & Law, News

This story was originally published by High Country News . When tired Mormon settlers crested the Wasatch Mountains in July 1847 and first beheld the Great Salt Lake, they almost didn’t believe their eyes. But this was no mirage. And though...

Environment, News, US

This story was originally published by Sentient . Plans to build the world’s first commercial octopus farm are dead. On July 22, the Port Authority of Las Palmas announced that Nueva Pescanova, the Spanish seafood giant behind the proposal, had withdrawn its...

Activism, Business & Economy, Environment

On Tuesday, three Houthi ballistic missiles slammed into the Tihamah, an Egyptian-owned cargo ship easing through Bab-el-Mandeb’s eighteen-mile channel. A fourth missile hit the rescue boats that came for survivors. Six people died — the first shipping fatalities of the...

Middle East & Africa, Analysis, Economics

The United States’ negotiations to end its war with Iran are at yet another standstill . Nearly six months after President Donald Trump announced military operations would last only a few weeks, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and Iran...

Business & Economy, Ear to the Ground, Environment

Researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and TSMC Corporate Research engineered a 0.42-nanometer aluminum-oxide interface that protects electron transport in monolayer MoS₂ transistors while enabling strong gate control. Silicon transistors are approaching physical limits that make each new generation…...

Semiconductor, TSMC, 0.42-nanometer

Kevin Rideout, who was abducted by unknown assailants in Niamey, said to be in good health and in care of US officials An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger in October has been released, his organisation has said. Serving in Mission...

Niger, US news, World news

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society has concluded a three-day youth summer camp focused on human rights, advocacy and media skills, drawing participants from across the occupied West Bank. The camp, titled “Here We Remain,” brought together adolescents...

41,44,43

Every week, the shopping lists of Iranians become shorter as inflation soars and purchasing power plunges. “As things disappear from the dining table, fruit goes first, then dairy products, then anything considered non-essential,” a woman in the Iranian capital, Tehran,...

News

A gambling licence may appear like paperwork concerned with the gambling business and lawyers. Its impacts extend far beyond. Licensing rules affect revenue, business investment, consumer confidence, and government control over money flowing through digital platforms. Online gambling also raises...

Finance, Economics, Gaming

India’s coal demand is set to jump to 1.6 billion tons in 2030, from about 1.2 billion tons now, due to higher electricity generation and industrial activity, Indian Coal Secretary Vikram Dev Dutt said on Friday. India, which is the...

News

ASML’s dominance was not born from a single invention. It emerged from four decades of systems engineering, supplier orchestration, and repeated bets on lithographic transitions that competitors judged too expensive. Founded in 1984 as a Philips–ASM joint venture, the Dutch...

Lithography, asml, chiplets

North Asian refiners have increased buying activity to secure U.S. crude oil supply as an alternative to the Middle Eastern crude that may not make it outbound from the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S.-Iran stalemate continues and the chokepoint...

News

On April 27, 2026, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz launched the Trade Over Aid Initiative from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The initiative was built on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s argument that government-to-government...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, development, trade

September WTI crude oil futures are trading at $81.19 late Thursday, up $4.11, or 5.33%, for the week. With Friday’s session still to come, the final weekly result remains unsettled. The message is clear. Traders spent the week rebuilding the...

News

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Yemen’s Houthis said they targeted Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery with two drones on Thursday, the second claimed attack on the Red Sea facility in less than a week and the third since July 25. Neither Saudi...

News

Syrian oil is clawing its way back, methodically. Onshore, the immediate issue is returning Syria’s existing oil production to Damascus. Most producing fields are concentrated in Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah in the northeast, territory Damascus lost during the civil war,...

News

Why the online enthusiasm for an “Islamic NATO” in the Middle East is largely premature? A Dividing Line The Mecca agreement has dominated headlines and social media. Commentators have rushed to label it “an Islamic NATO,” declared that “the Islamic...

Middle East, Politics, Islamic NATO

Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territory (PNN) — In a village in the hills of southern Hebron, Palestinian women are transforming an ancient cave into a living space for preserving Palestinian heritage and strengthening women's economic independence, in what they describe as a...

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How are Muslims handling money? This new mini-series from the MuslimMatters podcast is all about Muslims, money, and how on earth we’re managing it all (or aren’t!). From learning about credit card debt the hard way, to uncomfortable conversations with...

#Life, #Society, Audio

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to highlight falling violent crime rates on Friday as evidence that his law and order agenda is working, seeking to shift attention toward public safety as economic concerns weigh on his approval ratings ahead...

World News, Elections, Trump

Nairobi’s chaotic streets fuel a booming phone‑snatching economy, where thieves, boda bodas and rogue technicians turn stolen devices into cross‑border contraband. In a post made on X (reproduced verbatim), user Onjolo Kenya remarked, “Driving in Nairobi CBD needs skills. Infront of...

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Not only is a growing number of tankers moving stealthily with transponders switched off at the Middle East’s two key chokepoints, but the time of the so-called dark mode movements has extended from just a few hours to a week...

News

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Germany’s spies get powers once reserved for policeDiego Faßnacht reports that Germany’s intelligence overhaul would blur the postwar separation between...

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Low U.S. gasoline prices are the top priority of the Administration amid the war in Iran, Vice President JD Vance said, as the U.S.-Iran deadlock persists and the U.S. vowed to keep the blockade on Iran indefinitely. “I know that...

News

Tankers moving along the Strait of Hormuz dwindled further this week, with only five crossings on Wednesday and nine crossings on Thursday, down from a monthly average of 12 crossings, according to data from Kpler, as cited by Reuters. Five...

News

Chigozie Obioma’s move from Booker-shortlisted novelist to film producer has produced a box office hit. ‘ Call of My Life’ , his first producing credit, has surprisingly grossed ₦837 million at the Nigerian box office, becoming the country’s highest-grossing film of...

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China on Friday condemned Taiwan’s annual Han Kuang military exercises as a “wasteful charade”, accusing Taipei of stoking fears of war as the island conducts 10 days of drills simulating a potential Chinese attack. The comments were China’s first official...

World News, China, Security

Côte d’Ivoire’s newest cultural export may arrive at double speed. Biama, the frenetic offshoot of coupé-décalé growing out of Yopougon’s streets, has turned dance battles into laboratories of acrobatics, comedy, bravado, and viral choreography. TikTok is its accelerant, but the movement belongs...

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