Wed 24 June 2026: It tends to start with a violent assault. Then video documentation of the incident quickly circulates online, priming people to see not just an individual crime but a broader story about perceived dangerous outsiders. So it was on June 8, 2026, when an assailant badly injured a man in an evening […]
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Wed 24 June 2026: US President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a 2025 phone call that “all the Jews are sick of you,” during efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, according to a book published Tuesday by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. The book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial […]
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Wed 24 June 2026: French Education Minister Edouard Geffray announced Wednesday that cell phones will be banned in high schools starting Sept. 1. Geffray told broadcaster Franceinfo that the law banning mobile phones will be published over the summer, leading to its implementation starting in September. “It will be September 1 because the law will […]
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Tue 23 June 2026: The days of tuning in to the six o’clock news are long over. News audiences are increasingly fragmented, and more than half of us now get our news from social media. This trend is particularly pronounced for younger people, with three in four coming across news on social platforms. And 57% of children […]
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Tue 23 June 2026: Frontier AI models are ‘fundamentally transforming’ offensive cyber capabilities, intelligence officials say. Cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology is poised to supercharge offensive hacking capabilities, and urgent action is needed to face up to the threat, US, UK, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand officials have said. “Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed […]
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Mon 22 June 2026: Israel faces a growing aging crisis amid warnings over a future welfare deficit and mounting pressure on state institutions, according to a report published Sunday by the Israeli Haaretz daily. The newspaper cited State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman as warning that Israel had failed to build a coordinated national response to its […]
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Two enslaved people: Ayuba Suleiman Diallo and Abdul Rahman Ibrahima ibn Sori. Mon 22 June 2026: Muslims in the United States often face negative stereotyping and suspicion. Especially in the years following 9/11, Muslims have been frequently cast as outsiders. What many may not know is that Muslims have been part of the American story since its founding. […]
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Poster of the “Forbes 250 Immigrants” feature, displaying portrait photographs of prominent living figures, including Jensen Huang, Rupert Murdoch, Sundar Pichai, Charlize Theron, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Photo via forbes.com) Mon 22 June 2026: Forbes magazine has featured 250 outstanding individuals on its new list of the most successful living immigrants in America, highlighting their profound […]
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Sat 20 June 2026: Can technology really replace human relationships? As philosophy scholars who focus on human happiness and on artificial intelligence (AI), we tackle this question in a recent paper. In our study, we address the rise of AI companions, chatbots, and social robots for friendship, advice, emotional support, and even romance. We argue that AI […]
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Sat 20 June 2026: The United Nations has warned that the world’s oceans are facing a rapidly worsening crisis, with marine ecosystems under “severe and intensifying” stress from human activities, while the rate of global sea-level rise has doubled over the past decade. Released to coincide with World Oceans Day, the UN’s third World Ocean […]
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