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There’s only one winner in the battle between Maga and Silicon Valley

How’s this for irony? Never in American political history has the business class – or more accurately, one noisy part of it – jumped so enthusiastically on to a presidential bandwagon. But never has a president needed them less. Trump’s core Maga vote is strongly anti-globalisation. This year his campaign acquired the support of wealthy supporters …
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Jaiswal dismissed as third umpire sees ‘conclusive evidence’ to overturn not-out decision

There was no murmur on Snicko, but third umpire Sharfuddoula saw a big deflection on normal replays and made up his mind
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Analysis: Jimmy Carter never appointed a Supreme Court justice, but he left a remarkable judicial legacy

Jimmy Carter, who served a single full presidential term without the chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, nonetheless left behind an incomparable judicial legacy.
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Germany calls for new sanctions on Russia’s dark fleet that is ‘damaging major undersea cables’ nearly every month

Finland said last week it detained a ship that may be from Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers as part of a probe into a damaged undersea cable.
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Trump Says H-1B Visas Are ‘Great.’ That’s Good News for Amazon, Tesla, and Google Stocks.

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What’s Trending: 2024 Top Google Trends

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Google reveals northeast Wisconsin’s top searches of 2024

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Year in Review: What Made the News in America in 2024

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Elon Musk backtracks on defending skilled migrant visas to calm Maga Republicans

Elon Musk has rowed back on his defence of skilled worker visas in an apparent bid to patch up divisions in the Republican Party. The Tesla billionaire admitted that H1-B visas are “broken” and proposed potential reform, as he sought to quell a brewing civil war with Donald Trump’s Maga base over the immigration scheme which permits highly-educated…
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BONUS: A biography and a memoir reexamine Jimmy Carter’s extraordinary life : NPR’s Book of the Day

Former president Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old. In today’s episode, two books examine Carter’s career in the White House and beyond. First, NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Kai Bird about The Outlier, a biography that argues that Carter’s deregulation of several industries, his social legislation and his foreign policy made his one-term presidency exceptionally productive. Then, a conversation from the vault between NPR’s Eric Westervelt and Carter himself about his memoir, A Full Life.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR’s book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookoftheday