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Yonette Joseph

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NYT editor/shape shifter. “I am alive, and drunk in sunlight.” -George RR Martin, "A Storm of Swords"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h
Food delivery robots across the U.S. are touching a nerve for many Americans who are concerned about A.I. technology. The machines have been kicked, beaten and tipped over. trib.al/12mt4MC
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 6h
Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious use of AI or nuclear conflict, according to a new global risk assessment www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 7h
Cecily “Chips” Gemmell, Winston Churchill’s last surviving personal secretary, who took down the British prime minister’s speeches as he composed them aloud, died on Thursday in New York City. She was 97. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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Cecily Gemmell Has Died. She Was Churchill’s Last Surviving Secretary. (Gift Article)
Starting with the British leader at age 18, she traveled the world with him. “I was terrified of him,” she later recalled.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 8h
The Trump WH suspended CNN from the WH, so CNN could not participate in the news pool. Now the Justice Dept is investigating whether ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox violated federal antitrust laws when the group suspended pooled coverage of Trump in solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage (Gift Article)
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 10h
The F.B.I. has arrested a Canadian cybersecurity expert in Pennsylvania on suspicion of carrying out the computer hack that stole sensitive information about thousands of F.B.I. employees www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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F.B.I. Arrests Key Suspect in ShinyHunters Hack of Its Own Agents’ Data (Gift Article)
The hack left the nation’s premier law enforcement agency racing to respond as both the victim and the investigator of a murky group that threatened to expose agents’ personal information.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h
Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h
Breaking News: At least 12 people were killed and 50 more were injured in a Houthi attack on an airport in the Saudi capital, officials said. The strike was the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab country since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February.
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Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Airport Attacked Again, After Days of Houthi Strikes
The strike on Saturday was the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab country since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February, and forced the airport to temporarily suspend operations.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 14h
Video shows the loading terminal of Russia’s Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery on fire following a Ukrainian drone attack.
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Ukraine strikes major Russian oil hub hours after Trump's deal with Putin
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h
Seven sets of human remains found on the grounds of the governor’s residence in Bismarck, North Dakota, are believed to have been overlooked when a cemetery that was once on the site was moved in the 1870s, according to state officials.
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7 Coffins Are Found Near North Dakota Governor’s Residence
The bodies are believed to have been overlooked when a cemetery at the current site of the governor’s residence in Bismarck was moved in the 1870s, during the capital’s early settlement period.
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 12h
Nicolas Cage Teases ‘True Detective’ Role, Says He “Probably” Won’t Work With Prime Video Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’
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Nicolas Cage Teases ‘True Detective’ Role, Says He “Probably” Won’t Work With Prime Video Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’
Nicolas Cage says he wants to work with more Gen Z directors as Hollywood studios push more into AI.Cage swung by New York Comic Con on Saturday morning, amid work on the film Perish in Minneapolis, as part of a “Spotlight” panel that spanned a career of critically acclaimed roles, action blockbusters, and indie and cult classics.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h
Breaking news: The Pentagon acknowledged that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops killed during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 12h
Zelensky, Trump said, “wants to make problems for the world.” “I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/w...
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Rebuking Ukraine Over Oil Strikes, Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’ (Gift Article)
Hours after President Trump said the United States would buy Russian diesel, the Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 13h
Christa Pike has been discharged from a hospital and moved to a rehabilitation center, according to her attorneys and the Tennessee Department of Correction, 10 days after a failed attempt by Tennessee to execute her www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Christa Pike discharged from hospital, 10 days after failed execution
Pike, who survived an execution attempt in Tennessee, has been moved to a rehabilitation center, according to her attorneys and the Tennessee Department of Correction.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 14h
One police officer was killed and another was badly wounded early Saturday, when a man ambushed them on the porch of a house in West Philadelphia www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...
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One Philadelphia Police Officer Killed, Another Shot 12 Times in Ambush Attack (Gift Article)
Two officers responding to a call were shot multiple times as they reached the scene. Officials said they took “significant fire.”
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 17h
Trump showers voters with checks and tax relief in final sprint to midterms. From diesel tax breaks to direct checks, the president is attempting to break through to economically anxious voters. wapo.st/4eqY9jI
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Trump showers voters with checks and tax relief in final sprint to midterms
From diesel tax breaks to direct checks, the president is attempting to break through to economically anxious voters.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 20h
Should You Put Your Books in the Freezer to Get Rid of Weird Smells and Pests? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
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Should You Put Your Books in the Freezer? (Gift Article)
Silverfish, book lice and mold are a thing, especially in secondhand books. Here’s how to deal with them.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 21h
Economic Pain and an Unpopular Trump Put G.O.P. on its Heels With Three Weeks to Go www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...
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Economic Pain and an Unpopular Trump Put G.O.P. on its Heels With Three Weeks to Go (Gift Article)
Inflation has hurt Americans at many levels: Farmers, truckers, consumers. It has also expanded the electoral map into what was safely Republican country just a few months ago.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 09/10/2026
At least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions to avoid participating in the firing squad execution of Nidal Mikal Hasan, a nonprofit leader told The Sun. www.washingtonsun.com/defense/sold...
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Soldiers Are Already Looking for a Way Out of Hegseth’s Livestreamed Firing Squad
At least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions, a nonprofit leader told The Sun. More are expected to follow.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/10/2026
President Trump’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence.
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How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil
The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 22h
How a Small Chinese Bank Gave Moscow Access to Wall St. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
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How Correspondent Banking Can Enable Sanctions Evasion (Gift Article)
The correspondent system for banking has enabled globalism — and has been exploited by companies trying to skirt U.S. sanctions.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 23h
Trump has urged the Supreme Court to wade into his years long legal battle with former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and ex-Justice Department officials over the 2016 election, appealing a case that a lower court concluded was “frivolous.” www.cnn.com/2026/10/09/p...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to revive his 2016 election lawsuit against Hillary Clinton | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court on Friday to wade into his years long legal battle with former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and ex-Justice Department officials over t...
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, lfilled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (Gift Article)
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/10/2026
An artificial intelligence system designed by Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia police, the latest incident of AI agents acting in ways that weren’t intended.
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AI system submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
Anthropic’s AI agent used an online tip line to suggest it had information about an unsolved murder.
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Yahoo News @yahoonews.com · 10/10/2026
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Southern California surfers are being diagnosed with a bizarre ‘tumor’ condition
Surfers have long braved shark bites, reef scrapes, and the dreaded "surfer's ear."
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Anthropic said Friday that its artificial intelligence agents, acting on their own, attempted to gain access to several federal, state and local government websites. The company did not name the agencies, but said it had briefed the White House. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites (Gift Article)
The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump” www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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Nobel peace prize winner Navi Pillay jokes about sharing award with Donald Trump – video
The South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, who is an ad hoc judge at the international court of justice, has won a Nobel her efforts to promote peace and international...
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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‘Lincoln in the Bardo’: A Preview of the Met Opera Adaptation (Gift Article)
In an ethereal costume and surrounded by puppets, Anthony Roth Costanzo sang an aria from the operatic adaptation of George Saunders’s 2017 novel.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ken Paxton was in a federal building in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2014 when government lawyers grilled him under oath about his growing wealth and questionable investing history. He said a donor gave him stocks to please God. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God (Gift Article)
The leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s investments and his tactics for defending himself.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is something. Trump said Friday he had reached an agreement with Putin to immediately import Russian diesel fuel to the U.S., undercutting U.S. sanctions. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Trump Says He Will Import Russian Diesel Fuel Amid High Prices (Gift Article)
President Trump said Russia had agreed to ship potentially millions of tons of diesel fuel in the coming months. But the amounts would be small relative to global demand.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ashley St. Clair, a former right-wing influencer and mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, was offered $40 million for silence on Musk. She spoke out instead. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/m...
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Ashley St. Clair Was Offered Millions for Her Silence on Elon Musk. She Spoke Out Instead. (Gift Article)
In the documentary “Musk,” Ashley St. Clair, a former right-wing influencer and mother of one of Musk’s children, speaks about her relationship with him.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The walk-back begins www.bbc.com/news/article...
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JD Vance casts doubt on firing squad execution and says he won't watch it
The planned execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad would be the first military execution in more than 60 years.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: President Trump has cast doubt on U.S. elections at least once on 440 days of his second term, nearly three-quarters of his days in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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All the Ways Trump Has Attacked Elections In His Second Term (Gift Article)
President Trump has attacked the integrity of U.S. elections on more than 70 percent of the days since he returned to office, repeatedly making false claims. Here’s how he does it.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Legendary Bears Coach Mike Ditka has died at 86 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/s...
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Mike Ditka, Fiery Coach of the Chicago Bears, Has Died (Gift Article)
After coaching, he became one of the sport’s most visible and enduring talking heads. He died at 86.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“.. Beyond disgusting,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a frequent critic of Hegseth, said on X. “Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do. It should not be happening in America.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump on Friday said the White House had formed a committee to investigate Lisa Cook, a governor at the Federal Reserve, and would hold a hearing Nov. 5 to consider unproven accusations that she committed mortgage fraud. Trump demanded that Cook attend to answer questions.
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Trump Announces White House Inquiry Into Fed Governor Lisa Cook (Gift Article)
President Trump said the White House would investigate unsubstantiated claims that Lisa D. Cook committed mortgage fraud and hold a hearing next month.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“He’s clearly not helping. He wants me to lose,” Paxton said of Cornyn, according to an audio recording obtained by CNN www.cnn.com/2026/10/09/p...
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‘He wants me to lose’: Paxton complains about lack of support from Cornyn in leaked audio | CNN Politics
Ken Paxton has publicly said he would “love to have” John Cornyn’s support after their bruising Republican primary runoff in the Texas Senate race. But privately, Paxton has grown frustrated with the ...
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, said Pillay had not yet been told that she had won the award. “My message to her would be if you see a Norwegian number calling, please pick up,” he said. “I would love to talk to you very soon.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Nobel Prizes come with a financial award, which this year is 12 million Swedish kronor per prize, or about $1.2 million.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Last year, a UN commission led by Pillay that investigated the war in Gaza found that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians. The Israeli government denounced the report
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Navanethem “Navi” Pillay is a South African human rights lawyer who fought against the apartheid regime.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Former U.N. human rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a judge on the International Court of Justice, won the Nobel Peace Prize www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Live Updates: Navi Pillay Wins Nobel Peace Prize
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Harry said he "slipped into depression for about two weeks" after relocating to Canada in 2019 ahead of his move to the US www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Harry says he 'slipped into depression' after leaving UK for Canada
The Duke of Sussex says he had an "adrenaline crash" while visiting Vancouver Island to "get some space".
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/s...
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‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Virginia county sues to block Trump from building his 250-foot-tall triumphal arch www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Trump Says U.S. Will Not Strike Iran Again Before Midterms as Military Draws Up New Plans (Gift Article)
The U.S. military has drafted options for three days of strikes, but in recent months the president has repeatedly vetoed plans to restart the war.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Senate Judiciary Democrats are asking Chair Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith on the behalf of his GOP committee members — especially for Republican Eric Schmitt. The letter also demands Grassley turn over the underlying records Schmitt used during the hearing.
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Democrats call on Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith for basketball gaffe
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Republicans violated Senate rules.
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