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India’s election consultants are exporting covert campaign tactics to manipulate elections worldwide, including the US., New Delhi, India — In an unfurnished flat in a nondescript Ahmedabad neighbourhood in western India, a 22-year-old digital content creator worked through the nights, designing posters and editing videos for a presidential campaign thousandsContinue Reading

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October’s Linux app releases brought plenty of treats, a couple of tricks and mercifully few frights. In this post, I recap the updates that landed last month. There were other spooks in the shadows with a spotlight. October gave us a double-whammy of Firefox and Calibre updates, with JEPG XLContinue Reading

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Stevens’ endorsement exposed a bitter Democratic divide as Michigan’s closely watched Senate race nears its end Published November 1, 2026 2:00PM (EST) Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is running against GOP candidate Mike Rogers for the open U.S. Senate seat. (Salwan George / Getty Images) Rep. Haley Stevens,Continue Reading

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Iliana Iotova has won Bulgaria’s presidential runoff, becoming the country’s first elected female president., NewsFeed Iliana Iotova has won Bulgaria’s presidential runoff, becoming the country’s first elected female president. Her victory reinforces Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s political direction, including calls for dialogue with Moscow and opposition to military aid forContinue Reading

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Retired Supreme Court Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul says India’s central government told the court’s collegium the country wasn’t ready for an openly gay judge while it sat on Senior Advocate Saurabh Kirpal‘s appointment to the Delhi High Court. Kaul, who retired in December 2023, has been giving interviews ahead ofContinue Reading

Planetary defense: How military and civil satellites are watching fireballs to help keep Earth safe from space rocks

A bright fireball from the Perseid meteor shower streaks across the sky above a lakeside grassland at Amuta Scenic Area on Aug. 13, 2026 in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province of China. (Image credit: Chi Shiyong/VCG via Getty Images) It came from outer space, exploding high above the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina. That AprilContinue Reading