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Over 10 million Lula supporters joined a WhatsApp channel to help boost his campaign., How a WhatsApp channel helped Lula win Brazil’s election NewsFeed Over 10 million Lula supporters joined a WhatsApp channel to help boost his campaign. Then he won the election with 10.3 million more votes than heContinue Reading

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Billionaires have funneled vast sums into the campaigns of Republicans at risk of losing both chambers of Congress. According to The Washington Post’s megadonor tracker, the top 50 billionaire donors have spent $2.8 billion on the midterms, favoring Republicans 2-to-1. Meanwhile, the top five Republican super PACs have outraised theirContinue Reading

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection to a fourth term by gaining ground in Brazil’s largest cities while keeping his strong support in the northeast. His geographic base is shifting and this change is clearest in Brazil’s 200 largest cities. There, Lula’s share of valid votes rose fromContinue Reading

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On October 15, a Vietnamese state-owned tanker, the PVT Azura, departed St. Petersburg with 109,000 barrels of Russian diesel. It is due at Norfolk on November 2, at a facility that the shipping journal gCaptain reports serves the American military, a detail no official has confirmed. It will be theContinue Reading

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Over the last century, modern medicine achieved a historic feat. We increased the human lifespan by 33%. But at the same time, we completely failed to defend our brain healthspan. Today, a silent gap of 15 to 30 years exists between the time our bodies survive and the time ourContinue Reading