“if-you’re-gonna-f*ck,-f*ck-a-queen,-if-you’re-gonna-steal,-steal-a-million”:-ukraine’s-anti-corruption-bureau-says-senior-official-ran-criminal-ring-inside-prosecutor-general’s-office

Ukraine’s anti-corruption investigators say a senior official in the Office of the Prosecutor General set up and ran a criminal organization from within the office. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) said in a statement on 5 September that the group took bribes toContinue Reading

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A Ukrainian National Guard unit says it destroyed one of Russia’s rarer electronic-warfare stations, 55 kilometers behind the front. Lasar’s Group said its own bomber drones hunted down an R-330Zh Zhitel jamming station near Sievierodonetsk in mid-summer, in a statement on its Telegram channel. The Zhitel is worth the effort.Continue Reading

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US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday., US envoys Witkoff, Kushner meet Putin for talks on Ukraine war NewsFeed US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday for talks to tryContinue Reading

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A building collapsed in Muradabad, northern India, tearing through power lines and sending sparks into the street., NewsFeed A multi-storey building collapsed in Muradabad, northern India, tearing through power lines and sending sparks into the street. Local media say it had been evacuated after cracks appeared following days of rain.Continue Reading

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The White House launched five familiar looking games, so its users can play deportation, MAHA and build the wall Published September 5, 2026 3:30PM (EDT) Arcade.gov now directs users to the White House’s online game site where familiar games are given a distinctly MAGA refurbishment. (Screenshot / WhiteHouse) The WhiteContinue Reading

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I confess that the vast majority of what I know about political influencer Hasan Piker came from this April interview he did with TNR contributor Aaron Regunberg. I’m constitutionally unsuited for that Twitch life, which isn’t a knock on livestreaming. And I opted out of the great postelection debate overContinue Reading

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A powerful new proof extends the late Maryam Mirzakhani’s work on hyperbolic surfaces, showing that most of them have an important geometric property. The result greatly advances our understanding of these exotic shapes. Associated paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12268 Read more at Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/years-after-the-early-death-of-a-math-genius-her-ideas-gain-new-life-20250303/ #science #mathematics #geometry ——– Quanta Magazine is anContinue Reading