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Protecting Profits: Big Tech’s Coalition Playbook in 2025
From Brussels to Sacramento, platform giants are striking odd‑bedfellow alliances to blunt rules that threaten their business models. In 2025, the most important story in tech regulation isn’t a single courtroom showdown or headline fine. It’s the coalition strategy. Facing…
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Peronists Stun Milei in Buenos Aires: Provincial Rout Upends Argentina’s Political Map
As a bribery scandal engulfs the presidency, voters in the country’s largest province hand a decisive win to Peronist Fuerza Patria, complicating Javier Milei’s reform push ahead of October’s midterms BUENOS AIRES Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei suffered a stinging…
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Bayrou on the Brink: Macron’s Next Move as Confidence Vote Looms
Deficit-cutting push triggers showdown in Paris; what the Élysée can do to break the gridlock
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Bridge to Beijing: Why Portugal’s Luís Montenegro Is Making a Three‑Day Visit to China
Economic pragmatism, EU trade headwinds, and Macau’s Lusophone link drive a high‑stakes first trip Portugal’s Prime Minister Luís Montenegro begins a three-day official visit to China today, his first as head of government, with a tightly scripted program in Beijing…
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Back to the War Department: Washington’s Rebrand Aims to Project Strength
Late-August maneuvering culminates in an early-September order authorizing a ‘Department of War’ secondary title—framed as a message of victory and resolve to Moscow and Beijing. The White House’s long-simmering plan to re-embrace the name “Department of War” reached its decisive…
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The Day of Leoncavallo: Raids on Building Sites, a Sea of Protesters, and Chants Against Piantedosi
After the late‑August eviction of Milan’s emblematic social center, tens of thousands filled the streets: a scaffold incursion at the “Pirellino”, eggs and firecrackers against police near the Prefecture, and a political crossfire over the city’s future. MILAN The battle…
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When the Gatekeepers Fell
How social media tilted the public square toward the extremes—and helped populists surge For years, analysts have searched for a single, simple reason behind the rise of populist movements. Immigration, stagnant wages, culture wars, and distrust in institutions all play…
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Reality Check for Reform UK’s ‘Doge’ Revolution
The party promised US‑style efficiency squads to slash waste in the English councils it won in May. By late summer, the brutal overhaul had barely begun. The promise was headline‑ready. Fresh from sweeping into town halls across England this spring,…
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Quiet Anchorage, Loud Message: Inside the Secret U.S.–Taiwan Defence Talks Before Xi’s Show of Force
As Washington downshifts overt engagement and Beijing stages a military spectacle, the stakes for Taiwan’s security — and U.S. credibility — rise. The quiet arrival of a small Taiwanese delegation in Anchorage, Alaska, late last month barely stirred local headlines.…
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DOJ Opens Criminal Probe Into Fed Governor Lisa Cook as Trump Intensifies Bid to Oust Her
Subpoenas in Georgia and Michigan escalate a late‑August showdown over the central bank’s independence; Cook denies wrongdoing and sues to keep her seat The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook,…
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