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Stone: A not so heavenly tree

The Toledo Blade 

You are reading the gardening column, you know me, and you have at least heard of, but maybe not experienced the spotted lanternfly firsthand.

Someone Is Watching. Is It God, or Your Boss?

The Atlantic  

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation captured anxieties about the emerging surveillance state—and how it makes workers past and present feel at their job.

The Truth About High Prices

The Atlantic  

The White House simply does not have great tools to bring the cost of living under control.

How to watch Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention

Chicago Sun-Times 

The 2024 Democratic National Convention is in full swing in Chicago.

Former President Barack Obama and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are set to give prime time speeches on the second night of the convention.

The main programming begins at 6 p.m. and is set to go until 10 p.m.

The night's main events will be broadcast live from the United Center in Chicago.

Those watching from home can tune into C-SPAN's broadcast above, or watch from their YouTube channel and website.

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James Maddison shows his class with message to Gareth Southgate after Spurs star was left out of Euro 2024 squad

TheSun.co.uk 

JAMES MADDISON says he could never hate Gareth Southgate.

Even though he broke his heart by leaving him out of England’s Euro ’24 squad this summer.

GettyJames Maddison insists there is no bad blood between him and Gareth Southgate[/caption] AlamySouthgate left Maddison out of his 26-man Euro 2024 squad[/caption]

Instead, Maddison intends to harness the searing pain of that rejection to fuel his anger and frustration at being snubbed by his nation.

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On Former Pakistan Army Spy Chief’s Court Martial – OpEd

Eurasia Review 

While announcing Rawalpindi’s decision to try its own former spymaster Lt Gen Faiz Hameed [Retired] by a Field General Court Martial [FGCM], Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations [ISPR] clarified that the same was done in compliance of orders from the Supreme Court“to ascertain correctness of complaints in Top City Case made against Lt Gen Faiz Hameed (Retd).”

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When MSNBC fired Phil Donahue for airing his anti-war views

Raw Story 

The pioneering TV host Phil Donahue, who revolutionized daytime television by tackling major social and political issues in front of a studio audience, has died at the age of 88. The Phil Donahue Show, later renamed Donahue, ran from the 1960s through to 1996, and the affable host won 20 Emmy Awards and received a Peabody Award throughout his career. In 2003, Donahue was fired from his primetime MSNBC talk show for airing antiwar voices during the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, when most of... Читать дальше...

Rise in number of firms going bust, Insolvency Service says - Sky News

Top Stories (uk) - Google News (ru) 

  1. Rise in number of firms going bust, Insolvency Service says  Sky News
  2. Company insolvencies in England and Wales higher in past year than during financial crisis; gold hits record highs – as it happened  The Guardian
  3. Global markets rally on ‘soft landing’ hopes; oil at two-week low – business live  MSN
  4. Company insolvencies up 16% on July last year as cost hikes continue to bite  Evening Standard
  5. Monthly Insolvency Statistics: July 2024  Company Rescue

North telecoms dept doubles internet fees

Cyprus Mail 

The fees levied on internet and telecommunications service providers by the north’s telecommunications department were all doubled, the north’s internet service providers’ association said on Tuesday. The association said it had been informed of the price increases when they appeared in the ‘government’ gazette after an association member had “come across them by chance” while […]

Exclusive: What was really behind the FIA's F1 asymmetric brake rule change

Atlas F1 Bulletin Board 

Speculation in Formula 1 got intense during the summer break in the wake of a change the FIA made to the technical regulations outlawing asymmetrical braking systems.Off the back of the most recent FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting that ratified a host of revised and future rules, an added clause regarding braking systems set tongues wagging.The changed Article 11.1.2 of F1's Technical ...Keep reading

Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick admits he took Ozempic jab for weight loss - The Independent

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  1. Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick admits he took Ozempic jab for weight loss  The Independent
  2. Robert Jenrick: I took Ozempic but didn’t enjoy it  The Telegraph
  3. 9 times politicians reached for Ozempic — or more trad diets  POLITICO Europe
  4. Robert Jenrick: I took Ozempic to lose weight but didn’t enjoy it  The Times
  5. Top MP Robert Jenrick explains secret of his four-stone weight loss  Wales Online