AI chatbots could be making you stupider As large language models take over more and more cognitive tasks, researchers are warning this mental outsourcing comes with a cost.

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Former minister Catherine McKenna blasts the heads of Canadian oil companies Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says the leaders of Canada’s oil industry are figures close to American President Donald Trump who are “taking us for fools” and putting both the economy ...

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Like so much else Trump has done, he’s turned what was once a great department into a fucking mess. And it frankly breaks my heart.

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Martin Regg Cohn: Doug Ford flew dangerously off-course when he bought a jet Flying a $28.9-million executive jet across the country and the continent is off-brand for a Teflon premier. Which makes it more likely to stick, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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'It's so chaotic': Humpback whales are forming super-groups On a misty morning in December, two photographers captured the images of 304 individual humpbacks – the highest number of large whales ever identified in a single day.

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Opinion | The Great Hesitation

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SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Carney says Canada’s economic ties with US are a weakness that must be corrected

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Myanmar military regime widens sanitary towel ban, claiming rebels use them for first aid Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rights

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‘The U.S. has changed and we must respond,’ says PM Carney in direct address In a direct address to the nation, Prime Minister Mark Carney has reframed Canada's long-standing relationship with the United States as a 'weakness' that must be urgently corrected under the shadow o...

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One-time GST top-up to land in Canadians' accounts in June, Grocery Benefit in July | CBC News The Liberal government's groceries benefit and GST top-up announced in January will begin landing in Canadians' bank accounts in June.

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England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough review – like one of our last meetings with an adored relative The naturalist revisits the family of apes he had a goosebump-inducingly famous encounter with 50 years ago. You’ll find yourself overcome with awe for the man

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UN aid chief warns of possible ‘full-scale famine’ in South Sudan UN aid chief Tom Fletcher says that South Sudan is at risk of slipping into 'full-scale famine and collapse’.

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Cooperation between Ankara, Seoul has grown stronger: South Korean official - Both nations can develop new military equipment, expand market on global scale, says Jeong Yeon-doo | Anadolu

Cooperation between Ankara, Seoul has grown stronger: South Korean official

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How 50 days of the Iran war led to the loss of $50 billion worth of oil More than 500 million ​barrels of crude and condensate have been knocked out of the global market, according to Kpler data - the ⁠largest energy supply disruption in modern history.

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Tehran says US President Trump made ‘false’ claims, amid peace negotiations Tens of thousands of people forcibly displaced by Israeli attacks on Lebanon use first day of ceasefire to return home.

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Women in Germany fight back against digital harassment More and more women are speaking out about violence in relationships and are demanding stricter laws, including for deepfakes. The case of Collien Fernandes, a victim of online harassment, has trigger...

Women in Germany fight back against digital harassment

More & more women are speaking out about violence in relationships and are demanding stricter laws, including for deepfakes. The case of Collien Fernandes, a victim of online harassment, has triggered many protests.
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As a Catholic, I’ve struggled with the church - but I applaud the pope’s call for peace | Margaret Sullivan These days, I’m feeling more aligned with Catholicism than I have since my first communion. I’m not alone in that

"These days, I’m feeling more aligned with Catholicism than I have since my first communion. I’m not alone in that," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.

EU officials arrive in Hungary for high-stakes talks with Magyar’s government Departing PM Viktor Orbán admits ‘political era has ended’ as EU says ‘clock is ticking’ to resolve important issues

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Israel will break the part of the ceasefire pertaining to them and Lebanon. It has broken every ceasefire since it started the Gaza genocide in 2023.

Canadian bishops speak out amid Trump's spat with Pope Leo XIV over Middle East A group representing Catholic bishops across Canada is speaking out against using images of Christ for political rhetoric after U.S. President Donald Trump posted religious pictures on social media am...

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Trump and Iranian foreign minister say Strait of Hormuz is fully open U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister said Friday that the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to commercial vessels, as a 10-day truce in Lebanon appeared to hold.

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A convicted felon as President of the United States talking about removing criminals is the very definition of hypocrisy.

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason

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Limited ship traffic near Hormuz as 14 vessels move through strait amid US blockade Shipping data for last 24 hours as of 0900GMT show 14 vessel movements -- 5 west to east and 9 east to west | Anadolu

Limited ship traffic near Hormuz as 14 vessels move through strait amid US blockade

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ANALYSIS | Iran war becomes economic battle of who can handle blockade pain | CBC News The war between the U.S. and Iran has shifted from being fought with missiles to a battle of blockades, so a key question now becomes which country can better withstand the economic pain.

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