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Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Moves From Defense to Counterattack

The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings and the 2024 election.

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Jack Smith still has the capacity to inflict significant political damage by discrediting the MAGA narrative that President Trump did nothing wrong.
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After Fleeing a Massacre, Survivors Encountered Still More Gunfire and Abductions

Thousands of people who witnessed atrocities have tried to escape El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region since paramilitary fighters seized that city in late October.

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Displaced Sudanese at the Tawila aid camp on Sunday after having fled El Fasher, a city in the Darfur region that fell the previous weekend.
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China Started Separating Its Economy From the West Years Ago

Two decades of sustained effort to build national self-reliance and minimize imports have antagonized trade partners but fortified what a senior adviser called Beijing’s “bulwark” against conflicts.

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China is able to pressure the U.S. economy, while making it harder for Washington to block China.
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How A.I. Is Transforming Dating Apps

Meet your artificial intelligence matchmakers. These A.I. tools are changing dating apps, so users don’t have to swipe through an endless scroll of profiles.

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WTA Finals tennis: Rybakina beats Swiatek; Anisimova v Keys to come – live

  • Updates from group-stage clashes in Riyadh

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Rybakina again finds herself behind on serve and, down 15-30, hits a decent forehand. But forced to come in and volley, she’s tentative, dumping into the net, and must now face two further break points. This time, though, she finds the booming deliveries she needs to make deuce, and from there she closes out for 3-1 Swiatek.

Swiatek consolidates easily, sealing the deal with an ace, and you can feel her intensity assaulting you through the screen. She leads 3-0, and Rybakina needs to keep the head while finding some first serves.

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© Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters

© Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters

© Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters

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‘We’ve planted the apple that fell on Newton’s head’: the artists striking back against the climate emergency

From cultivating a spiral-shaped orchard to finding lost glaciers and dressing up as a landmark bird, on 4 November artists around the UK will participate in Remember Nature, a day of activism to offer hope for the future

Back in 2015, well into the twilight of his life, the artist and activist Gustav Metzger decided to embark on one last big project. Best known as the inventor of auto-destructive art – a response, he said, to the destructive horrors of the Holocaust – Metzger had also, over the course of a long career, been an inspirational teacher to Pete Townshend of the Who and campaigned for numerous causes including nuclear disarmament and vegetarianism. Now, on a video message barely three minutes long, he was making one final plea.

“I, Gustav Metzger, am asking for your participation in this worldwide call for a day of action to remember nature on November 4th, 2015,” he began, appealing to creatives to take a stand against the ongoing erasure of species. “Our task is to remind people of the richness and complexity in nature … and by doing so art will enter territories that are inherently creative.”

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© Photograph: Edward Thompson/Edward Thompson courtesy of Turner Contemporary

© Photograph: Edward Thompson/Edward Thompson courtesy of Turner Contemporary

© Photograph: Edward Thompson/Edward Thompson courtesy of Turner Contemporary

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