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Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 foreigners in 2024, as well as more than 150 of its own citizens, both figures are the highest in decades, most of the foreigners were from Pakistan, Yemen and Syria and most were convicted of drug-related crimes

World

US opens military base in Poland less than 160 km from Kaliningrad, is the first US base in the country and will focus on air defense
Donald Trump wins the presidential election and becomes the first person in over 120 years to lose the White House and win it back again, won in all swing states and also won the popular vote
Greenland court extends the detention of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson for additional three weeks pending possible extradition to Japan, was arrested in July connection with refueling of his ship in Greenland's capital Nuuk on a 2012 Japanese arrest warrant stemming from a 2010 incident in which Watson is accused of causing damage to a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic
Elon Musk has held several conversations with Vladimir Putin since the end of 2022 according to anonymous sources to the Wall Street Journal, the article points out that Putin allegedly asked Musk not to activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to China's leader Xi Jinping but does not write anything about whether the request was obeyed
Russia hosts BRICS summit with leaders from over 30 countries such as China, India and Turkey as well as UN Secretary General António Guterres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the spokesman for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, says Russia is increasingly isolated on the world stage
Supposed secret US intelligence documents revealing details of Israel's preparations for a potential attack on Iran are published by the Iran-linked Telegram account Middle East Spectator, no comments yet from either the Pentagon or the US Director of National Intelligence and the authenticity has not been independently verified by the publication Axios
The case regarding the European Commission's refusal to allow the New York Times access to text messages between Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen regarding the vaccine agreement will be brought before the Court of Justice of the European Union in November
French authorities declare a curfew and ban protests in its overseas territory of Martinique in the Caribbean after riots over high food prices left one dead and 26 injured police, protests began in early September
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, which comprises survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, for their efforts toward achieving a world free from nuclear weapons
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić discuss the two countries' possible military cooperation at a meeting in Belgrade, 2023 Serbia canceled plans to buy drones from Turkey since they had been delivered to Kosovo

Miscellaneous

Quincy Jones dies at 91, produced Michael Jackson's Thriller album, wrote award-winning film scores and worked with artists including Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles, died just days before receiving honorary Oscar
Canned air from Lake Como being sold for 10 euros to tourists, marketed in Menaggio and Lenno and at restaurants by the lake since October, Davide Abagnale from Italy Comunica believes American visitors are attracted to the area after George Clooney bought a villa there
Burial site from the Viking age with bone remains from people and dogs as well as three ships found during excavations outside Varberg in Sweden, the soil on the site has been cultivated so according to project manager Petra Nordin, everything has had to be analyzed from below
There is definitely a resurgence in interest in folklore among young people according to actor and writer Charlie Cooper who is currently making the BBC series Charlie Cooper's Myth Country, Siân Powell who makes content about Cornish and Welsh folklore has 90,000 followers on Tiktok and Professor Matthew Cheeseman at the University of Derby says the topic can be attractive for the sense of rootedness it provides
Football star Kylian Mbappé suspected of rape after a party night in Stockholm but calls the accusations fake news, is said to have landed with private plane on Wednesday and with his friend, the soccer player Nordi Mukiele, booked the entire nightclub V for private parties on Wednesday and Thursday during which there was a total phone ban
South Korean Han Kang is awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature with the motivation ”for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”
Jack the Ripper was Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, according to DNA analysis of object from crime scene, author Russell Edwards says that Kosminski had contacts involved with freemasonry which might have helped him escape justice
18 audience members in Stuttgart, Germany need medical care after the radical feminist opera Sancta Susanna, about a nun who discovers her own sexuality, by the German Paul Hindemith from 1921 now has been performed for the first time as the premiere a hundred years ago was canceled , contains lesbians scenes, real blood, nudity and Jesus spanking a half-naked nun
3D map of Iceland in the resolution of 2.5 meters is made public by the company Loftmydnir which used data collected over 30 years through aeroplane photos instead of satellite photos which is the approach most often used in creating 3D maps
The actor and country artist Kris Kristofferson passes away at the age of 88, born in 1936 as the son of a Swedish father, perhaps best known for the song Me & Bobby McGee, as a member of the band The Highwaymen and his acting roles in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973 ), A Star Is Born (1976) and the Blade trilogy (1998-2004) among others

Media

Milo Yiannopoulos makes comeback as a manager of disreputable celebrities, new company Tarantula has had Azealia Banks, Ariel Pink, Martin Shkreli and Ye as clients, Yiannopoulos also works undercover for the Trump family and helped them get rid of Laura Loomer
Alex Jones' media companies including Infowars are taken over by The Onion after bankruptcy auction, new owner intends to turn site into a parody of the kind of material it previously produced, Jones says he'll stay in studio and continue broadcasting until physically removed
FBI raid on Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan after platform gained attention for predicting Donald Trump's election victory, suspected political retaliation for challenging traditional polling and media processes
The Guardian stops posting on X, referring to how the platform has developed under Elon Musk with allegedly toxic far-right content and influence on the US presidential election, Musk responds that the newspaper is irrelevant and a vile propaganda machine
Joe Rogan's three-hour interview with Donald Trump difficult to find on Youtube who cites technical problems, Kamala Harris's campaign requires a different recording location and a one-hour time limit for the vice president to appear on the podcast, and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance's visit scheduled for Wednesday
Mel Gibson is working on a television series about the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 and was recently on a visit to the island where he met the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela, says the story of the 700 knights who won when they defended Malta against the attacks of the Ottomans is incredible
Alex Jones' media company Infowars will be sold in parts at an auction after an order by federal judge due to pay the USD 1 billion Jones was sentenced to pay for claiming the Sandy Hook school shooting never took place and was a false flag operation
The company Tortoise Media, with Karl-Johan Persson and Christina Stenbeck as two of the owners and James Harding as the largest, plans to acquire The Observer publication now owned by The Guardian
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo says he called Donald Trump because he was embarrassed by the reactions and lack of reactions regarding the threats against him, says he does not understand how Trump continues his campaign, how he manages to raise his fist second after being shot and barely talk about it, though clarifies that the idea of ​​him being a Trump supporter is laughable
British magazine The Spectator is bought by businessman Paul Marshall, owner of right-wing media GB News and online publication Unherd, for GBP 100 million, is profitable and has grown turnover every year since 2013

Politics

Donald Trump concludes election campaign with rally in Madison Square Garden in his home town New York, more than 30 speakers including Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, Mike Johnson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Rudy Guiliani, Dana White, Hulk Hogan, and Dr Phil
Elon Musk donates to the political group America PAC, which supports Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election of the United States, according to sources to Bloomberg who says the amount was sizable, story breaks four months after the entrepreneur wrote that he does not donate money to either candidates
The share of young people in Slovenia who self-identify as rights more than doubled since 2018 to 24 percent and those who consider themselves to be far-right increased from 7 percent to 11 according to study with 600 participants by the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Maribor Faculty of Arts in Slovenia, the right-wing youth are also more likely to show an interest in politics
Afro-Swedish EU parliamentarian Alice Bah Kuhnke (MP) tells The Guardian she has learned to keep her ID close at hand as she frequently is stopped in and around the European Parliament and that other black parliamentarians have the same experience, the article author writes that the over-representation of white men in parliament have far-reaching consequences
Argentine President Javier Milei attends a convention of European patriots organized by the right-wing party Vox with Marine Le Pen among others present and has no plans to meet the king or Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during a visit to Spain, calls socialism satanic and a cancer in a speech on the first day of the visit
Dutch Geert Wilders presents an agreement between four parties that will introduce the country's strictest immigration policy ever by, among other things, getting exemptions from the EU's immigration policy similar to Denmark, takes place after his party the Freedom Party became the largest party in the 2023 election and since then negotiated the formation of a government, still unclear who will be prime minister
The Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang is leading the polls ahead of the Belgian election at June 9 with 28 percent support and the party's Barbara Pas says the desire to have children generally remains the same, but cannot be fulfilled by the people due to practical and financial obstacles which the party seeks to eliminate
France's National Assembly party, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as front runner and party leader, leads Emmanuel Macron's party by a wide margin ahead of European Parliament elections, Bardella has 1.2 million followers on Tiktok and Macron's appointment of 34-year-old Gabriel Attal as prime minister may have been made as response to the popularity of the young nationalist
Protest movements generate attention online but have limited effects on political attitudes, researchers who studied protests in US from 2017 to 2022 say all had zero effect, except BLM protests after death of George Floyd which shifted views on race and benefited Democrats
The documentary Flynn about General Michael Flynn reaches number one on Amazon's bestseller list, follows Flynn's life through the ranks of the US military, the twists and turns following his tenure as national security adviser to Donald Trump and is said to provide an insight into the workings of the deep state

Opinion

Jeff Bezos: Media fails to be seen as credible and is considered by most to be biased, it would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing decline in credibility but victim mentality does not help and I will not allow the Washington Post fade into irrelevance so changes are now needed for us to win this fight
Bronze Age Pervert: The HBD/IQ right reenacts 20th century Jewish neurosis of hysterical fear of black men and ressentemnt against white men, the Hobbesian liberalism of dorks paves way for dystopic society which might suit Asians but which will make Europeans prefer living more free in the third world
Paul Gottfried: Abortion is held to be a key political issue but in fact female support of leftist candidates is fueled by general grievances about the imagined mistreatment of women, this means Republicans are unable to win over women to their cause and should therefore focus on winning as many young men as possible
Niall Ferguson: We are in Cold War 2.0 with China in which the US plays the role of the Soviet Union as despite some differences the similarities are many, geriatric leaders, shorter lifespans, deaths from addiction, large, expensive and inefficient military, low trust in public institutions and an elite that doubles down on its bizarre ideology that no one really believes in
Borepatch: Donald Trump is the modern day Tiberius Gracchus who, despite his family's great wealth, chose to run for public office to benefit the Roman working class and failed because the political establishment buried their traditional political differences and had him killed
Douglas Mackinnon: To those trying to save the people and infrastructure of Ukraine I am truly sad to report that you have failed and those who, from comfortable offices thousands of miles away, encourage Ukraine to fight to the last citizen need to come up with a more convincing rationale, for a number of defense contractors in the US and Europe, Ukraine has become the gift that keeps on giving but when but when does a never-ending supply of taxpayer money begin to resemble fraud, waste and abuse?
David P. Goldman: The Jews founded the first nation on the basis of language and religion, while the pagan kingdoms were multi-ethnic and Christian Europe was built on dual loyalty to both the church and one's own nation, the God of Israel was the first to offer eternal life to mankind while Christianity extended the promise of Israel to all, the remaining paganism in the Christian nations has expressed itself in an idolatrous desire to be a chosen people in the flesh, and Christian anti-Semitism is rather pagan resentment against Israel
Communism was ideology of Antichrist during 20th century, unholy alliance of anti-communism was kathechon which after its triumph morphed into neoliberal attempt to create new world order and a global state, says Peter Thie in interview by Tyler Cowen about political theology
Andrew Beck: Ten years ago, Javascript's creator, Brendan Eich, was forced out as CEO of Mozilla, which he co-founded, as a result of donations he made to lobby groups opposed to the legalization of same-sex marriage, which I felt at the time was a major escalation of the culture war and made me realize that the ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country was all that mattered
Robin Hanson: Global monoculture is a dangerous mistake which is on track to repeat historical patterns of population collapse, centuries of minimal development and increasing illiberalism, no cultural counterforce has realistic chance of reversing the trends but high tech could prevent some of the problems ahead

Europe

Berlin's top police chief urges Jews and homosexuals to hide their identities when in parts of the city dominated by Arabs, as the latter sympathize with terrorists and are often openly hostile to Jews
Italian courts block government plan to send migrants to Albania instead of dealing with them on Italian soil, two groups of migrants have been sent back to Italy shortly after arriving in Albania
Violent clashes in Amsterdam after soccer match between Israeli and Dutch teams, several people taken to hospital and dozens arrested by police, country's prime minister condemns what he calls anti-Semitic attacks while others point out that Israeli hooligans provoked and initiated violence
Severe floods in Spain cause more than 200 deaths, Spaniards' anger directed at the state for inadequate aid efforts and royal couple has mud thrown at them while visiting disaster area
18-year-old Axel Rudakubana charged for the high-profile murders of nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar, six-year-old Bebe King and seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe in Southport, England, which caused protests throughout the country, is suspected of terrorist offenses as he downloaded manual from al-Qaeda and is said to have tried to produce the nerve agent ricin
More than 75 percent of middle school students in Vienna, Austria do not have German as their mother tongue, and in some districts such as Margareten, Hernals and Alsergrund, the percentage is over 90 percent, according to data from Statistics Austria
Activist Tommy Robinson is arrested on Friday and sentenced to 18 months in prison for contempt of court for breaching a previous conviction for defamation, the following day a large demonstration is held in London in support of him
The Social Democrats SPD and Sahra Wagenknecht's BSW in Brandenburg, Germany publish a joint statement in which a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine war is promoted, comes as a result of demands from Wagenknecht for coalition talks between the parties to begin
Both the incumbent party and the pro-EU opposition party in Georgia claim victory in Saturday's parliamentary elections, the official election commission says Georgian Dream with party leader Bidzina Ivanishvili won 54.8 percent of the vote, while election observers claim the result does not reflect the will of the people
UN Secretary-General António Guterres intended to travel to Ukraine after attending the BRICS summit in Kazan attended by Vladimir Putin, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refuses to meet him

North America

Christian nationalists establish themselves in Jackson County, Tennessee and hope thousands of like-minded people will move to the area, podcast hosts C. Jay Engel and Andrew Isker recently announced that they are moving their families to the area from California and Minnesota, respectively
Trump appoints Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as leaders of DOGE, the project to dismantle red tape, reduce regulations and restructure agencies, will work until July 4, 2026 and Musk hopes to reduce government spending by at least 2 trillion dollars, which is 30% of the current federal budget
Elon Musk is working closely with Donald Trump since the election, attending numerous meetings, including with international leaders, anonymous longtime Trump associates concerned about Musk's dominant role in the transition team and his constant presence at Mar-a-Lago
Three men charged after violent protests outside Hindu temple and Sikh gurdwara in Canada, clashes in Brampton and Mississauga related to Sikh nationalists' demands for an independent Khalistan, political leaders condemn incidents and India demands Canada maintain law and order
Donald Trump's vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance visits Joe Rogan's podcast and talks for about three hours on several different topics, says among other things his reaction to the assassination attempt on Trump was to rush home with the kids in the car and load all the guns and get ready at the front door
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, gives his public support to Donald Trump in the US presidential election in 2024, he says that over the years he has seen the government's interest in space wax and wane but was impressed during Trump's first term as the interest took off again and says he is enthused and excited by the great advancements in the private sector
Donald Trump rides a garbage truck wearing an orange and yellow safety vest after Joe Biden accused the former president's supporters of being garbage, Kamala Harris explained that Biden clarified the comment and that she does not believe that people should be criticized for what they vote for
81-year-old President Joe Biden bites at least three babies and kisses the feet of a fourth during Halloween celebrations at the White House, in 2019 he said that politics for him has always been about making connection but that he will be more mindful of personal space in the future
Steve Bannon relased after four months in prison, was sentenced for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify in process against Donald Trump, is said to have taught civics class to fellow inmate every Tuesday
The Washington Post will not endorse any candidate in the US presidential election after having consistently supported the Democratic candidate since 1992, and according to reports, this is due to the decision of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has owned the newspaper since 2013

Latin America

Argentine President Javier Milei fires Foreign Minister Diana Mondino after she voted in the UN to lift the US trade embargo against Cuba, 187 countries voted in favor of the non-binding resolution and the US and Israel voted against
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva suffers small brain hemorrhage after fall at home and cancels trip to BRICS summit in Russia, according to official statement he is be able to carry out work as usual but is advised to avoid long-distance air travel
Argentina the only G20 country that refuses to sign a feminist statement with a list of commitments written by Brazil, President Javier Milei will attend the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro in November, which will be the first time he will meet Brazilian President Lula da Silva
Armed members of the Gran Grif criminal gang kill at least 70 residents of the Haitian village of Pont-Sonde, including ten women and three infants, and 45 homes and 34 cars are said to have been set on fire, motive still unclear
The Dominican Republic announces plan to per week deport up to 10,000 Haitians who made it to the neighboring country after the recent lawlessness, according to the UN, the Dominican Republic sent back 200,000 Haitians last year
Venezuela plans to issue arrest warrants for Argentina's President Javier Milei, his sister Karina Milei and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich over the expropriation of state-owned aircraft at the behest of the US Justice Department, which claimed it actually belonged to Iranian airline affiliated with the terrorist-designated Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Peru's former president between 1990 and 2000, Alberto Fujimori, passes away at the age of 86 from cancer, known for fighting communists and was forced to flee to Japan in 2000 after allegations of election fraud
All gifts to Argentine President Javier Milei are declared and include a chainsaw key ring, a pair of underwear, a mug with the inscription "socialism kills" from a German fan, Toblerone, a toy dog, the Argentina national soccer team jersey during a trip to Israel, red wine and olive oil from Georgia Meloni and cognac of the Hennessy XO brand from Emmanuel Macron
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro brings forward the start of the Christmas celebration for the third time during his administration, which was announced in a speech to the people during his show Con Maduro+ broadcast on Youtube, this year the celebration starts on October 1st, while in 2020 it was on the 15th and in 2021 on the 4th of October
The US recognizes Venezuela's opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of Sunday's presidential election, which incumbent President Nicolás Maduro also claims to have won, the Venezuelan electoral authority states Maduro won with 51 percent of the vote, but no explanatory data has been published

Asia

Ishiba Shigeru elected prime minister by the Japanese parliament in first run-off vote since 1994, becomes Japans 103rd prime minister, Ishibas ruling coalition recently lost parliament majority but the opposition failed to unite around one candidate, paving the way for Ishiba
North Korea's payment for sending troops to the Ukraine war reportedly includes 600,000 tons of rice and technology transfer to its space program, believed to have sent 10,000 soldiers to fight for Russia and is ready to send more
Robot successfully retrieves melted nuclear fuel from damaged Fukushima reactor for the first time, collected fuel piece weighs less than three grams and experts say TEPCO's plan to complete cleanup within 40 years is too optimistic
42-year-old blogger Duong Van Thai is sentenced to 12 years in prison in Vietnam for the crime of making, storing, disseminating, or propagating information, documents, and items aimed at opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, fled to Thailand in 2018 but is said to have disappeared from there in 2023
Kurdish PKK claims responsibility for Wednesday's terrorist attack on state-owned arms manufacturer TAI outside Ankara, Turkey, in which five people died, claiming the company's weapons have killed thousands of Kurds, including children and women
China holds military drills around Taiwan and Xi Jinping visits Dongshan Island where China stopped Taiwanese invasion attempt in 1953, spokesman for China's Taiwan Affairs says they seek peaceful reunification but will never commit to renouncing the use of force
Former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba is expected to become Japan's new prime minister after a vote in parliament next week after winning the Liberal Democratic party leadership vote with 215 votes to female challenger Sanae Takaichi's 194 votes
Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected president of Sri Lanka in what has been seen as a rejection of the old-guard by voters, the country was declared bankrupt in 2022 and Dissanayake has gone to the polls to renegotiate the bailout agreement with IMF
Chinese Coast Guard vessel collide with two Philippine Coast Guard vessels in the area around the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, with both countries at odds over what happened
Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will not run for re-election as party leader ahead of the Liberal Democratic Party's vote in September and a new party leader will take over as prime minister, has seen support below 20 percent in surveys

MIDDLE EAST

Africa

The Botswana Democratic Party is no longer in power in Botswana for the first time since the country's independence in 1966 after challenger Duma Boko from the coalition Umbrella for Democratic Change won Wednesday's presidential election
The Muslim organization Boko Haram kills 40 troops of the Chadian military in the village of Ngouboua at Lake Chad on Sunday, President Mahama Idriss Deby launches Operation Haskanite with the aim of eliminating Boko Haram
Nigerian activist Leo Igwe with the organization Advocacy For Alleged Witches works to support those accused of witchcraft in several African countries, 33-year-old man Jude has received support after being accused of the disappearance of a 15-year-old boy's penis and thus lost his job at a bank
In order to operate in South Africa, Starlink needs to be 30 percent owned by "historically disadvantaged groups", which includes blacks, women, youth and disabled, the service can be accessed from most parts of the world but for the delivery of necessary products to customers, permission from the states is required
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine seriously injured after being shot in the leg by police outside the capital Kampala on Tuesday, street confrontations between him and the police is not unusual and in this case police say he had to no avail been advised against holding a street procession when he left a private event
Germany ends its military presence in Niger in Africa as the last 60 soldiers and equipment leaving, but the countries write in a joint statement that their military cooperation will not end, since 2016, 3,200 German soldiers served on air bases in the region
More cases so far in 2024 of people infected with monkeypox in Africa compared to all of 2023 and the World Health Organization calls for a meeting of its Emergency Committee, a new deadlier and more infectious strain of the virus is said to have been discovered in April in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Burkina Faso's military government, which seized power in a military coup two years ago, has announced that military rule will be extended for another five years after first promising civil rule from July 1 this year, arguing that elections are not a priority as long as jihadists still control territory
Mahamat Idriss Deby is sworn in as president of Chad after winning elections with 61 percent of the vote after three years as a leader under military rule following the assassination of his father who ruled the country since a military coup in the early 90s, present at the installation was, among others, the minister of foreign trade of France and the international cooperation organization for French-speaking countries and areas, Francophonie
Congo-Kinshasa's army says the stopped failed coup attempt in capital Kinshasa following a shootout with three dead and says several foreigners among those arrested

Economy

Berkshire Hathaway reaches record-high liquid assets of 325 billion USD, partly by selling two-thirds of its Apple shares, has been a net seller of stocks for eight consecutive quarters, actions believed to be partly due to Warren Buffett anticipating increased capital gains taxes
Google starts cooperating with the small modular nuclear reactor developer Kairos Power and says that the first reactor will be online in 2030, Microsoft and Amazon have also recently invested in nuclear power and OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman is already an investor in the nuclear power company Oklo
The 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics goes to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their research that concludes that colonialism 500 years ago still keeps countries poor and in economic stagnation, last year the prize went to Marxist feminist Claudia Goldin
Donald Trump first president to make a transaction with Bitcoin as he buys hamburgers and beer for supporters in the pub PubKey in Manhattan in New York, says it was very easy and that his son Barron has four wallets or something for cryptocurrencies
The Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan in Asia reportedly has Bitcoin worth 27 percent of the country's annual GDP after mining the cryptocurrency with the its renewable energy resources
The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 0.5 percentage points, which is the first cut since 2020, Donald Trump says it is either political intervention or confirmation the US economy is doing much worse than indicated, while Chairman Jerome Powell justifies the cut saying it aims to limit the risk of a full-blown downturn
Google wins in the European Court of Justice and avoids paying a fine of EUR 1,5 billion after the European Commission accused the advertising giant of abusing its market dominance between 2006 and 2016 by preventing websites from using advertising brokers other than their own platform, AdSense, the company was recently sentenced in the EU court in a separate case for fines of EUR 2,4 billion
Microsoft signs 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to restart nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island known for partial meltdown in 1978 with start-up scheduled for 2028
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announces that most of the company's employees will need to work full-time in offices starting from 2025 and according to a study by KPMG US, eight out of ten CEOs from large American companies expect remote work to be a closed chapter within the next three years
Japan's Nikkei stock market falls 12.4 percent on Monday, which is the biggest fall in 37 years, and rises 10.2 percent on Tuesday, July 31 Bank of Japan raised interest rates and on Friday US jobs data came in worse than expected

Technology

Embryo selection optimizing for intelligence for sale by US startup Heliospect, 50,000 USD buys analysis of 100 embryos, say left-wing activists who claim to have gone undercover and made video recordingste
Elon Musk reveals new version of Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus and says he thinks it will become biggest product of any kind ever, company also introduces self-driving taxis and busses
Two 2024 Nobel prizes to AI pioneers, Geoffrey Hinton och John Hopfield awarded physics prize for developing fundamental methods, Demis Hassabis och John Jumper awarded chemistry prize for creating AlphaFold which has contributed to solving protein folding problem
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, vetos bill SB 1047, regarding AI-safety regulations, after massive lobbying from Big-Tech in Silicon Valley
OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati as well as two other prominent employees are leaving the company on the same day and the board of the non-profit organization is considering giving CEO Sam Altman equity by starting a for-profit entity, according to an ongoing capital round, the company is valued at USD 150 billion
Encrypted chat app Ghost, which police say is used by criminals, is cracked by Australian police, the apps owner, 32-year-old Jay Je Yoon Jung in Australia, was arrested on Tuesday and police raids are being carried out simultaneously in Ireland, Italy, Sweden and Canada
SpaceX performs the first private spacewalk ever as 41-year-old billionaire financier Jared Isaacman and 30-year-old astronaut Sarah Gillis step out of the capsule at nearly twice the height as the International Space Station
Nasa announces that SpaceX spacecraft will bring home the two astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station since June, instead of Boeing's Starliner that took them there and was then deemed unfit to take them back, would have returned after eight days but now expected to return in February next year
The U.S. AI ​​Safety Institute under the US Department of Commerce, which was established after the Biden administration's executive order on AI in October 2023, signs cooperation agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic, which means that they will get access to new models before they are publicly launched
After a five-year absence, Curtis Yarvin is back at the helm of Urbit, which he founded, after its executive director since 2021, Josh Lehman, has been fired and the non-profit organization that intends to rebuild the Internet from scratch is close to running out of money

Science

This year's Ig Nobel Prize, which is given to unusual scientific achievements, is awarded to studies that concluded that mammals can breathe through the anus, that drunk worms are slower than sober ones, that hair curls on people in the northern hemisphere generally curl in the same direction as hair curls on people from the southern hemisphere and scaring a cow every ten seconds affects its milk but having a cat on its back does not
Aging increases at the ages of 44 and 60 according to a Stanford study published in Nature Aging that examined 108 people between the ages of 25 and 75 of various races for up to seven years by taking blood samples 2-4 times a year
With moderate confidence there is link between fluoride in drinking water and children's IQ according to US government report, the addition of low levels of fluoride to drinking water has, according to the article, long been considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century as the chemical element is good for dental health
Reservoirs of liquid water 11 to 20 kilometers beneath the surface of Mars may have been found by scientists, who have analyzed four years of data collected by NASA's Mars InSight lander, if extracted to the surface the amount of liquid water found could cover the planet in a 1-2km deep ocean
The European Space Agency is creating Lego pieces of space dust from a meteorite in northwest Africa using 3D printers, the phenomenon of so-called in situ resource utilization (ISRU) is the main focus of the organization's office in Cologne, Germany and teamleader Aidan Cowley says we have to figure out how to build structures on the moon since we can't bring any materials there
Why males do not breastfeed despite biological possibility may be an evolutionary strategy to curb the spread of harmful microbes in mammals, according to a study using mathematical models by the University of York published in Nature Communications
Left-wingers have smaller and lower faces, with lips and noses oriented further down towards the chin compared to those with right-leaning views, according to research with 591 participants at Stanford University that shows that political beliefs and facial characteristics correlate
Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes map of moon in the scale of 1:2,500,000 which took 100 scientists more than a decade to compile
Researcher Nathan Cofnas is fired from Emmanuel College, part of the University of Cambridge, for violating its diversity and inclusion policies ​​when he argued that the number of black professors at Harvard would approach zero in a meritocracy and that they would not hold any high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment
Nobel laureate in physics 2013, Peter Higgs who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson in particle physics in 1964 which was later confirmed at CERN in 2012, dies at the age of 94, was born in Newcastle in 1929 and worked at the University of Edinburgh for almost all of his career