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Key Takeaways After Indiana Lawmakers Defy Trump’s Redistricting Push

12 décembre 2025 à 01:08
President Trump’s failure to ram through a Republican-friendly House map was a new sign that his iron grip on the party has slipped, and was likely to reverberate nationally.

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Republican members of the Indiana Senate voted on Thursday to reject an effort led by President Trump to pass a congressional map that would have given the party two extra House seats.

Changes to polar bear DNA could help them adapt to global heating, study finds

12 décembre 2025 à 02:00

Scientists say bears in southern Greenland differ genetically to those in the north, suggesting they could adjust

Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers, in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant link has been found between rising temperatures and changing DNA in a wild mammal species.

Climate breakdown is threatening the survival of polar bears. Two-thirds of them are expected to have disappeared by 2050 as their icy habitat melts and the weather becomes hotter.

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© Photograph: Alamy

© Photograph: Alamy

‘Nuclear verdicts’ make Los Angeles most hellacious U.S. city for lawsuits

12 décembre 2025 à 01:57
Hell on earth is a Los Angeles courtroom. A report released this week by the American Tort Reform Foundation found that LA is the worst region in the country for “judicial hellholes,” and residents are picking up the tab for excessive litigation based on novel legal theories that result in “nuclear verdicts” with staggering penalties....

Thailand set for early elections amid political deadlock and Cambodia skirmishes

Par :Reuters
12 décembre 2025 à 01:51

Move follows a disagreement with the largest grouping in parliament, with elections to be held within 45-60 days

Thailand’s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, announced on Thursday that he is “returning power to the people”, moving to dissolve parliament and clear the way for elections earlier than previously anticipated.

Government spokesperson Siripong Angkasakulkiat said the move followed a disagreement with the largest grouping in parliament, the opposition People’s party. “This happened because we can’t go forward in parliament,” he told Reuters.

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© Photograph: Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters

© Photograph: Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters

A 550-pound bear has been living under my house — and it doesn’t want to leave

12 décembre 2025 à 01:47
It’s been a beary tough stretch for this California homeowner. Sleep deprivation, strange smells, severe damage, and things that go bump in the night. It’s all part of what it’s like to have a 550-pound bear living underneath your house. “It’s a lot more stressful than I thought,” Ken Johnson told The Post Thursday, 11 days...

Papua New Guinea grapples with HIV epidemic as it battles stigma and US aid cuts

Papua New Guinea has one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in the Asia-Pacific region, with many unaware they have the virus

After battling illness for years, Nancy Karipa tested positive for HIV in 1999. She had just given birth to her first child. “It was a crossroads moment for me, with the fear of denial, but I chose action,” Karipa, who is now in her 50s, said at an Aids awareness event in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby in December. She and the baby received treatment, and her child remains healthy.

Karipa, from East Sepik in northern PNG, is unusual in sharing her story. The stigma around the disease is high in the Pacific nation, but speaking out has never been more important. This year PNG declared HIV a “national crisis”.

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© Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images

Trump signs executive order blocking states from regulating AI

12 décembre 2025 à 01:47

Order, which lacks the force of law, also creates taskforce whose ‘sole responsibility’ will be challenging states’ AI laws

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that seeks to halt any laws limiting artificial intelligence and block states from regulating the rapidly emerging technology. The order also creates a federal taskforce that will have the “sole responsibility” of challenging states’ AI laws.

At a signing ceremony, the president touted AI companies’ enthusiasm for wanting to “invest” in the United States and said that “if they had to get 50 different approvals from 50 different states, you could forget it”.

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© Photograph: Al Drago/Reuters

© Photograph: Al Drago/Reuters

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