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Yorkshire Water admits sewage scheme falls short
The firm says the scheme to reduce storm overflow discharges has not performed as expected.
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‘We’re short of resources’: France’s student protesters, in their own words
French students and teachers protesting school conditions spoke with Al Jazeera about their demands.
NPRWorld
A history of presidents naming things after themselves (It's short. They rarely do)
While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets.
The GuardianPolitics
Why are the Democratic Socialists of America are so successful? | Akin Olla
There’s an unsung reason for the organization’s success even as other leftwing groups face a bumpy road A lot has been written recently in an effort to understand the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and how we’ve risen to such prominence in a short time. It is clear that we reflect a growing disillusionment…
NPRScience
Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.
ESPNSports
Padres star closer Miller on paternity list ahead of pivotal Game 3
The Padres will be without star closer Mason Miller for Tuesday night's elimination game after he was placed on the paternity list shortly before the start of Game 3.
The GuardianCulture
The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca
The novelist has expanded her devastating 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeper The rollcall of notable novels that began life as short stories is surprisingly long and various. Two years before Clarissa Dalloway famously shopped for flowers in…
TechCrunchTechnology
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing LLM roleplay falls short for market research and brand strategy.
The GuardianCulture
V/H/S/Mixtape review – murderous puppets pull the strings in mixed bag of gory music-themed mini-movies
Metal band Gwar host this instalment of the horror series, which serves up darkly humorous movie morsels that would struggle to frighten a toddler The latest in the long-running horror-feature series is, as per usual, a decidedly diverse ragbag of shorts, strung together with the thinnest of connective tissue. The…
The New York TimesWorld
The Separatist Parti Québécois Wins Quebec Election, Reviving Sovereignty Push
The separatist party’s victory fell short of clinching a majority that would have all but guaranteed a potential showdown with Ottawa over Canada’s future.
ESPNSports
Pat Surtain II avoids long-term injury, but how will Broncos adjust with the All-Pro out?
While Surtain was able to avoid a long-term, season-ending injury, the loss of him and Riley Moss puts the Broncos in a short-term bind.
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Scientists find a surprising clue to why the universe’s expansion doesn’t add up
Tiny magnetic fields created shortly after the Big Bang may help explain the long-running disagreement over how fast the universe is expanding. Detailed simulations show that these primordial fields could have changed the formation of hydrogen in the early universe, affecting the cosmic microwave background and the…
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more If a third runway is built at Heathrow, what will be the impact on the wealth of the nation? It will cost us somewhere between £23.4bn and £62.5bn. These are not my figures…
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