President Zelensky suggests Trump's election can strongly affect war.
The result of the upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election can "very strongly" influence the course of Russia's war against Ukraine, President Zelensky said during a press conference on Dec. 19.
As GOP voters seem increasingly “meh” on culture war rhetoric, it’s bad news for the politician who has most publicly positioned himself as an anti-woke warrior.
Scientists are narrowing in on the fastest-growing COVID-19 variant, learning more about the strain that has coincided with a rise in cases as Americans head into the holidays. #AureFreePress#News#covid19#covid
McConnell: Border talks not done, quick vote would ‘not succeed’
There is a “lot of very technical work on drafting which takes time to get right,” McConnell wrote in a note to Republican senators. #AureFreePress#News#GOP#Politics#USA#Biden
When Liz Cheney and Rachel Maddow join forces to nationally broadcast an urgent plea about a "five alarm fire" in America's democracy... well I for one listen.
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A Texas judge has granted a pregnant woman permission to get an abortion, an unprecedented challenge to the state's ban triggered by the fall of Roe v. Wade last year.
Italy Tells China It Will Exit Belt and Road Investment Pact
The pact “has not produced the desired effects” and is no longer “a priority,” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said at a Rome event Wednesday hosted by newswire Adnkronos. Countries not part of the pact “have had better results,” he added.
Brazil has proposed a new $250 billion mechanism for conserving the world’s tropical rainforests.
The “Tropical Forests Forever” fund, sourced from governments and the private sector, would disburse money to tropical countries that achieve set thresholds for limiting deforestation.
New publication from our project on "Implicit and Explicit #Racism in #News and SocialMedia":
We explore the portrayal of #EthnicGroups in German legacy and #AlternativeMedia in 2022 - focusing on those group labels that were most frequently metnioned in the press last year.
The analysis is based on #WordEmbedding models that contrast the group labels' implicit and explicit associations with fear and admiration.
Delio de Jesús Suárez Gómez, a member of the Indigenous Tucano community in Colombia, is combining ancestral knowledge with science to help pollinating bees survive the harsh conditions of life in the rainforest.
In return, the bees provide honey for families, which is sold, and boosts the communities’ food and fruit supply through pollination.