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🇵🇸 More than a million people in Rafah—most of them from other parts of the Gaza Strip—are bracing for the last decisive battle in the war between Israel and Hamas. Many families, displaced several times over, are wondering whether to flee or wait and see whether a potential cease-

💸Donald Trump’s new shared fund-raising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs a portion of donations to the political account he has used to pay his legal bills before any money goes to the party itself. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

The gap between the world’s most valuable companies widened Thursday, as Apple shares took a tumble and Microsoft leapt to a record-high share price. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Luis Rubiales, the disgraced former Spanish soccer head who resigned after kissing a player against her will at the Women’s World Cup, is now a focus of Spanish investigators looking into accusations of corruption and money laundering. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Shares in Reddit leapt more than 38% on its market debut, in a vote of confidence for initial public offerings after two years of subdued activity. The stock opened at $47 as trading began on Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RDDT, far above its IPO…

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is holding up well despite spending nearly a year in a Moscow prison, the US embassy said after ambassador Lynne Tracy visited him #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

European Union leaders are considering a new proposal to use about $3 billion a year in windfall profits generated by frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine's war effort. Read more: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

➕🌽🌽🌽 A technical glitch let customers of an Ethiopian bank take out or transfer more money they had in their accounts. Local media reported that more than $40 million had been withdrawn. 👉 #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Apple shares were down nearly 1% in premarket trading Thursday, following overnight reports that the Justice Department is preparing to file a federal antitrust suit. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

A new study projects that global fertility rates, which have been declining in all countries since 1950, will continue to plummet through the end of the century, resulting in a profound demographic shift. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said he believes China’s military will be prepared to invade Taiwan by 2027, meeting a goal U.S. military officials believe Chinese President Xi Jinping set to reunite Taiwan with China’s mainland with force if necessary. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press…

Described by the experts involved as an "archaeological nirvana," the site is the only one in Britain that lives up to the "Pompeii premise." #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s generative AI models, onstage at the company’s first-ever developer conference in November, he described them as a way to “accomplish all sorts of tasks” — from programming to learning about esoteric scientific subjects to getting workout…

🔌🇺🇲 The Biden administration finalized the toughest-ever limits on planet-warming emissions from passenger cars and light trucks Wednesday, in a controversial bid to accelerate the nation’s halting transition to electric vehicles. Read more: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he was leaning toward a 15-week national ban on abortion but supports exceptions for rape, incest and saving the life of the mother because "you have to win elections" #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🇺🇦 Ukraine manufactured practically no weapons before Russia invaded in February 2022, but the local arms industry is now booming. Factories spit out shells, mortar rounds, military vehicles, missiles and other items crucial to the war effort. Production tripled in 2023 and is expected to increase sixfold this year, Prime Minister…

The paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society describes how researchers used this innovative new platform to design molecules that take aim at helicases involved in COVID and certain cancers. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has announced he will resign next month. Full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

China blasts critics of Hong Kong's new national security law, after Western powers and the United Nations said it would further curtail freedoms in the city. Hong Kong passed a security law commonly referred to as Article 23 to punish five crimes after a fast-tracked legislative process.