Category: Americas
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Washington is reportedly telling 35 countries they cannot join both its Pax Silica framework and Beijing’s rival AI organisation. The 5G fight was the rehearsal; this one runs deeper.
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A draft State Department letter tells the 35 signatories of a US AI statement that they cannot hold Pax Silica membership alongside China’s rival framework. One country has already joined both — and the letter never names China.
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A study of 111,646 women found 30% fewer breast cancer diagnoses among GLP-1 users. The absolute difference was 0.69 percentage points, the design cannot show causation, and a trial review found no overall cancer effect.
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Webb has found an object from 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like a star the size of the solar system but radiates 100 billion times more energy than one can. It may explain the “little red dots.”
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Eight infant macaques given a three-part regimen within 72 hours of infection showed no detectable HIV a year after treatment stopped. A striking result — and a long way from a treatment for babies.
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From Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover watched Earth — a single point of light 195 million miles away — vanish behind the Martian moon Phobos. A first from the surface of Mars.
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The USS George Washington is heading to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed more than 250 days with no port call in 200. What that does to a crew, and what the swap signals.
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The toll from Colombia’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake has reached 281 dead and nearly 4,000 injured, with more than 12,000 homes destroyed. Rescue has given way to recovery, and the missing-persons figures need careful reading.
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A former senior executive of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged over payments to informants inside extremist groups — the first individual charged in a case the organisation says is politically motivated. Nothing has yet been tested in court.
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Trump announced on 12 August that Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in history, will leave at the end of the month. No successor has been named, with under three months to the midterms.