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As their midterm picture darkens, and gas and diesel prices soar, some Republicans who backed the war for months are now changing their tune.
Tim BalkUnited States Politics and GovernmentUS and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026)
Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claimsElection experts have warned Donald Trump’s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November’s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting.With less than six weeks remaining until polls close, and control of US Congress in the balance, the post-election “counting window” is seen as as a particularly vulnerable moment by former US federal government officials. Continue reading...
George ChidiDonald TrumpUS politics
Longtime friend tells of president’s obsession with social justice and fears for country’s future under another Bolsonaro presidencyOn 1 January 2023, a few hours after being sworn in for his third stint as Brazil’s president, a ravenous Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sneaked away from a celebratory cocktail party packed with politicians and diplomats to grab a snack with one of his oldest friends.“This is your penultimate term,” that friend, the Dominican theologian and writer Frei Betto, recalls telling Lula as the pair chewed the fat in a back room of the foreign ministry in Brasília. Continue reading...
Tom Phillips Rio de JaneiroLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaJair Bolsonaro
Chinese president’s proposals for lessening tensions come amid period of intense competition between the two countries over AI and tradeXi Jinping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid the “Thucydides trap” that could put the US and China on a military collision course amid rising tensions over artificial intelligence, trade and Taiwan.At the start of his summit meeting with Donald Trump in the White House, the Chinese president laid out terms for a mutual understanding that he said could steer the two competing superpowers away from future military conflict and on to a road of mutual gain. Continue reading...
Robert Tait in WashingtonUS newsXi Jinping
As he tries to break Canada’s dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he knows Canadians will feel pain from the trade war.
Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Sydney EmberCarney, Mark JCanada
The proposals would also see benefits cut for people who are able to work but have failed to hold down a job.
As diet trends proliferate on social media, it can be hard to work out which are backed by science and which should be ignored. From paleo to keto, raw food to intermittent fasting, each attracts a tribe of ardent followers. Now Daniel Lieberman, professor of biological sciences at Harvard University, has written a book to try to cut through the noise. In Fed Up, he uses his background as an evolutionary anthropologist to scrutinise the evidence, turning himself into a guinea pig in the process and trying various diets. In this podcast, he tells Ian Sample which one has remained part of his routine Continue reading...
Presented by Ian Sample , produced by Joshan Chana and Jacob Liebenberg , the executive producer was Ellie BuryDiets and dietingNutrition
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