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It was a stirring speech that brought Democrats to tears. “When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level,” Michelle Obama told them in Philadelphia in 2016. “No, our motto is: ‘When they go low, we go high.’” Fast forward to Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, speaking in Chicago this week. …

The modern executive overreach of wannabe moguls has spanned media companies both traditional, like Warner Bros., and nascent, like Amazon. But no matter which fleece-vested Scrooge has decided that they know how to do someone else’s job, it comes with the same exhausting, creatively bankrupt problems. For example, in Brad Stone’s book Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos And The Invention Of …

Putin Tells U.S. He’ll Halt War in Exchange for Eastern Ukraine – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal Trump invites Putin to Alaska, which Russian nationalists want back  The Independent US and Russia Plan Truce to Cement Putin’s Gains in Ukraine  Bloomberg.com Trump gauges Europe’s reaction to Putin’s ceasefire offer  Politico Trump Says He Will Meet With Putin in Alaska Next Week  The New York Times …

Trump to play host to Putin on home soilpublished at 23:47 British Summer Time 23:47 BST Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent Now we have a time and a place for the much-anticipated summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. While locations like Rome and Hungary had been rumoured, the actual destination – Alaska one week from today – isn’t quite as …

China has declared war on the chikungunya virus. How much of a threat is it? : Goats and Soda  NPR What to know about chikungunya virus amid new outbreak in China  ABC News With Drones and ‘Elephant Mosquitoes,’ China Wages All-Out War on a Virus  The New York Times CDC warns of mosquito-borne chikungunya outbreak in southeast China  NBC News Alarm in China that …

OpenAI astounded the tech industry for the second time this week by launching its newest flagship model, GPT-5, just days after releasing two new freely available models under an open source license. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went so far as to call GPT-5 “the best model in the world.” That may be pride or hyperbole, as TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff reports …

LONDON — Most Ukrainians now favor ending the war with Russia through negotiations, as support for fighting until victory has dropped sharply since the early days of the conflict. Although their hopes for joining NATO and the European Union have faded and approval of U.S. leadership has plummeted, Ukrainians still see the EU, U.K. and U.S. as key to ending …

The new Paramount Pictures is already making a flex. Coming out in a competitive situation, the now Skydance-owned studio has picked up High Side, the hot feature package from director James Mangold and star Timothée Chalamet. The project reunites the duo after their collaboration on the Academy Award-nominated Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. Mangold is attached to direct High Side, a …

The trade war isn’t over. It’s just beginning  Axios Trump remade the global trading system. He’s just getting started  CNN This Isn’t How You Deal With Free Riders  Bloomberg.com FirstFT: A new era for global trade begins  Financial Times Opinion | Trump’s Trade Representative: Why We Remade the Global Order  The New York Times Source link

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff shake hands during their meeting in Moscow, Wednesday. Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption toggle caption Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in the coming days, according to a top Kremlin aide. The meeting would mark the first …