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Geopolitics

What impact do you think delaying military action against Iran before elections could have on U.S. foreign policy?

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US will not launch an attack on Iran before November's US midterm congressional elections, asserting that the two countries are having "productive" talks about ending the six-month-old war. "We are having productive discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the midterm elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd."

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Politics

What does Navi Pillay's Nobel Prize win mean for the future of human rights and justice around the world?

GENEVA, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The UN human rights chief said on Friday that NaviPillay's Nobel Prize was a collective win for human rights and for all those seeking justice and accountability, including through the International Criminal Court. Volker Turk,who worked closely with Navi Pillay during her tenure as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014,described her as "the embodiment of international law"

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Politics

How should the government respond to threats like hijackings while managing political differences during elections?

An attempted hijacking of a Flydubai plane full of Israeli citizens has become a flashpoint in the nation’s politics as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims credit for alerting the opposition to the threat, while rivals claim he is exploiting the situation for campaign purposes. A pilot who Israeli officials have identified as an Omani national […]

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Economy

How should the government balance foreign worker programs with protecting jobs for citizens?

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that he is suspending Microsoft, Adobe and several other IT firms' ability to hire foreign-born workers for permanent residency in the U.S. Why it matters: The move will affect hundreds of companies owned by the tech giant, escalating the Trump administration's cracking down on immigrant labor. What they're saying: "We want people to invest in the United States of America, particularly the American technology sector," Vance said during a Thursday news conference. "We're the biggest boosters of your industry. We want you to continue to grow and to employ a lot of people, but we want you to employ American workers.""And so our message to Microsoft is, you're great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers. You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants." Zoom in: The program, the permanent labor certification program, administered through the Department of Labor, allows a company to hire a foreign worker to live permanently in America. Driving the news: Vance specifically singled out Microsoft, slamming them for laying off 6,000 workers last year. Vance said Thursday that "[a]t the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards. In other words, if you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants. Now that is a scandalous system that we've allowed in this country for far too long." Microsoft owns hundreds of companies, including LinkedIn, Skype and gaming studio Activision Blizzard.He also called out and suspended Adobe and IT outsourcing firms Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini from the program. Worth noting: Trump will award Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at the White House today. This is a breaking news story and will be updated

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Geopolitics

What are the possible effects of Yemen's government military actions on peace and safety for the people living there?

By Mohammed Ghobari, Timour Azhari and Eman Abouhassira ADEN, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Yemen’s Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government said on Sunday it was launching a major military campaign to recapture all areas of the country controlled by the . The government’s armed forces would press the offensive “until the country is liberated from the grip of the terrorist militia,” Yemeni President Rashad al-Alimi said in a televised address. A military spokesman later called on the Houthis to lay down their weapons

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Politics

What should we consider about leadership accountability in times of crisis?

Three years after the deadly Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for political survival ahead of legislative elections later this month. Reports that Arab leaders warned him of the assault in advance have undercut his claims that Israel's security chiefs are to blame, but his political base appears to be holding

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What should we consider about the use of lethal injection for executions after recent incidents in Tennessee?

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survived two rounds of lethal injection Wednesday in an apparent botched execution and was rushed to a hospital as her attorneys filed emergency litigation to stop the state from trying again. “This execution is causing Ms. Pike unnecessary agony and occurring in violation of her right to be executed

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Politics

How might the influence of political figures on the Supreme Court affect its decisions and our laws?

The Supreme Court's next chapter begins Monday, with the justices set to decide key questions involving President Trump's immigration agenda, climate-change litigation and gun control in their new term. The big picture: But one of the most closely watched fights may be on Truth Social, rather than the docket, as an increasingly agitated Trump chastises the high court he helped shape. The executive and judicial branches are set for another round in the white-columned ring with a president who moves at breakneck speed. State of play: The court recently agreed to hear two major immigration cases, one over mandatory detention for certain immigrants and another over deporting immigrants to third countries where they lack ties. On the latter, the high court allowed the administration to restart its fast-tracked third-country deportations late last month while it considers the underlying legal questions in December.The court agreed Thursday to take up the detention case, setting the stage to test the Trump administration's legal interpretation that noncitizens who entered the country illegally, but have been living in the U.S., are to be held without bond. While federal appeals courts have been divided on the issue, a vast majority — nine of the 11 — have rejected the Trump administration's interpretation. Flashback: While the Supreme Court shot down Trump's attempt to undermine birthright citizenship last term, it handed him a number of immigration wins and green-lit policies on its shadow docket. Those victories for Trump allowed the administration to end temporary protected status, enforce stricter asylum rules and use a revamped tool to check voters' citizenship. Zoom out: Before those cases come to the bench, the court will hear arguments Monday in a key climate case that could determine the fate of state-court lawsuits nationwide seeking climate damages from oil giants, Axios' Ben Geman reports. The court also added two other cases to its lineup Thursday, on top of t

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Technology

What should be the rules for using powerful AI models like Google's Gemini 4?

Google is unveiling its long-awaited next-generation AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, to a small group of cybersecurity partners, the company said Wednesday. Why it matters: Gemini 4 arrives after a long gap at the top of Google's model lineup, in which the company kept rolling out smaller, cheaper Flash models while rivals OpenAI and Anthropic sprinted forward. State of play: Google says Gemini 4 Argon is built to handle complex, long-running tasks in software engineering, finance, legal work and cybersecurity. Google said the new model is state of the art on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks, outperforming competing OpenAI frontier model GPT-6 Astra on several.The company is rolling the model out only to a group of trusted cybersecurity defenders and is participating in the U.S. government's voluntary pre-release process.Google says it will expand access after additional testing, with paying subscribers first in line. What they're saying: "Argon is a well-rounded model that has frontier capabilities across several domains," Tulsee Doshi, head of Gemini products at Google DeepMind, told Axios. "We've seen strong performance up close as Googlers have put the model through its paces in recent weeks, with many relying on it for their hardest coding and research problems." Flashback: Gemini 4 comes out nearly a year after the previous flagship model generation, Gemini 3. In May, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company's next major model release would come in June. That model, widely expected to be Gemini 3.5 Pro, never came out. In July, Axios reported that poor morale among Google DeepMind employees was part of the reason for the delay. Zoom in: Google's additional time investment may not be viewed as negatively in the context of the AI safety debate that has embroiled companies and users. OpenAI has had issues with agents going rogue, and recently said it is scrapping GPT-6.1 Astra due to security issues.Top AI developers OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating

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