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More Americans live in riskiest wildfire zones

Thousands have fled as wildfires spread across the US Los Angeles region -- what ignited the Palisades and Eaton fires, the two main blazes, is still under investigation but weather conditions have helped fuel their spread. Experts call the areas "the wildland-urban interface" (WUI).

A land-grab agenda for modern times

As the world enters 2025, former U.S. President Donald Trump, now preparing for his second term, has reignited the flames of territorial ambition with rhetoric that harks back to America’s imperial past.

Israeli researcher’s AI identifies ‘Social Norm Violations’

scientist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has designed an AI system capable of identifying “social norm violations” in-text samples. With US military funding, Professor Yair Neuman and engineer Yochai Cohen built the system using GPT-3, zero-shot text classification and automatic rule discovery.

Will Harris prove a liability for Biden?

According to the American constitution, the vice-president occupies the second highest position in the executive branch of the federal government. In fact, the occupant of this office, the vice-president, is proverbially said to be a ‘heartbeat away from the presiden-cy.’ Thus, if the sitting president becomes physically incapacitated, is impeached, or dies, the vice-president takes over.