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09/22/2022 - 8:30am

US commits $2bn to ‘high risk, high reward’ biotech projects Fresh funding will be provided to gene editing and mRNA technology

Mary Harrington

Wednesday, September 21

PayPal cancels FSU and The Daily Sceptic accounts The wave of financial cancellations continues apace

No, DeSantis’s migrant stunt was not ‘kidnapping’ Pundits are trying to weaponise the law to take down the Florida Governor

Labour is right to embrace the national anthem The party has a patriotism problem — and Keir Starmer knows it

Putin on nuclear weapons: ‘this is not a bluff’ The Russian leader made a stark warning in this morning's address

Maximilian Hess

San Francisco loses another 39,000 taxpayers Millenials and Gen Xers are leaving California in droves

Tuesday, September 20

Did Serial get a guilty man off the hook? Adnan Syed was rightly convicted — no matter what a podcast implied

Park MacDougald

Excess deaths keep rising across EU The latest figures from July show 15% more deaths than normal

The Atlantic succumbs to magical thinking on sport The magazine is the latest to deny that men are stronger than women

Tang ping: how China’s youth are refusing to work The 'lying flat' movement is a sign of increasing dissatisfaction with President Xi

Austin Williams

Donald Trump embraces QAnon The former President has been making explicit overtures to the conspiracy

Monday, September 19

The EU reaches a budget standoff with Viktor Orbán The bloc is coming after the Hungarian regime

William Nattrass

Honi soit qui mal y pense Shame on those who pour scorn on the mourners

Sub-continental sectarianism arrives on Leicester’s streets Nearly 30 arrests have been made over the past few weeks

Serbia’s LGBT Pride march ends badly Protesters are failing to win over the hearts and minds of Serbians

Friday, September 16

China and Russia remain friends — for now Cracks in the relationship are starting to surface

Katherine Bayford

The Charles III paradox: anti-establishment King? Freddie Sayers speaks to King Charles III's co-author Ian Skelly

Is Kazakhstan turning its back on its former leader? The country's capital will no longer be named after Nursultan Nazarbayev

Will Japanese people ‘cease to exist’? Declining fertility is turning the country into one big retirement home

Republicans may not like what comes after monarchy There are more alternatives than they think

Thursday, September 15

Hollywood turns the Queen’s death into a season finale It didn't take long before celebrities started tweeting for clout

Armenia-Azerbaijan latest: Moscow is losing control Distracted by Ukraine, Putin is struggling to keep the peace

Goldman Sachs is wrong: this energy crisis isn’t going away The bank believes that European gas prices will fall sharply this winter

Philip Pilkington

Your DNA can now be used against you A woman's data was used to arrest her in connection with an unrelated crime

Timandra Harkness

Swedish election: will immigration finally be addressed? The success of the Sweden Democrats marks a sea change

Wednesday, September 14

England’s middle classes say goodbye to the Queen They thought she would last forever

Clint Ehrlich: What I got wrong about Ukraine The Russia realist speaks about his recent change of heart

God save our republican protesters Being for King and country means being for freedom of speech

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen: does the West want Ukraine to win? A stalemate might suit some countries

In truth, we French can’t get enough of your Royals A handful of Left-wing mayors make an unconvincing exception

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Tuesday, September 13

Michael Anton: Purge the FBI, break up the CIA The former Trump official outlined some bold ideas for America’s security state

Park MacDougald

Why is Russia strengthening ties with North Korea? Short on military supplies, Vladimir Putin is turning eastward

Bethany Elliott