It's been four years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the
Taliban's return to power. Life for certain groups has deteriorated
significantly. But the Trump administration says Afghanistan’s conditions have
improved in recent years to the point where sending Afghan nationals BACK
does not pose a threat to their safety.
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Newshour - UN calls on Israel to reverse new settlement plans
There's been fierce international criticism of Israeli plans to build more than three-thousand homes in a controversial settlement in the occupied West Bank. The country's far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said the move - which will split the territory - will "bury the idea of a Palestinian state". Britain's foreign secretary, David Lammy, described the plan as a "flagrant breach of international law" that "must be stopped".
Also in the programme: Humanitarian workers in Sudan say they lack the resources to deal with a deadly cholera outbreak in camps for people displaced by the civil war; what sort of welcome are Alaskans preparing for President Putin; and why are some female Australian birds developing male sex organs.
(Photo: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a press conference regarding settlements expansion for the long-frozen E1 settlement, that would split East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)
The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Could Trump End War in Ukraine During Tomorrow’s Meeting With Putin?
The stakes couldn’t be higher. Will this summit move the world toward peace or harden the deadlock?
Hanson lays out why the Biden administration has avoided such meetings, why the “Putin puppet” narrative has gone silent, and what Trump’s high-stakes negotiating strategy could mean for the war’s endgame on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“We’re gonna have this summit. And Trump is going to say to Putin, ‘You can have no NATO Ukraine. You can have the Crimea. You can have the Donbas. I think I can get Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people to agree. But we’ve gotta fight over how far west you are and whether you have to go back or will stay in place.’
And then he’s going to have to tell Zelenskyy, ‘We’re supplying you. That’s the only leverage we have against Putin, along with a secondary boycott. But you have to decide whether you’re going to cede the Donbas, Crimea, and some of the territory. Because if you don’t, there’s not going to be a peace. And if there’s not going to be a peace, we can’t assure you a blank check forever.’”
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(0:00) Upcoming Trump-Putin Summit
(0:57) Historical Context
(2:00) Trump's Leverage Against Putin
(3:29) Potential Risks
(3:49) Current State of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
(4:56) Possible Peace Agreement
(7:05) Final Thoughts
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WSJ Minute Briefing - Hot Inflation Report Leaves U.S. Stocks Mixed
Plus: Bullish adds to its opening-day success. Kate Spade owner Tapestry, Deere and Coherent take hits to their shares. Katherine Sullivan hosts.
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WSJ What’s News - How Blue States Plan to Get More Taxes From Wealthy Residents
P.M. Edition for Aug. 14. Faced with budget shortfalls and preexisting deficits, state and local legislators are looking for ways to get more in taxes from their richest residents. WSJ economics reporter Juliet Chung describes how they’re approaching it. Plus, U.S. mortgage rates fall to their lowest level this year, offering hope to prospective buyers. And more of Americans’ retirement funds are tied to stocks than ever. Anne Tergesen, who covers retirement for the Journal, joins the podcast to discuss the risks involved. Alex Ossola hosts.
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WSJ Tech News Briefing - TNB Tech Minute: Apple Watch Gets Blood Oxygen Feature Back
Plus: “Buy now, pay later” company Klarna posts revenue growth. And Tencent’s second quarter revenue growth shows investments in artificial intelligence have paid off, according to analysts. Julie Chang hosts.
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1A - What Trump’s DC Takeover Means For The Capital And Beyond
President Donald Trump has taken over Washington D.C.’s police force and deployed the National Guard in the capital.
The president took over the city’s police department for 30 days, and says he wants Congress to grant him “long-term” control of the force.
All this in the name of public safety, despite the fact that D.C.'s violent crime rate is at a 30-year low.
He says he might do the same in places like Los Angeles, Chicago and Baltimore.
We get into what it all means for our nation’s capital and beyond.
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The president took over the city’s police department for 30 days, and says he wants Congress to grant him “long-term” control of the force.
All this in the name of public safety, despite the fact that D.C.'s violent crime rate is at a 30-year low.
He says he might do the same in places like Los Angeles, Chicago and Baltimore.
We get into what it all means for our nation’s capital and beyond.
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Science In Action - Vaccine study retraction request rejected
US Health Secretary RFK Jr’s call to retract a study on childhood vaccines is resisted by the journal. Also antibiotics get designed by AI, and a new way for stars to die.
A study focussing on Danish childhood vaccination data has attracted the US Secretary for Health’s anger, as RFK jr calls for the journal in which it was published, the Annals of Internal Medicine, to retract it. The Editor, Christine Laine, talk to Science in Action about the strengths and challenges of observational studies.
The cuts to prestigious US federal science funded research continue, as last week it was announced that $500 million funding for future mRNA vaccines would be withdrawn. Barney Graham, one of the pioneers in the field and prominent during the Covid vaccines, argues that the research will still happen, though maybe not in the US, as mRNA has become a fundamental area of global research.
Meanwhile, strides are being made in the field of synthetic biology as Jim Collins and colleagues at MIT and Harvard have used AI to design potentially viable antibiotics for two important drug-resistant superbugs. Previously, AI has been used to comb through libraries of known antibiotics. This study has gone a step further, and used generative AI to design new ones, that can then be synthesised using real chemicals. Though a long way from being prescribable drugs, the team think this could herald a new golden age of antibiotic development – something which has been lacking in recent decades.
Finally, it seems astronomers may have discovered a new way for a star to die, sort of. Supernova 2023zkd was seen to explode back in 2023, found by a team looking for odd events. It didn’t seem quite like normal supernovae, in that it took a bit longer to die down. Then the team looked back, and noticed that it had also been getting slowly brighter for almost a year. At 730 million light years away, in a galaxy far, far away, it also seemed to have been stripped of all its hydrogen and even stranger yet, appeared to have exploded twice. As Ashley Villar of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explains, the almost unique observation fits with a model of the huge star getting closer to a black hole, the gravity of which may have disrupted the star enough to cause it to explode.
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(Image: Child getting a vaccine. Credit: Luis Alvarez via Getty Images)
The Journal. - Is an Algorithm Blocking Your Job Search? One Man Is Trying to Find Out.
Derek Mobley spent years applying for jobs online after he got laid off. After more than 100 rejections, he started to wonder whether Workday – the popular online recruiting platform – was to blame. Now, Mobley is suing Workday, alleging that the company’s hiring algorithm discriminated against him. Derek shares his experience, and WSJ’s Lauren Weber explains how his lawsuit got this far. Annie Minoff hosts.
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AI Is Coming for Entry-Level Jobs
What's the Worst AI Can Do? This Team Is Finding Out.
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Motley Fool Money - Making Sense of Market Hyperbole
There are some stunningly large data points pulling the market in different directions between cash on the sidelines and market valuations. These numbers can be a little paralyzing for investors without context and sifting through the signal versus the noise. Plus, space investing is having its week in the sun and wrapping up second quarter earnings.
Matt Frankel, Jon Quast, and Tyler Crowe discuss:
– The massive cash pile sitting on the sidelines
– How they invest when broader signals say the market’s overvalued.
– The fast changing landscape in the space indsury
– Second quarter earnings surprises from Dlocal, Circle Internet Group, and Sea Limited.
Companies discussed: BAC, BA, LMT, RKLB, FLY, NOC, DLO, CRCL, SE
Host: Tyler Crowe
Guests: Matt Frankel, Jon Quast.
Engineer: Dan Boyd
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