Sophie Mac
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President Donald Trump wants to engineer a revival of US shipbuilding. His efforts to chip away at China’s dominance have become a flashpoint in the wider trade war. Here's what to know.
How Trump Is Targeting China’s Shipbuilding Dominance
As part of US President Donald Trump’s campaign to bring more manufacturing to American shores, he wants to engineer a revival of domestic shipbuilding. To that end, his efforts to chip away at China’s dominance in the industry have become a flashpoint in the wider trade war.
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The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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After her partner was detained, leaving her to support two kids by herself, Pérez applied to self-deport.
DHS set a departure date — then went silent. No information, no plane tickets.
Months in, she feels trapped in a country that doesn’t want her.
DHS set a departure date — then went silent. No information, no plane tickets.
Months in, she feels trapped in a country that doesn’t want her.
“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America
Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...
www.propublica.org
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Tel Aviv football derby between Hapoel and Maccabi called off after rioting
Tel Aviv football derby between Hapoel and Maccabi called off after rioting
Israeli police make nine arrests, citing ‘disorderly conduct, riots, injured police officers’ and infrastructure damage
The Tel Aviv football derby between Hapoel and Maccabi has been called off after rioting and “risks to human life”, Israeli police said.
The match was due to take place on Sunday night at Bloomfield Stadium, a ground the two sides share, as a home fixture for Hapoel. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.