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How an American woman lost a bitter custody battle with her Saudi ex and fled the kingdom to save her daughter
Bethany Vierra made headlines in 2019 when she accused her Saudi ex-husband of using his power as h…
Bill Bostock
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Saudi Arabia's $500 billion megacity Neom is creating plans to harvest an unprecedented amount of data from future residents. Experts say it's either dystopian or genius.
Neom's head of technology told ZDNet that Neom would function as the world's first "cognitive city,…
Bill Bostock
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'The Queen's Gambit' and the pandemic injected new life into the multimillion-dollar chess industry, with esports teams and sponsors rushing to snap up the game's Twitch stars
Celebrities like Logic, Rainn Wilson, and MrBeast played in a chess tournament that was streamed li…
Bill Bostock
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As the pandemic shatters Americans' mental health, the FDA, psychiatrists, and developers are betting on smartphone apps to treat them directly
Therapists are oversubscribed and new antidepressants are little better than old ones. A new cohort…
Bill Bostock
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The world's best chess player said Netflix's 'The Queen's Gambit' 'did chess better' than anything else Hollywood has done, but the game still has a culture of belittling women
"The Queen's Gambit" is Netflix most popular show right now. Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen gave us his…
Bill Bostock
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A Saudi dissident suing Twitter over a massive 2016 hack says the platform's incompetence got multiple whistleblowers killed
Ali al-Ahmed told Business Insider that his sources in were exposed when Saudi spies unwittingly em…
Bill Bostock
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People are breaking lockdown and risking their health to rave in secret during the pandemic: 'Everyone is there for the music, not thinking about this s---'
The coronavirus pandemic has driven partying underground. The London police identified at least 500…
Bill Bostock
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A Saudi princess, silenced
Since 2017, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed has silenced his critics. But the mysterious deten…
Bill Bostock
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Imprisoned Saudi Princess Basmah hoped she would be granted mercy in Ramadan, but her cousin Mohammed bin Salman has turned a blind eye
Basmah is currently held without charge in Saudi Arabia's notorious al-Ha'ir prison as her health d…
Bill Bostock
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Even if a successful coronavirus vaccine is developed, billions could struggle to access it because of a global shortage of glass vials
Vaccines are stored in glass vials, which are running low, slow to produce, and invariably the main…
Bill Bostock
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How 'Professor Lockdown' helped save tens of thousands of lives worldwide — and carried COVID-19 into Downing Street
Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London has exerted titanic influence on how governments around th…
Bill Bostock
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Florida school board rejects measure to observe LGBTQ History Month, citing concerns about violating Gov. Ron DeSantis-backed sex education law
The late-night vote was 8-1, and the measure would have included a provision to teach about Supreme…
Kimberly Leonard
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Russian ambassador pelted with red substance during country's Victory Day celebrations
Protesters approached Russian ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev as he went to Warsaw's Soviet Mil…
Sinéad Baker
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Kazakhstan shut down the internet as violent fuel-price protests rock the country and force out the government
The government has resigned and protesters have managed to get armoured vehicles to retreat as prot…
Sinéad Baker
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Trump asks 'DO YOU MISS ME YET' in a statement about Afghanistan, via a proxy on Twitter
Trump's spokeswoman tweeted out the former President's statement on Afghanistan. Twitter rules stat…
Bethany Dawson
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Caitlyn Jenner's run for California governor is a 'vanity joke,' says trans state senator Sarah McBride
Sarah McBride, the highest-ranking trans official in the US, told Insider that Caitlyn Jenner's cam…
Joshua Zitser
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A lawmaker pushing to rename the FBI headquarters dismissed J. Edgar Hoover as racist and misogynistic
Rep. Gerry Connolly said he introduced legislation to replace the nod to former FBI Director J. Edg…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Bill Gates said the transition between presidential administrations is 'complicating' the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, but 'we'll get through this in a positive way'
"I think we'll get through this in a positive way," Gates said in an interview with CNN's "State of…
Inyoung Choi
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CNN accuses Minnesota police of lying about their arrest of a black reporter and his crew
The CNN reporter Omar Jimenez was on live TV as he identified himself and his crew as members of th…
Eliza Relman
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Russia has been launching heavy 1960s era anti-ship missiles that can cause mass casualties into Ukraine, officials warn
Officials said the 5.5 ton Kh-22 missile was designed to destroy aircraft carriers using a nuclear …