Russia’s soldiers bringing wartime violence back home from the BBC
Many of the attackers have previous criminal convictions and were released from prison purely to fight.Read More
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Musk rebuked after siding with Meloni on Italy’s foreign migrant centres from the BBC
There is increasing tension between Italy’s ruling coalition and the judiciary over migrant centres.Read More
‘Anointed by God’: The Christians who see Trump as their saviour from the BBC
Many churchgoers consider Trump their hope as more Americans turn away from religion.Read More
Final phase for mass rape trial that has horrified France from the BBC
Fifty-one men are on trial in a case that focuses on a formerly married couple, Dominique and Gisèle Pelicot.Read More
Xi says he will work with Trump in last meeting with Biden from the BBC
The incoming Trump administration loomed over Chinese President Jinping Xi’s final meeting with outgoing US president Joe Biden.Read More
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky from the Verge Wes Davis
Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge So, you’ve finally decided to give Bluesky a shot. The social network has come a long way since the early bare-bones days of invite-only signups and recently grew past the 15 million user mark. Along the way, it’s gathered a lot of familiar posting platform features, like direct messages,…
NFL fans worry Netflix’s bad Tyson vs. Paul stream means it can’t handle football from the Verge Wes Davis
Photo: Sarah Stier / Getty Images for Netflix Netflix’s livestream of the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul boxing match was a mess. I’m not talking about the bout itself — although people had their qualms with that, too — it’s the livestream, which people across the internet complained was plagued by buffering, unstable, and unwatchable…
Gabe Newell says Half-Life 2: Episode 3 didn’t happen because he was ‘stumped’ from the Verge Wes Davis
Concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode 3, from the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Documentary. | Screenshot: YouTube Unsurprisingly, yesterday’s big Half-Life release wasn’t the sequel to Half-Life 2 or even the third Half-Life 2: Episode entry, but a 20th-anniversary update to Valve’s legendary 2004 game. And given what studio co-founder Gabe Newell has to say…
Narwal’s Freo X Ultra, the best mopping robot available, is on sale for a new low price from the Verge Sheena Vasani
The Freo X Ultra packs a lot of features for the price, including the ability to automatically remop your floors when necessary. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Hosting Thanksgiving dinner is fun and all, but the amount of cleaning you have to do afterward can be exhausting. The Narwal Freo X…
The FTC says spam call complaints are way down since 2021 from the Verge Wes Davis
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls have dropped for the third straight year, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday. Reports of such calls have fallen by over 50 percent versus 2021, according to the FTC — a decline that could be thanks in no small part to stepped-up…