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  • Anne-Karoline Distel announced that a new video on mapping historic lifting stones is now available on YouTube. Historically, lifting stones were used to test the physical strength of men.
  • The MapLibre May 2026 newsletter has been published, authored by Bart…
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Can Latin America’s right maintain their winning streak?

All across Latin America, right-wing leaders have been consolidating their power.

In Argentina, Javier Milei ’s La Libertad Avanza had a superb midterm election night last October, allowing the president to pass major labor reforms in March. Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa eased to reelection last year by a handsome margin. El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele no longer has term limits, meaning the…

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Mississippi GOP Will Hold Redistricting Vote at Infamous Jim Crow Site

Mississippi Republicans plan to hold a vote to redraw the state’s congressional map in a building central to the legacy of segregation.

The special legislative session is scheduled to take place on May 20 in what is now known as the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, ostensibly due to renovations in the House chamber in the newer Capitol building. But the Old Capitol was the site of Mississippi’s…

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Trump Considers Bailing Out His Family’s Major Business Partner

The Trump administration is considering a bailout for the United Arab Emirates over economic losses sustained as a result of the U.S. war with Iran.

_The Wall Street Journal_ reported Sunday that UAE officials are speaking with the White House about providing financial relief, such as a currency swap, if their economy takes an even bigger hit during the war. Khaled Mohamed Balama, governor of…

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Artemis II astronauts safely back on Earth after historic trip around moon

The Artemis II capsule and its four-member crew streaked through Earth’s atmosphere and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday after nearly 10 days in space, capping the first voyage by humans to the vicinity of the moon in over half a century.

NASA’s gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, dubbed Integrity, parachuted gently into calm seas off the Southern California coast shortly after 5:07…

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Orbán turns Citadella reopening into election-stage warning over war, energy and ‘dark clouds’

Budapest’s iconic Citadella has reopened after years of renovation, but PM Orbán turned the Easter ceremony into a dramatic warning about war, energy shortages and “dark clouds” over Hungary.

Continue reading: https://dailynewshungary.com/orban-citadella-opening-speech/

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Democrats Need New Stories

Democratic governors’ affordability politics is trashing “what remains of U.S. climate policy,” Politico reports this week. The piece points to New York Governor Kathy Hochul trying to delay legally binding emissions targets; Maryland Governor Wes Moore “backing legislation that would slash energy efficiency charges from utility bills”; Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro pulling out of the…

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Staircase to Nowhere: MAGA's Crowning Achievement

In a perhaps unprecedented dark time for America and the world, let us take solace in our indomitable Dear Stable Genius, who remains unwaveringly focused on taking care of shiny business: Gold social security cards like Elvis, a $400 million, lopsided shed/ballroom with gaudy columns but no main entrance, and of course gold toilets - which all keeps him so busy he hardly has time to threaten…

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Ghibli Museum building becomes a cuddly cushion

Now you can literally hug a Ghibli building. Studio Ghibli is famous for conjuring up fantastical buildings in the anime world, but in Tokyo you can find a real-world Ghibli building, at the Ghibli Museum. As you might expect from an architectural design overseen by the studio, the museum building has splashes of colour, gentle […]

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Blue Governors Are Tacking Rightward on Fossil Fuels

Last week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey held a press conference to address concerns around spiking utility bills. She touted growing wind and solar industries as crucial solutions to the affordability crisis, but also importing more fracked gas from out of state.

“We have gas pipeline expansion on the Algonquin—that’s good!” she said from her podium, referencing a $300 million project to…

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Warning for builders: price surge expected in Hungary’s construction materials market

Building materials in Hungary could soon become significantly more expensive. Industry insiders say manufacturers have already warned retailers about planned price increases, raising concerns that construction costs may rise again in the months ahead.

Continue reading: https://dailynewshungary.com/building-material-hungary-2026-construction/

Synthetic Minds | Agentic Commerce Is Here. The Checkout Layer Is a War Zone.

AI shopping agents are here, but the infrastructure is a war zone. A court blocked Perplexity from Amazon. OpenAI pulled back from checkout. Shopify and Amazon now build rival agentic commerce layers. This signal is not what agents can do — it is who controls the checkout when no human clicks buy.

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Iran Says American Tech and Banking Companies Are Legitimate Targets

Iran has declared that U.S. tech and banking companies are now legitimate targets.

An Iranian media outlet affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tasnim news agency, released a list of offices and infrastructure run by American companies including Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia, and Oracle and called them “Iran’s new targets,” Al Jazeera English reports.

“As the scope…

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LOCAL DEVELOPER VOLUNTARILY BUILDING NON-PROFIT SOCIAL HOUSING PROJECT AT 441 EAST PENDER STREET Local developer PACK Buildings & Technology has voluntarily chosen to build a non-profit social housing complex at 441 East Pender Street. The project, Powerhouse X, is a six-storey residence that would provide 55 independent living units in the Downtown Eastside. While the ... Read more

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