The image reflects Tesla CEO Elon Musk interacting with US president-elect Donald Trump. — AFP/File President Donald Trump lashed out on Thursday against Elon Musk, saying he was “disappointed” by the billionaire’s public opposition to the sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that is at the heart of Trump’s agenda. “Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know …
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The image shows the signboard of Council of Islamic Ideology. — APP/File CII terms Child Marriage Restraint Bill as un-Islamic. Bill was not referred to seek council’s opinion: CII CII forms committee for draft of Muslim Family Laws. ISLAMABAD: The Child Marriage Restraint Bill, 2025 which fixes minimum age for marriage at 18, was rejected by the Council of Islamic Ideology …
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The Punjab Assembly building in Lahore. — Geo.tv/File LAHORE: A new local government bill in Punjab grants sweeping authority to unelected deputy commissioners (DCs), sidelining elected officials and raising alarms about democratic backsliding in Pakistan’s most populous province. Tabled by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on March 7 in the Punjab Assembly, the bill is currently under review in …
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US President Donald Trump signs the bill during the ceremony for the Take it Down Act, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 19, 2025. — Reuters WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has signed a new law that makes it a crime to share fake or real intimate images created without someone’s permission. The law …
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Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After leaping upward in the 2000s, global giving for health grew very slowly through the 2010s. The culture of philanthropy has changed somewhat, too, with the age of the Giving Pledge — in which hundreds of the world’s richest people promised …
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In the next 20 years, Gates believes, progress will be ‘incredible.’ “This is a miraculous time,” he told me, with the most exciting work the foundation has ever done sitting in the R.&D. pipeline now, waiting to be delivered. It was almost hard to keep up with his survey of breakthroughs: on H.I.V., on tuberculosis, but also on more obscure …
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The third scene of the new Broadway production of “Eureka Day” could be titled The Way We Discourse Now. As written by the playwright Jonathan Spector, the scene reliably has audiences laughing so loudly that the actors are drowned out. The situation is this: It is 2018. The principal of the progressive private school Eureka Day in Berkeley, Calif., and …
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For thousands of years, Cardea has been known as the Roman goddess of doorways and transitions, a guardian of thresholds. On Monday, she joined the celestial ranks of fellow mythological figures like Mars, Venus and Andromeda. But Cardea is not a planet or a constellation. She is as a quasi-moon — a very-real type of asteroid that appears to be …
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