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2024 July


Lawmakers want VA to report on its use of automation to process benefits claims

Lawmakers want VA to report on its use of automation to process benefits claims

Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., shown here outside a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol in December 2023, is backing a bill to compel the Department of Veterans Affairs to report on its use automated tools to process benefits claims.


Zelenskyy to Trump: If you have a plan to end the war, tell us now

Zelenskyy to Trump: If you have a plan to end the war, tell us now

He said, however, that he is mulling a deal whereby NATO commits to no further eastward expansion — specifically into Ukraine and Georgia — and negotiates with the Russian president over how much Ukrainian territory Moscow can keep, officials and advisors in contact with Trump told POLITICO.


Even short trips to space can change an astronaut’s biology

Even short trips to space can change an astronaut’s biology

We also wrote a review article with a more futuristic perspective of how better understanding telomeres and aging might begin to inform the ability of humans to not only survive long-duration space travel but also to thrive and even colonize other planets.


EU diplomat imprisoned in Iran kept his sexuality a secret from the regime

EU diplomat imprisoned in Iran kept his sexuality a secret from the regime

“My strong feelings for my then-boyfriend and now-fiancé Jonathan kept me alive,” he added in the Swedish TV interview.


Supreme Court blocks an EPA plan to curb ozone air pollution

Supreme Court blocks an EPA plan to curb ozone air pollution

But Justice Amy Coney Barrett argued in a strongly worded dissent that the agency “thoroughly explained” its methodology for calculating emissions reduction requirements, which depends not on the number of states included in the plan, but on cost-effective measures that can be achieved at each source of pollution.


DHS cyber hiring program got off on the wrong foot, CIO says, but progress is showing

DHS cyber hiring program got off on the wrong foot, CIO says, but progress is showing

Hysen told Congress that the department has almost 2,000 cybersecurity vacancies and said that DHS "has committed to expanding CTMS" to include other agency components while also broadening the program to accommodate applicants specializing in artificial intelligence and data science.


Five simple steps to deceiving your way to Downing Street

Five simple steps to deceiving your way to Downing Street

A major Tory social media ad campaign targeting hundreds of individual constituencies claimed Labour was planning to immediately launch a “national ULEZ” scheme if it won on July 4, a reference to London’s anti-gas guzzling car levy.


French election: What happens next?

French election: What happens next?

On the left, voting instructions appear clearer: All leaders within the New Popular Front bloc have called on their third-place finishers to pull out whenever the National Rally is in the lead, clearing the field for centrist candidates when they’re best placed to defeat Le Pen’s party.


Zelenskyy urges Biden to allow Ukraine to hit Russian airfields to stop Kremlin bombing campaign

Zelenskyy urges Biden to allow Ukraine to hit Russian airfields to stop Kremlin bombing campaign

KYIV — Ukraine cannot stop the deadly rain of Russian bombs unless the U.S. gives permission to use long-range missiles to hit airfields in Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a new interview.


Labour energy chief Ed Miliband faces local solar backlash

Labour energy chief Ed Miliband faces local solar backlash

Solar farms as big as Fenwick are treated as so-called nationally significant infrastructure projects, meaning permission will be decided by the planning inspectorate not the local council — and then rubber-stamped by the energy secretary.


Macron is already over. Can anyone stop Le Pen?

Macron is already over. Can anyone stop Le Pen?

If the second-round vote on July 7 delivers a parliamentary majority for the National Rally — and forecasts suggest it’s possible — France will be in uncharted waters: The country would be governed, at least in part, by politicians who made their names sympathizing with Vladimir Putin while vowing to rip up the European Union, wage war on migration and quit NATO.