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Isabella Walker

2692 Posts
Jan
30
2024
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By Isabella Walker
Brazilian police are investigating Carlos Bolsonaro, son of the former president, in a case of illegal espionage

Brazilian police are investigating Carlos Bolsonaro, son of the former president, in a case of illegal espionage

Politics
Week after week the police and judicial siege tightens around the former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, who lost power and immunity 13 months ago. Federal police are investigating his son Carlos, 41, a city councilor in Rio de Janeiro, in a case of illegal espionage perpetrated by Brazilian secret services during his father's tenure, Reuters confirmed on Monday. The investigators are ordered to search his house and official office; They suspect that the mayor and digital strategist of the Bolsonaro clan was one of the recipients of information collected without judicial authorization. The patriarch and leader of the Brazilian…
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Jan
30
2024
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The horror of fighting in a flying fortress: ‘The Masters of the Air’ shows air warfare like it’s never been seen | Television

The horror of fighting in a flying fortress: ‘The Masters of the Air’ shows air warfare like it’s never been seen | Television

Culture and Entertainment
Swarms of German fighters pass through formations of American bombers like deadly lightning in a sky streaked with contrails and the murderous glare of tracers. Up there, on an infinite battlefield, a furious and desperate fight takes place. The B-17s fall, plummeting into eternity or spinning around like giant burning tree leaves. The pilots of the Flying Fortresses try to maintain formation so as not to turn their planes into solitary prey. And in the midst of the storm of destruction, the gunner in the exposed ventral turret of one of the great machines explodes in a cloud of blood…
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Jan
30
2024
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Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras

Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras

Science and Technology
Ring, a home security camera company owned by Amazon, said that it would stop letting police departments request users’ footage in its app amid longstanding concerns from privacy advocates about the company’s relationship with law enforcement.Eric Kuhn, the general manager of subscriptions and software for the Ring app Neighbors, announced on Wednesday that the company was shutting down a feature that allowed the police to request and receive videos from users of the app, a social platform similar to Nextdoor and Citizen where people can share alerts about crime near their home.Mr. Kuhn did not say why Ring was eliminating…
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Jan
30
2024
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By Isabella Walker
What Hefei, China’s EV City, Says About the State of the Economy

What Hefei, China’s EV City, Says About the State of the Economy

Investments and Business
Ultramodern factories churn out electric cars and solar panels in Hefei, an industrial center in the heart of central China. Broad avenues link office towers and landscaped parks. Subway lines open at a brisk pace.Yet at Hefei’s market for construction materials, which fills 10 city blocks, local merchants are gloomy. Wu Junlin, a vendor of doors, has closed two of his three stores and laid off all but one of his dozen employees.“I have been doing this for 20 years — after all these years, this year is the worst,” he said, sitting in his last store with no customers…
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