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The boomerang effect at work: Why well-intended policies backfire
A simple idea with big consequences: some rules, nudges and culture pushes do not change behaviour, they reverse it. Here is what triggers the boomerang effect at work, how it shows up, and how managers can reduce the backlash.
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Bryan Johnson says he did not biologically age for a year. Here is what that really means
He says his tests show his body did not get older over the past year, as he pursues an “immortality by 2039” target. Researchers caution that today’s biological-age tools can be useful for trends, but noisy for definitive individual claims.
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An 8-year-old froze to death. Now his mother is fighting a proposed $9 million settlement
After her 8-year-old son died from exposure, his mother says a proposed $9 million NYPD settlement is not accountability. As the city moves to close the case, she is demanding answers, responsibility, and reforms so the same tragedy is not repeated.
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24 hours that exposed the limits of Donald Trump’s grip on power
From Indiana’s defiant Republicans to stalled prosecutions and Senate pushback, a single day offered a rare glimpse of institutions and allies refusing to bend to the former president’s pressure.
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Tucker Carlson deepens rifts on the American right with fresh attacks on allies, institutions and Trumpworld
A podcast appearance sharpens ideological and personal divides inside the Republican coalition as conspiracy claims, foreign ties and loyalty tests collide.
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Ex-Michigan coach Sherrone Moore fired and charged: What led to his dismissal and arrest
A university investigation, an alleged break-in and criminal charges have upended one of the most successful recent tenures in Michigan football history.
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María Corina Machado’s escape from Venezuela to Oslo: How the opposition leader slipped past checkpoints and crossed the Caribbean
A private US rescue firm says it ran a covert land–sea–air extraction as Maduro’s government tightened pressure on the opposition.
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Should you take a Rs 1.3 crore job in Antarctica? Inside the viral six-month offer, risks, and trade-offs
A Reddit user says he has been offered roughly $145,000 (about Rs 1.3 crore) for a six-month contract at McMurdo Station. The package sounds life-changing, but medical screening, isolation, limited connectivity, and relationship strain are the variables that decide whether the money is worth it.
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Indian billionaire MA Yusuff Ali spotted boarding a public bus in Dubai goes viral: What’s the story?
A brief clip of Lulu Group Chairman MA Yusuff Ali, whose wealth is estimated at about $5.9 billion, boarding a public bus in Dubai and shaking hands with the driver has gone viral, prompting fresh debate about humility, optics, and leadership in public life.
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Trump-backed WLFI expands USD1 reach with Aster Trade listing and wider stablecoin push
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial has added Aster Trade as a new venue for USD1 trading pairs, a move aimed at widening the stablecoin’s liquidity and day-to-day utility in DeFi markets while keeping attention on transparency, reserves, and regulatory risk.
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Newly released Epstein photos include novelty Trump-branded condoms, part of 95,000-image trove under scrutiny
A newly released batch of photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate includes an image of novelty condom wrappers with a cartoon depiction of President Donald Trump, prompting political pushback and renewed scrutiny of what the wider trove of Epstein material does, and does not, show.
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Indiana Republicans break with Trump and why the pressure campaign failed
Personal lines were crossed, threats backfired and a deeply conservative state drew limits on loyalty politics.
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Can OpenAI pull ahead again now that Google has caught up on AI?
A new GPT-5.2 release shows the race has tightened, and OpenAI’s bigger challenge may be financial, not technical.
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Hollywood braces for a defining reckoning as Warner Bros sale hangs in the balance
Two rival bids promise very different futures, but both leave the film industry anxious about jobs, politics and the survival of the studio system.
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Venezuela’s oil lifeline is under pressure; why one seized tanker matters
A single intercepted cargo exposes how dependent Caracas still is on crude exports, and how vulnerable that lifeline is to pressure from Washington.
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How Jan Marsalek’s Libyan money trail reveals a deeper Russian influence game
Behind shell companies, cement plants and boardroom deals lies a quiet struggle over stolen money and strategic assets.
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Told he had three hours to live, he went on to build a $10 million gaming empire
Seventeen years after doctors told him he had only three hours to live, Zhenghua “Z” Yang runs Serenity Forge, a fast-growing indie games publisher. His near-death crisis shaped a mission to build emotionally resonant titles that also became a multimillion-dollar business.
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Trump’s memecoin tries a reset with a “Billionaires Club” mobile game
A Trump-branded play-to-earn title, due on December 30, is being positioned as a utility boost for the $TRUMP token after a steep slide. The project promises up to $1 million in token rewards, but faces regulatory and credibility questions.
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The quiet reason opposite sides of a dice always total 7
A mix of history, standardisation and probability explains one of the most familiar quirks of the humble cube.
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Flipperachi: The Bahraini rapper whose FA9LA became Dhurandhar’s surprise anthem
Known offstage as Hussam Aseem, Flipperachi has spent years building a Gulf hip-hop following. After Dhurandhar used his 2024 track FA9LA for a key scene, the song surged across social media and streaming worldwide.
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Canada committee votes to strip sacred swastika from hate-symbol language in anti-hate bill
A parliamentary committee unanimously agreed to remove references that link the ancient religious swastika with the Nazi emblem in federal hate-crime legislation.
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How Andrew Tate won freedom from Romania as political allies rallied behind him
Andrew Tate’s release from Romania followed months of political outreach, private conversations and rising influence inside Trump-aligned circles, even as serious criminal allegations against him continue across three countries.
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Inside China’s AI ‘electron gap’: How a supercharged power grid is reshaping the tech race with the US
China’s massive, cheap and fast-expanding electricity network is turning remote Inner Mongolia into a “cloud valley,” raising fears in Washington that power, not just chips, could decide who leads the global AI race.
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Scientists identify the earliest evidence of human-made fire in a 400,000-year-old hearth
A 400,000-year-old hearth in an English clay pit suggests our distant cousins were making and tending fire far earlier than scientists once believed.
