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How closely should you be tracking your spending?The Explainer Tracking your spending is effectively an exercise in attention
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Air conditioning: how it worksThe Explainer UK’s summer heatwaves spark huge rise in demand for Chinese aircon models
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Japan to create first post-war intelligence agencyThe Explainer PM Sanae Takaichi hails ‘first step’ towards strengthening the country’s espionage capabilities in the face of growing Chinese and Russian threats
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Another Arctic island is caught in geopolitical crosshairsThe Explainer But it isn’t the one you are probably thinking of
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Talking Points
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The Platner affair: ‘vibes’, sexting and a Nazi tattooTalking Point Graham Platner is a ‘cautionary tale’ for Democrats, and highlights the party’s problems with the selection of their candidates
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Ann Widdecombe: a political murder?
Talking Point Police are still investigating the motive for the murder of former Reform UK politician and TV personality
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Ai Weiwei: Button Up! – an exhibition of ‘extraordinary’ courageTalking Point As a critic of the Chinese Communist Party, the artist’s ‘risk has real meaning’, but he has ‘never excelled in nuance’
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Under the Radar
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The ‘gruff’ outsider threatening Benjamin NetanyahuUnder The Radar Gadi Eisenkot is the latest challenger hoping to unseat the Israeli veteran
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Australia and Fiji’s new defence pactUnder the Radar Alliance is one of a flurry of treaties Canberra is making in the Pacific to cooperate on security and counter China’s growing influence
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Why there’s ‘raspberry sugar’ in spaceUnder the Radar Evidence of erythrulose ‘particularly relevant’ for origin-of-life research
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Speed Reads
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Taco Bell supplier potential source of parasitic infectionSpeed Read Over 1,600 cases of the infection have been identified nationwide
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Trump speech sows doubt about election securitySpeed Read The 2020 election was widely considered to be safe and secure
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Wildfire smoke blankets Midwest, parts of NortheastSpeed Read Over 120 million people were at risk of dangerous air quality
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Canadian wildfire smoke spreads over USSpeed Read Large swaths of the US remain under air quality warnings
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