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AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish

POLLSTERS HAVE been burning through their nine lives. First, as caller ID spread, people stopped answering their phone calls and response rates tumbled to single digits. Then political polarisation and distrust made some Americans even less likely to answer surveys. That contributed to a series of embarrassing polling misses in elections where Donald Trump was…

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‘A glimpse into their secret lives’

A conservation group is celebrating after a years-long effort to spot an elusive feline known as the “ghost of the Andes” finally bore fruit. Big Cat Rescue posted footage on YouTube of a family of Andean mountain cats captured on film by a trail camera. In a Facebook post, it described the scene as “a…

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Mormonism’s surprising boom in Africa

Two decades ago Sampson Boamah did something unusual for a Ghanaian high school student: he became a Mormon. Back then the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the American Christian sect is formally known, was on the fringes in Africa. Many viewed it as “the white people’s church”. On his first mission in…

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Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev, foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner(Reuters)

Kremlin says US-Russia talks ‘constructive’ but ‘no compromise reached’

Kremlin on Tuesday said that “no compromise” was reached on the key questions of territory in Ukraine after hours of talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev, foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner(Reuters)…

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