Fact & Spin

February 24, 2024: NATO premier endorsement, Vice layoffs and historic lunar landing

Facts & Spins for February 24, 2024 Top Stories: NATO powers back the Netherlands’ outgoing premier for the alliance’s top role, German lawyers sue Olaf Scholz over Gaza, Honduras’ ex-president faces a US drug trafficking trial, Shamima Begum loses her citizenship appeal in a UK Islamic State group case, A magician takes responsibility for the New Hampshire Biden deepfake, A gold mine collapse in Venezuela kills over 20, A deadly apartment block inferno strikes Valencia, Spain, Vice lays off hundreds of staff and will no longer web-publish, Reddit files a long-awaited initial public offering, and a US company makes a historic lunar landing.
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February 23, 2024: Albania-Italy migrant deal, record Nikkei index and Chinese hacking docs

Facts & Spins for February 23, 2024 Top Stories: Albania agrees to host migrants for Italy, Japan’s Nikkei index surges past 1989's record high, leaked files allegedly expose China’s international hacking efforts, a UK House of Commons speaker faces calls to resign over a Gaza cease-fire vote, the CIA’s chief travels to Paris for Israeli hostage deal talks, the US faces multiple cell service outages, a Texas judge rules a school can enforce short hair, a study finds COVID deaths are likely higher than official records, Google apologizes for its AI image generator’s historical inaccuracies, and a defunct European satellite crashes to Earth.
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February 22, 2024: Deepfake regulation letter, Alabama embryo ruling and global cybergang disrupted

Facts & Spins for February 22, 2024 Top Stories: AI experts and public figures sign an urgent letter about deepfake dangers, A US drone is shot down by a Houthi missile, At the ICJ, the US says Israel shouldn't be ordered to leave Palestinian territory, Farmers in India plan to resume their protests, Estonia detains 10 Russians in an alleged “sabotage” plot, Donald Trump compares his legal issues to Navalny’s death, Hunter Biden claims Alexander Smirnov’s claims collapsed a DOJ plea deal, Alabama’s supreme court rules that frozen embryos can be defined as children, The Biden admin. announces 150K new borrowers will receive student loan relief, and a notorious international cybergang is disrupted.
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February 21, 2024: AI task force, Capital One-Discover merger and COVID vaccine study

Facts & Spins for February 21, 2024 Top Stories: The US shares an alternative resolution for a temporary Gaza cease-fire, the House leaders launch a bipartisan AI Congressional task force, SCOTUS declines to hear a Trump legal ally's sanctions appeal, Australia plans to build its biggest navy since World War II, South Korean doctors protest plans to add more physicians, military leaders dissolve Guinea’s government, the wife of Haiti’s assassinated president is accused in his killing, Capital One reaches an agreement to acquire Discover, China launches a new passenger jet internationally, and a COVID vaccine study finds links to health conditions.
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February 20, 2024: PNG tribal violence, Trump sneakers and record-setting NBA game

Facts & Spins for February 20, 2024 Top Stories: Navalny's body is reportedly found bruised in an Arctic morgue, Tribal violence kills at least 26 in Papua New Guinea, Ursula Von der Leyen seeks another term leading the European Commission, Wisconsin approves new legislative maps, China offers to back Hungary in security matters, Israel warns of an assault on Rafah by Ramadan, Russia intensifies attacks on Ukraine, The US strikes more targets in Yemen, The Falkland Islands dispute causes concern for marine life, Trump launches a $400 sneaker line, and the NBA All-Star Game sets a historic scoring milestone.
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February 17, 2024: Navalny prison death, AI election interference pledge and Greek same-sex marriage

Facts & Spins for February 17, 2024 Top Stories: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny dies in prison, An FBI informant is charged with lying about Biden bribe claims, Trump’s Stormy Daniels hush-money trial is set for March, Israel responds to South Africa's 'urgent request' in its ICJ genocide case, Israeli military intelligence warns Hamas will survive the Gaza war, Britain's Labour Party wins big in a special election, Greece legalizes same-sex marriage, The US Border Patrol's second in command is suspended for alleged misconduct, Tech giants pledge to fight AI election interference, and OpenAI launches a new AI video-creation tool.
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February 16, 2024: Russian space weapons, Indian electoral bonds and beef-infused rice

Facts & Spins for February 16, 2024 Top Stories: Putin is accused of developing a space-based nuclear weapon, India’s Supreme Court scraps a controversial election funding system, one person is killed and 21 injured in a Super Bowl parade shooting, the US and its Middle Eastern allies discuss an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, NATO’s chief says there’s been an 'unprecedented rise' in member defense spending, a UN envoy warns of ‘dangerous’ escalation in Yemen, Japan unexpectedly slips into a recession, a report says 'safety failures' led to 344 federal inmate deaths, Google plans to map methane from space, and scientists develop a beef-rice hybrid for the first time.
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February 15, 2024: Mayorkas impeachment, wanted Estonian PM and OpenAI hacking tools

Facts & Spins for February 15, 2024 Top Stories: The US House votes to impeach homeland security secretary Mayorkas, Russia puts Estonia’s Prime Minister on the Kremlin’s wanted list, South Africa urges the ICJ to consider action on Israel’s Rafah assault, Indonesia’s Subianto claims victory in the Presidential election, A coalition Government Selects Shehbaz Sharif as Pakistan’s prime minister, Dozens of civilians are reportedly killed by Ethiopian forces in Amhara, Democrats pick up a key seat in US House in a New York special election, The US’ immigration agency is considering releasing migrants due to budget shortfalls, A report claims that the Obama-era CIA recruited other nations to spy on Donald Trump, and Microsoft claims Russia, China, and others are using OpenAI tools to support hacking.
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February 14, 2024: $95B aid package, record defense spending and dementia-predicting proteins

Facts & Spins for February 14, 2024 Top Stories: The US Senate passes a $95B aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, Cairo hosts talks on a potential Israel-Gaza cease-fire, Trump seeks a Supreme Court pause in his 2020 election case, DA Fani Willis could be disqualified from Trump’s Georgia case, Indonesia’s outgoing president is accused of election interference, former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra will be released from prison early, global defense spending reached a record $2.2T last year, US inflation was worse than expected in January, the CDC plans to end its five-day COVID isolation rule, and a study finds proteins may be able to predict dementia.
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February 13, 2024: Trump NATO comments, Israeli hostage rescue and world-record marathoner death

Facts & Spins for February 13, 2024 Top Stories: Trump says the US shouldn’t protect NATO allies who don't pay, Israel rescues two hostages held in Gaza, US defense secretary Lloyd Austin is hospitalized again, Alexander Stubb wins Finland's presidential election, A report contradicts Washington’s account of the dismissal of Ukraine’s top general, Indian police block roads as farmers advance on New Delhi, France rescinds birthright citizenship for Mayotte, Hungary's president resigns over a sex abuser pardon, The marathon world-record holder is killed in a crash, The Biden campaign joins TikTok, and a new prosthetic hand enables amputees to sense temperature.
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