12 h. ago Power to the people: 60 years of Cruachan, Scotland’s hollow mountain and an engineering marvel

Cruachan Power Station has been supplying clean energy to hundreds of thousands of homes for 60 years and with a major upgrade will do so for many more. The hydro power station, built into Ben Cruachan, and the immense Cruachan Dam servicing it, are a marvel of engineering and awe-inspiring in scale, finds Janet Christie. Photographs by John Devlin

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7 d. ago Voices: This is what the world looks like when America is weak

Trump is choosing weakness over strength with Israel and Iran, writes Luke McGee. The US president has the power to bring people to the negotiating table, but offers no real sticks or carrots

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1 week ago Two people killed by falling trees and thousands without power after storms sweep southern states

Multiple tornado warnings were issued by forecasters

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1 week ago Marines in Los Angeles have power to detain people, says major general, as US cities brace for more protests – live

Maj Gen Scott Sherman says marines would be in the city ‘soon’; rallies protesting against sweeping immigration raids spread across USGovernor Greg Abbott has pledged to deploy National Guard troops across his state of Texas, becoming the first governor to do so as protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread throughout the United States.Abbott said on X that the Texas National Guard will “use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Surviving Syria's Prisons: Bravery of two brothers who exposed the atrocities of Assad's evil regime

What a strange power the television camera exercises over people. Point a lens at them and they will confess to crimes that, in court or under police questioning, they'd deny to their dying breath.

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2 w. ago Explosion in Welsh town sees pub and chippy shut and people left without power

People reported a 'big bang' and smoke was seen rising

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2 w. ago If Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS, rural America will pay a devastating price

Much of the country has little access to local news, with public media filling the void – and serving as a lifelineWhen Hurricane Helene walloped North Carolina last fall, residents were hit by a second threat at the same time: the dire need for accurate information.The loss of electric power amid the widespread flooding meant that people – especially those in isolated areas – were deprived of basic news. They needed to know about everything from road closures to the whereabouts of their family and friends to sources of drinkable water.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Therapy Dogs 2025: Here are the 13 best breeds of empathic dog to become therapy pets

These incredible dogs have the power to make people feel better.

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3 w. ago Tide is turning in Europe and beyond in favour of nuclear power

Spain’s recent blackout and AI datacentres’ energy needs are leading politicians to reach for the restart buttonWhen millions of people across the Iberian peninsula were left without power last month the political fallout ignited debate over Europe’s renewable energy agenda, and fuelled the rising interest in nuclear power.Europe’s largest power blackout in decades, still largely unexplained, has raised questions about whether renewable energy can be relied on to provide a stable source of clean energy. It has also fuelled a renewed interest in the global nuclear power renaissance already under way. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How to fight back against Trump? Look to poor people’s movements | Rev Dr Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss

Anti-poverty activism has provided a model for transformational power, based on four strategic principlesFor tens of millions of people, Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a grotesque nightmare. The proposed legislative cuts, including historic attacks on Medicaid and Snap, come at a time when 60% of Americans already cannot make ends meet. As justification, Maga Republicans are once again invoking the shibboleth of work requirements to demean and discredit the poor, even as they funnel billions of dollars into the war economy and lavish the wealthy with tax cuts.As anti-poverty organizers, we’ve often used the slogan: “They say cut back, we say fight back.” It’s a catchy turn of phrase, but it reveals that for too long we’ve been on the back foot. In the world’s richest country, in which mass poverty exists beside unprecedented plenty, we’re tired of just fending off the worst attacks. Too much ground is lost when our biggest wins are simply not losing past gains. Amid Trump’s...

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last month French authorities investigate second power blackout in two days

At least 45,000 people affected by ‘malicious act’ in Nice, a day after Cannes film festival disrupted by similar outageFrench authorities have launched an investigation into a power blackout blamed on sabotage that affected at least 45,000 people, just a day after a similar outage disrupted the final day of the Cannes film festival.Authorities in Nice said an electrical transformer had been set on fire in the west of the city in the early hours of Sunday, with power restored later in the day. A day earlier, a separate blaze, believed to have been started by arson, contributed to a power cut that hit Cannes. Continue reading...

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last month French authorities investigate power blackout blamed on sabotage

At least 45,000 people affected after electrical transformer set on fire and pylon pillars cut in ‘malicious act’French authorities have launched an investigation into a power blackout blamed on sabotage that affected at least 45,000 people, just a day after a similar outage disrupted the final day of the Cannes film festival.Authorities in Nice said an electrical transformer had been set on fire in the west of the city in the early hours of Sunday, with power restored later in the day. A day earlier, a separate blaze, believed to have been started by arson, contributed to a power cut that hit Cannes. Continue reading...

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last month George Floyd’s family fights for sacred ground where he took his last breath: ‘That’s my blood’

Minneapolis site where Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin in 2020 faces tense debate over how best to honor his legacyLast May, Roger Floyd and Thomas McLaurin walked the lengths of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, passing a roundabout with a garden, and a vacant gas station with a large sign that read: “Where there’s people there’s power.” Though it had been four years since the murder of George Floyd, their nephew and cousin, respectively, concrete barriers erected by the city to protect the area still cordoned off the corner of the street where he was killed by the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on 25 May 2020.Behind those barriers stands a memorial with a black-and-white mural of George Floyd on the side of a bus stop shelter. “That’s my blood that was laying there taking his last breath. What was he going through?” McLaurin recalled thinking as he stood in front of the mural. Flowers and stuffed animals from visitors surrounded the memorial. Roger said he...

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