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This article is an on-site version of our The Week Ahead newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Sunday. Explore all of our newsletters hereHello and welcome to the working week.It’s anointment time. Barring last-minute blow-ups, Friedrich Merz will be confirmed as chancellor by the German parliament on Tuesday, following a press conference a day earlier to rubber stamp the coalition deal the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader has concluded with the Social Democratic party (SPD). Merz’s cabinet nominations, including Katherina Reiche, a senior executive at German energy group Eon, to run the economy…

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Roku is investigating user reports of washed-out colors when streaming HDR content from Disney Plus, according to a thread on the Roku issue tracking board. However, the issue seems to go beyond that, affecting almost any app for Roku TVs, suggest user comments on the thread over the last week. The problem appears to be tied to a recent Roku software update.A community moderator called RokuEmmanuel-D writes in an update from Thursday that the company is “investigating the Disney Plus HDR content that was washed out after the recent update,” and asks for community members to share examples and details…

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5/5/2025-|آخر تحديث: 5/5/202501:22 ص (توقيت مكة)مصدر دبلوماسي للجزيرة: باكستان طلبت رسميا عقد جلسة مشاورات طارئة مغلقة لمجلس الأمن الدولي. طلب عقد الجلسة جاء في ضوء تصاعد التوتر بين الهند وباكستان خاصة في كشمير. التفاصيل بعد قليل..

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It all comes down to this. The Presidents’ Trophy-winning Winnipeg Jets host the St. Louis Blues in the 200th Game 7 in Stanley Cup playoffs history Sunday (7 p.m. ET, TBS).Editor’s Picks2 RelatedOne team will advance to the second round, while the other will get an early start to the offseason — and try to fix what went wrong.For the Blues, this is the club’s 19th all-time Game 7, the most of any non-Original Six team. They have gone 10-8 in Games 7s, with the most recent one being the 2019 Stanley Cup Final against the Boston Bruins, which they…

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While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Prime Day, many great iPad deals are attainable outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s often some amount to be saved, particularly on Apple’s more affordable iPads. The most recent iPad Pro and iPad Mini are also regularly discounted, as is the latest iPad Air.It’s difficult to know where exactly you can find the most notable iPad deals unless you’re scouring the major retailers on a daily basis. But that’s often what our deal hunters at…

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اتفق محللون وخبراء سياسيون على أن استهداف جماعة الحوثي لمطار بن غوريون الإسرائيلي بصاروخ باليستي يمثل تطورا نوعيا في المواجهة الجارية، ويكشف عن اختراق فعلي لمنظومة الردع الإسرائيلية، ما ستكون له تداعيات أمنية وسياسية كبيرة في الداخل الإسرائيلي وعلى مستوى الإقليم. وشدد المشاركون في حلقة مسار الأحداث (2025/5/4) على أن الحدث تجاوز كونه مجرد ضربة عسكرية إلى كونه رسالة إستراتيجية ذات أبعاد أعمق، في وقت باتت فيه إسرائيل تواجه معارك متعددة الجبهات ضمن حرب استنزاف بدأت تفقد السيطرة عليها. ووفق الباحث في مركز الجزيرة للدراسات الدكتور لقاء مكي، فإن الضربة الحوثية تمثل تحولا إستراتيجيا خطيرا بالنسبة لإسرائيل، إذ تؤكد أن…

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GULF SHORES, Ala. — TCU’s Daniela Alvarez and Tania Moreno came from behind to win the final match Sunday as the second-seeded Horned Frogs wrapped up their first NCAA women’s beach volleyball championship with a 3-2 victory over No. 4 seed Loyola Marymount.TCU (32-5) is the first school other than USC and UCLA to win the title. The Trojans won the first two and the previous four, and the Bruins won two straight in 2018-19.Alvarez and Moreno, who took a year off to play in the Olympics, returned to finish unbeaten in four years as a duo. Alvarez and Moreno…

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Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a sign that the AI jobs crisis “is here, now.” In fact, Merchant spoke to a former Duolingo contractor who said this isn’t even a new policy. The company cut around 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023, and Merchant said there was another round of cuts in October 2024. In both cases, contractors (first translators, then writers) were replaced with AI. Merchant also noted reporting in The Atlantic around the unusually…

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