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December 9, 2025
Authors triumph in copyright case against AI company
A federal judge on Thursday approved a US$1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to…
December 9, 2025
Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant sought by the US since 1979, dies in Cuba
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has…
December 9, 2025
UN blacklists another 68 companies over Israeli settlements
The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli…
December 9, 2025
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin | I believe in G-d—or do I trust Him?
On all American coins and paper currency, the country’s national motto of “In G-d We Trust” is famously written. As we approach Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, taking place Sept 22-24, I want to…
December 9, 2025
Fisherman drowns in Treasure Beach
The Pedro Plains police in St Elizabeth have launched an investigation into the death of a fisherman who drowned in the parish on Thursday. He has been identified as 29-year-old Damian Davis of…
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December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Change is in the air
At 20 Belmont Road and a stone’s throw (well, maybe two throws) away, at 89 Old Hope Road, winds of change are blowing. JLP’s focus on change was signalled by dissolution of an ill-advised Legal and…
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December 9, 2025
Garth Minott | A budget is a moral document
Budgets are moral documents. This is the title of an article by Catholic priest Fr. Travis Russell. A criminal justice policy advisor for the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology in the…
December 9, 2025
FIFA sanctions Malaysia for fielding foreign-born players with fake documents
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA has sanctioned the Football Association of Malaysia after finding documents submitted to naturalise seven foreign-born players were doctored. The players — Gabriel Felipe Arrocha,…
December 9, 2025
Dennis Minott | Harmful buffoonery
Behind the neat rows of school timetables lies harmful buffoonery, where pools-timetabling locks children’s dreams into cages and wastes national talent.