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“There is no doubt that there is concern about containing the competition from National Future,” said Marco Tarchi, a leading right-wing political scientist. “It all boils down to a sharpening of tone. The issues — security, immigration, identity — remain the same as before.”  During the electoral campaign that brought her to power in 2022, Meloni promised to crack down on illegal migration by putting in place a naval blockade off Italy’s coast. Though that project never ultimately happened, Meloni’s government did open detention hubs in Albania to house migrants while their asylum applications are processed.  Vannacci, who is campaigning…

Despite its ferocious popularity, people still tend to swear off anime entirely. These are usually the people whose reference of the medium pertains to a certain stereotype or to the few seconds of anime they once saw on a computer somewhere in the early 2000s.But Japan has been producing some of the most emotionally resonant and visually audacious storytelling in contemporary media for half a century, and a great deal of it looks nothing at all like the stereotype it holds.So here’s a case for the uninitiated. Start with self-contained films you can knock out in a single evening before…

Canary Capital’s Canary XRP ETF (XRPC) ended the first half of 2026 with $81.6 million less in net assets even after capital-share transactions added a net $82.4 million, showing how falling asset values can overwhelm growth in an exchange-traded fund.The fund’s unaudited Form 10-Q, filed Aug. 7, showed net assets declining from $322.8 million at Dec. 31, 2025, to $241.2 million at June 30, 2026.The accounting bridge is direct: capital-share transactions increased net assets by $82.36 million, but the accounting decrease from operations, primarily unrealized XRP depreciation, reduced them by $164.00 million. The difference was the $81.65 million decline in…

Claim: In 2026, protesters “stormed” a planning and zoning meeting in Indian River County, Florida, to block the construction of a planned Muslim city. Rating: What’s True A group of protesters attended a planning and zoning meeting in Indian River County, Florida, on Jan. 22, 2026, to protest what they believed was the construction of a Muslim city. What’s False No such city was planned. Protesters had falsely connected EPIC City, a development connected to a mosque in Plano, Texas, with Epic Estates, a land banking company that owned and sold undeveloped land in states including Texas and Florida. In…

The world’s seas were hotter last month than in any July on record, scientists have said, as devastating heat struck western Europe.Sea surface temperatures hit record highs for July on the Atlantic coast and western Mediterranean, the EU’s Copernicus climate change service found, with severe marine heatwaves roiling Europe’s seas. Globally, the average sea surface temperature outside the cold polar regions was the highest on record for the month, beating the previous July record set in 2023.Surface air temperatures around the world in July 2026 were marginally cooler than July 2024 – by just 0.01C – leading scientists to consider…

President Trump announced on Sunday that Will Scharf, his staff secretary and a deeply conservative lawyer, would replace David Warrington as White House counsel, one of the few major changes in West Wing personnel since Mr. Trump returned to Washington.Mr. Scharf has embraced some of the most extreme elements of the president’s agenda. But he has also thrown up flares at times over matters that, according to his colleagues, he believed could imperil the presidency. Those included when Mr. Trump and his top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, weighed suspending due process rights for undocumented immigrants early last year.Mr. Trump announced…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! In just a few days, Amazon-owned Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides. This might not seem like a big deal; the company’s custom-built robotaxis are already giving rides to passengers in Las Vegas and San Francisco, after all. And it’s opening up an early rider program in Miami and Austin too.  None of this matters — in a business…

Crypto is finally shaking off the “get rich quick” reputation that has defined the industry for more than a decade according to Nansen founder and CEO Alex Svanevik — and it’s not just because nobody’s getting rich right now.“Crypto assets have kind of been like the ‘toy world’ era of blockchains. And now we’re moving into the real-world era, where you see tokenized stocks, you see people trading indices like the S&P 500 and Hyperliquid,” Svanevik tells Magazine on the Trade Secrets show.“I think the interesting spot that blockchains are in right now is that they are basically giving a…

A man long sought by the authorities in Ireland on suspicion of links to organized crime appeared in a Dublin criminal court on Sunday following his extradition from the United Arab Emirates.The defendant, Daniel Kinahan, has been accused of running a crime ring known as the Kinahan Cartel, which was founded by his father, Christy Kinahan, a convicted drug trafficker.His extradition “sends a clear message that suspected perpetrators of serious and organized crime will find no safe haven from justice, ” Ireland’s justice minister, Jim O’Callaghan, said on social media.Mr. Kinahan was flown from the U.A.E. on Sunday on an…

During the meeting, you can watch the transcription take place nearly in real time if you want, or minimize the window and focus on your meeting. When the meeting is done, you can click the stop button, at which point you will see a transcription. From here, you can ask for an AI summary. You can even provide instructions about which points to focus on.Now, as with all AI tools, there are caveats. These systems aren’t perfect, and they may not have the same priorities as you. I intend to write my own meeting minutes using the transcript as a…