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Russia trying to meddle in EU elections — report

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Russia is reportedly trying to give euroskeptic parties a boost ahead of the EU parliamentary vote in May. The EU’s eastern neighbor has a track record of interfering in foreign elections.

Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement. This Is How It Works.

Gun rights folks worry about someone knowing if you have a gun or not – but who is worried about Google and police being able to map where you are and have been? ME! Investigators have been tapping into the tech giant’s enormous cache of location information in an effort to solve crimes. Here’s what this database is and what it does.

Ilhan Omar defended by Democrats after Trump uses 9/11 video in attack

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  • Sanders decries ‘disgusting and dangerous’ attacks
  • Buttigieg: ‘Threats against Omar make clear what is at stake’

Democrats including leading candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination have fiercely condemned Donald Trump and other Republicans’ growing efforts to smear the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and urged other party leaders to do the same.

Related: Republicans falsely claim Ilhan Omar denied 9/11 attackers were terrorists

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US’s decision to deny BDS movement cofounder entry sparks backlash

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Omar Barghouti said his visa was revoked for ‘immigration reasons’ as some call it an attack on freedom of expression

A decision by the US government to deny entry to Omar Barghouti, a prominent Palestinian activist and the cofounder of the controversial Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, has drawn accusations that the move is an attack on freedom of expression.

While others spoke out in favor of the ban, Barghouti has condemned the decision as “politically motivated” and part of Israel’s “escalating repression against Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights defenders”.

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The Chemical Brothers: No Geography review – revitalised back-to-skool anthems

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(Virgin EMI)

Three decades after they emerged – along with Underworld, Orbital and the Prodigy – as field-filling dance-music big beasts, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons’s ninth album journeys back to the source. During recording, they built a “studio within a studio”, containing all their old vintage/analogue gear, which had been gathering dust since the 1990s. The idea was presumably that by making music how they used to, they’d rekindle some of the old inspiration and then tweak it for 2019 with the larger studio’s modern tech. Which is pretty much how No Geography sounds.

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