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World

Where ISIS is still active today

Yesterday at 23:20 PM, via NPR

The Islamic State lost its territorial stronghold in the Middle East years ago, but its influence didn’t disappear. NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Aaron Zelin about how ISIS looks now.

Business

South Africa kissed these 28 cars goodbye

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via BusinessTech

South Africa has said goodbye to 28 cars over the past two years, as carmakers reassessed their local lineups and global strategies.

Sport

Davies at the double for Scarlets in Cardiff

Yesterday at 23:58 PM, via BBC News

A try double from scrum-half Gareth Davies allowed Scarlets to continue their Arms Park dominance against Cardiff in the United Rugby Championship (URC) Welsh derby.

Sport

Leinster leave it late to beat Ulster in URC derby

Yesterday at 23:48 PM, via BBC News

Champions Leinster overturn a 10-point half-time deficit to beat Ulster 24-20 at the Aviva Stadium in the first of the festive interprovincial derbies in the United Rugby Championship.

Education

Scott C. Beardsley Named University of Virginia’s New President

Yesterday at 22:26 PM, via New York Times

The selection of Scott Beardsley by the G.O.P.-appointed board comes after the previous president resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. A new Democratic-appointed board could try to overturn the choice.

Science/Tech

YouTuber’s Livestream Appears On White House Website

Today at 00:20 AM, via Slashdot

The White House says it’s investigating how a personal-finance YouTuber’s livestream briefly appeared on the White House’s official live video page. The creator says he has no idea how his video ended up there. The Associated Press reports: The livestream appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president...

Science/Tech

Riot Games Is Making an Anti-Cheat Change That Could Be Rough On Older PCs

Yesterday at 23:40 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we’ve written before, this is software that runs with more elevated privileges than most other apps and games you run on your PC, allowing it to load in earlier and detect advanced methods of cheating. More...

Science/Tech

The DOJ’s Jeffrey Epstein Files Are Here

Yesterday at 23:21 PM, via Wired

Forced by an act of Congress, the Justice Department has released “hundreds of thousands” of pages of documents related to Epstein—but not everything, as is required by law.

Health

Trump Announces Pricing Deals With Nine Drugmakers

Yesterday at 21:28 PM, via New York Times

The companies agreed to sell most of their drugs to Medicaid at the prices they charge in European countries and to sell drugs directly to consumers through a planned TrumpRx website.

Health

Why the New Cannabis Classification Matters

Yesterday at 12:04 PM, via New York Times

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients.