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The new Google Pixel phone is displayed next to a Google Home smart speaker in 2016 after a product event in San Francisco. (Eric Risberg/Associated Press)

Why it Matters that Google Home Can Now Identify You by Voice

by Hayley Tsukayama | May 2, 2017 | Technology

Washington – Smart home hubs are continuing to evolve, and Google just added a pretty important feature to its own hub, the Google Home. Previously, Home linked up only to the account of whoever set it up first. Now, the device will be able to handle multiple...

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France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen and the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders. (AFP)

Populism Has Not ‘Peaked’ in Europe. The Fight Continues.

by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson | May 2, 2017 | Opinion

Dark clouds have been hovering over Europeans who believe in an integrated, tolerant and open Continent. First came Britain’s vote to leave the European Union in June, followed by Donald J. Trump’s election. Nationalists and right-wing populists seemed to be on the...

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Sunderland manager David Moyes. (AFP)

David Moyes’ Old-School Ways Helped Drag Ailing Sunderland over the Edge

by Louise Taylor | May 2, 2017 | Sports

London – Within hours of becoming Sunderland’s manager last July David Moyes boarded a privately chartered plane. He and the team were bound for a French training camp but an ominous grinding noise from the engines and slightly tense looks exchanged among the...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaking at a rally marking the 12th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, November 10, 2016. (AFP)

If Trump has a Strategy on Israeli-Palestinian Peace, it’s Remaining a Secret

by Josh Rogin | May 2, 2017 | Opinion

If President Trump has a real strategy to make progress on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, it’s such a tightly held secret that even the parties involved don’t seem to know what it is. When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visits the White House this week,...

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Eintracht Frankfurt’s Marco Russ. (Getty Images)

A Year in the Life of Marco Russ: a Failed Drugs Test, Cancer and a Hero’s Return

by Jason Humphreys | May 2, 2017 | Sports

Berlin – Every penalty shootout creates heroes and villains. The villain is often left standing on the penalty spot, looking emptily into a floodlit sky, as the hero runs to his team-mates with his shirt halfway over his head and eyes closed in ecstasy....