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At least 6 reported killed
during widening protests in Iran
sparked by ailing economy
https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-economy-israel-us-nuclear-8533eacbc3c502ccc5f5339ae4384399

At least 6 reportedly killed as Iran protests widen
Protests over Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural areas, with at least three people killed. Authorities reported the fatalities on Wednesday and Thursday in cities home to Iran’s Lur ethnic group. The demonstrations are the largest since 2022 but haven't reached the intensity of those sparked by Mahsa Amini's death. In Lordegan, videos showed gunfire and debris on the streets. Iran's government media hasn't reported on the violence there. The protests began due to economic pressu…

Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in October 2025, making its co-founders billionaires (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/dealb…

Kalshi, a Prediction Market, Raises $1 Billion in New Round
The fund-raising effort, the company’s third this year, values it at $11 billion, and comes amid stiff competition in the increasingly popular industry.

"Launching the Agent Protocols Tech Tree"
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/02/23/agent-protocols-tech-tree/
"APTT is a visual, videogame-style tech tree of the evolving protocols supporting AI agents."

„Qatar halts natural gas production after Iranian attacks“
Oh, wie gut, dass wir eine Gasministerin statt einer Wirtschafstministerin haben und das unsere Gasspeicher ziemlich leer sind …
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2

Qatar halts natural gas production after Iranian attacks
Qatar is halting liquid natural gas (LNG) production because of Iranian attacks on key facilities.

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

🦋 The paradox of Bangladesh’s democratic rebirth: A critical analysis of the 2026 election’s promise and pitfalls
https://globalvoices.org/2026/02/14/the-paradox-of-bangladeshs-democratic-rebirt…

The paradox of Bangladesh’s democratic rebirth: A critical analysis of the 2026 election’s promise and pitfalls
With 127.7 million registered voters—including 64.8 million men, 62.9 million women, and 1,234 third-gender voters—the 13th National Parliamentary Election of Bangladesh represented one of the largest democratic exercises globally for 2026.

The largest #protests in #Iran for three years entered a fifth day on Thursday
amid reports of deadly clashes between protesters and security forces,
with state-affiliated media confirming at least two people had been #killed.…

CNN partners with Kalshi to use the company's real-time prediction data in its reporting, for on-air data tickers, fact-checking, and more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/cnn-kalshi-prediction-market-data

Exclusive: CNN strikes prediction data partnership with Kalshi
The collaboration marks the first major news partnership for Kalshi.

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as
Border Patrol agent #Jesus #Ochoa
and Customs and Border Protection officer #Raymundo

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded US Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city
after federal agents launched teargas at a crowd of demonstrators
– including young children
– outside an ICE facility
during a weekend protest that he and others characterized as peaceful.
Witnesses said agents deployed teargas, pepper balls and rubber bullets
as thousands of marchers arrived at the South Waterfront facility on Saturday.
Erin Hoover Barnet…