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King has ‘profound concern’ over Andrew claims – and Buckingham Palace ‘ready to support’ police if contacted | UK News

King has ‘profound concern’ over Andrew claims – and Buckingham Palace ‘ready to support’ police if contacted | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

Buckingham Palace says it will support police if contacted over allegations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The palace also said King Charles had “profound concern” over claims about his brother, in a statement released following revelations in the Epstein files. Thames Valley Police has said it is assessing claims that Andrew shared confidential documents with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, while the former duke served as UK trade envoy. Andrew denies any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. Follow latest updates on the Epstein files Image: File pic: AP A palace spokesperson said: “The King has made clear, in words and through unprecedented actions, his profound concern at allegations which continue to come to light in respect of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s conduct. “While the specific claims in question are for Mr Mountbatten-Windsor to address, if we are approached by Thames Valley Police we stand ready to support them as you would expect. “As was previously stated, Their Majesties’ thoughts and sympathies have been, and remain with, the victims of any and all forms of abuse.” You need …

SpaceX Gives Million Prize to Literal Nazi Who Has Bragged About His Profound Racism

SpaceX Gives $1 Million Prize to Literal Nazi Who Has Bragged About His Profound Racism

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Allison Robbert / AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk’s X — formerly known as Twitter and newly acquired by SpaceX — says it will give a million bucks to a proudly self-proclaimed Nazi. On Tuesday, the social media site and Grok-run asylum announced the winners of its “$1M Article Contest,” with the grand prize going to a user named Beaver with the handle @beaverd. As many quickly noticed, that user happens to be an out-and-out white supremacist with over 100,000 followers, who Musk has interacted with in the past. Don’t just take our word for it. In one tweet, Beaver — who describes himself as “God’s most r*tarded soldier” — expressed his regret that Trump wasn’t even more right wing, writing that he wished the US president “was literally Hitler.” One of his favorite groups to rail against are Somalis — the right’s bugbear du jour — accusing them of having lower IQ than wild animals. He also runs a website that supposedly tracks government spending and fraud …

The profound life lesson at the heart of chaos theory

The profound life lesson at the heart of chaos theory

Published by Jenni Sidey

Excerpted from Think Like a Mathematician: Simple Tools for Complex Everyday Problems by Junaid Mubeen. Published by Pegasus Books. Copyright © 2026. All rights reserved. The difficulty in predicting what happens in chaotic systems comes from how minute differences in inputs can become dramatic changes to the output, in what’s known as sensitivity to initial conditions. This is not an issue in classical Newtonian physics, where the regular movement of objects — planetary orbits, swinging pendulums, rolling balls — are easily predicted, even allowing for small changes to inputs. Sensitivity to initial conditions is also known more commonly as the “butterfly effect,” which suggests the extreme possibility that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazonian jungle might cause a storm to rage across Europe some weeks later. I’m reminded of the idea every time I play a game of pool. What ostensibly appears to be a classical system — balls whizzing around the table — is more akin to a chaotic one. On rare occasions, my break-off shot is near-perfect, yet it is utterly …

Vietnam harbors a profound strategic distrust of the US

Vietnam harbors a profound strategic distrust of the US

Published by Sam Flores

To Lam, general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, in New York, September 25, 2024. ELIZABETH FRANTZ/REUTERS Communist Vietnam has mastered the art of managing Donald Trump. To win over the American president, Hanoi has rolled out the red carpet for a Trump-branded golf project. The country has also joined, without much hesitation, his highly controversial Board of Peace. This accommodating attitude is primarily due to economic realities: Vietnam has the third-largest trade deficit with the United States, behind China and Mexico. It has fought to secure a favorable trade agreement ahead of its neighbors. Nonetheless, deep distrust remains: Hanoi views the US as a fundamentally unpredictable, even hostile, actor. This revelation comes from a classified Vietnamese military document from August 2024 that was revealed by the US-based NGO Project88, which specializes in human rights issues in Vietnam. The document describes US and allied tactics to invade Vietnam by sea; it notably predates Trump’s second term, as well as the abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro by the American military on January 3. The first …

Explaining the Profound, Cosmic Infidelity in Camus’s “Adulterous Woman”

Explaining the Profound, Cosmic Infidelity in Camus’s “Adulterous Woman”

Published by Sam Flores

Published: Dec 16, 2025written by Simon Lea, PhD Philosophy   The ending of Camus’s story, The Adulterous Woman, has puzzled many readers. During a trip neither of the pair is enjoying, Janine, Marcel’s middle-aged wife, sneaks away one night from their hotel room. Climbing on the roof of an Algerian fort, she enters into a mystical and erotic encounter with the universe. Afterward, she returns to her room and slips back beside her sleeping husband. Here, we look at why Camus considers this solitary act “adultery” and how it relates to French-Arab tensions in 1950s Algeria.   The Adulterous Woman and Exile and the Kingdom First Edition of Exile and the Kingdom signed by the author, 1957. Source: Libraire Koegui   The Adulterous Woman is a short story published by Albert Camus in 1957. It is the first story in a collection titled Exile and the Kingdom. These stories were written after Camus went through a period of intense personal turmoil. Earlier in the decade, he published The Rebel, a book-length essay on the history …