Posts by Amelia Frost
iFi iDSD GR 2 Review: A DAC/Amp That Rewards Experimentation
Portable DAC/amps occupy an interesting place in personal audio. They are considerably larger than the tiny USB dongles that can already make a good pair of IEMs sound excellent, yet they are still supposed to offer enough convenience that you would choose one over a full desktop headphone system. The iFi iDSD GR 2 sits…
Read MoreOpposition Leader Machado Has Returned To Venezuela. Her Return Could Destabilize U.S.-Venezuela Relations.
2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent Venezuelan opposition María Corina Machado confirmed her return to the South American country on Sunday after months in exile. “I am here. With you,” Machado wrote on X on Saturday. Edmundo González Urrutia, a close political ally of Machado’s, corroborated the news. Estoy aquí. Con ustedes — María…
Read MoreRepublican Senate Candidate Accuses Opponent Of Links To Muslim Brotherhood And Attacks Press In Fiery Interview
Republican Senate candidate for Michigan and former Congressman Mike Rogers made a series of incendiary accusations about his Democrat opponent Abdul El-Sayed in a contentious interview on Sunday. “The national press … have to twist themselves in knots not to understand Abdul’s relationship with the thinking of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Rogers told NBC’s “Meet the…
Read MoreSerbians Head To Polls To Determine The Political Future Of Longstanding Leader Aleksandar Vučić
Serbians are heading to the polls on Sunday to determine whether or not to elect Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia until his resignation on September 27, as prime minister. Vučić stepped down from the presidential position to be able to run for prime minister. Vučić has long been the dominant figure of Serbian politics,…
Read MoreBrazilians Vote In Crucial Runoff Election Between Lula And Bolsonaro In Key Test For ‘Donroe Doctrine’
Millions of Brazilian voters are heading to the polls on Sunday to choose their future president. The two candidates are incumbent left-wing President Lula of the Brazilian Worker’s Party and the right-wing Liberal Party candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Sunday’s election is a runoff election between the two candidates who…
Read MorePresidents Obama And Trump Held Competing Midterm Rallies On The Same Day. They Clashed On Iran.
At a midterm rally in the Georgian city of Perry on Saturday President Donald Trump praised his administration’s prosecution of the war with Iran and attacked former President Barack Obama’s policy towards the Middle Eastern country. “I terminated one of the worst deals ever made: Barack Hussein Obama’s JCPOA, or as more people call it,…
Read MoreAudi to Build Factory in Georgia, Trump Says
Audi, Volkswagen’s luxury car division, plans to build a factory in Georgia, its first in the United States, President Trump said at a rally in the state on Saturday. A factory in the United States would help Volkswagen and Audi reduce their exposure to Mr. Trump’s 25 percent import tariffs on foreign vehicles and auto…
Read MoreNetanyahu Has Told Israeli Diplomats To Support Argentine Push For Falklands Talks: Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli diplomats to support Buenos Aires‘ calls for diplomatic talks over the future of the Falklands Islands, a self-governing British Overseas Territory which Argentina calls the Malvinas Islands and lays claim to. Argentina and the United Kingdom fought a brief war, which the UK won, over the islands in…
Read MoreIsrael’s Most Uncertain Electoral Story? Ofer Winter’s Party Divides the Final Polls
Some final surveys give Amcha Yisrael four Knesset seats. Others place it below the electoral threshold. The disagreement has turned a small new party into a subject of national attention. With Israel’s October 27 election approaching, the final opinion polls have produced sharply different pictures of Amcha Yisrael, the new right-wing party led by former…
Read MoreTrump Eases Canadian Tariffs In Likely Last-Ditch Attempt To Help Republicans In Tight Midterm Races.
The administration of President Donald Trump announced on Friday that tariffs on certain Canadian products linked to agriculture would be lifted. The move is expected to help Republican candidates before the midterms, especially long-serving Republican Senator for Maine Susan Collins. In order to “continue effectively offsetting the burden to U.S. commerce while better serving the…
Read MoreFrance Braces For Riots On Day After Deadly Paris Shooting, Deploys Tens Of Thousands Of Police Officers
France is expecting another day of large-scale protests and a potential intensification of the violence and looting witnessed at such demonstrations in recent weeks. “We will be uncompromising with the vandals, with the looters, and all those who commit acts of violence … We are not talking about a nice, friendly demonstration, we are ready…
Read MoreTexan Senate Candidate Sues OpenAI Before Midterms, Accuses Altman Of ‘Lying To Users And Harming Texans’
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton revealed on Friday that he would be suing artificial intelligence research company OpenAI, the creator of widely-used chatbot ChatGPT, because of the alleged harm the chatbot is causing Texans. “Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Open AI Global, LLC (“OpenAI”) and its affiliated entities, including its CEO…
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