Ankita Rao

Washington, D.C., United States

Washington Editor at The Guardian

Washington Editor @GuardianUS. Skeptical optimist. Recovering Floridian. [email protected]

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Direct, Acid-Free Uranium Purification from Solid Analytical Waste by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction with Incinerable N,N-Dialkyl Amide Adducts

Nov 19, 2024 | pubs.acs.org | Shiny S Kumar |Ankita Rao |Sangita Dhara |Avinash S. Kanekar
Direct, Acid-Free Uranium Purification from Solid Analytical Waste by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction with Incinerable N,N-Dialkyl Amide Adducts

Nov 19, 2024 | dx.doi.org | Avinash S. Kanekar |Shiny S Kumar |Ankita Rao |Sangita Dhara
Ro Khanna says he’s not a fan of fellow Democrats calling Republicans ‘weird’

Sep 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ankita Rao

Congressman and Kamala Harris campaign surrogate Ro Khanna said he doesn’t support the trend among his fellow Democrats of calling Republicans “weird” on the election trail. “I’m not, in candor, a fan of calling each other ‘weird’ or names, I don’t think that advanced American democracy,” the California US House representative said during a live event with the Guardian at the Texas Tribune festival on Saturday.
Addressing the Challenge of a Simultaneous Destructive Assay of Plutonium and Uranium: Highly Precise, Robust, Universal, and Reagent-Free Differential Pulse Voltametric Method Development in Biodegradable Methanesulfonic Acid Medium

Aug 31, 2024 | dx.doi.org | Ashutosh Srivastava |Shiny S Kumar |Ayan Ghosh |Ankita Rao
‘Brat, what’s that?’: Harris’s meme fame (sort of) makes its way to the DNC

Aug 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sam Levine |Ankita Rao |David SMith |Ed Pilkington

Six hours and 26 minutes after Joe Biden endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democratic presidential nominee, a three-word tweet upended the presidential race. “Kamala IS brat,” singer Charli xcx tweeted. kamala IS brat— Charli (@charli_xcx) July 22, 2024The British pop star’s tweet wasn’t just referencing her album, brat – already the soundtrack of the summer – but merely adding to the viral cacophony of mashup videos that featured Harris laughing and dancing to songs from her album.
Biden to meet with his family to discuss future amid pressures to step down

Jun 30, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ankita Rao

Joe Biden is set to meet with his family on Sunday to talk about his political future in a meeting that was scheduled before Thursday’s debate. The meeting at Camp David comes as pressures have mounted on Biden after the vast fallout of the debate, in which his halting performance highlighted his vulnerabilities in a close election and invited calls from pundits, media and voters for him to step aside.
Biden Meets With His Family Amid Pressures to Step Down After Debate

Jun 29, 2024 | rsn.org | Richard Luscombe |Ankita Rao

Officials dismiss reports family would discuss president quitting race and say summit was scheduled before debateJoe Biden was meeting with his family on Sunday, a discussion believed to include talk about his political future even though it was already scheduled to take place before his calamitous presidential debate on Thursday with Donald Trump.
American psyche: a new series exploring the angst at the heart of the US election

Jun 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ankita Rao

The vibes, to put it lightly, are off. The 2024 election is proof that the country remains divided, with fault lines so deep that we struggle to collectively define the crises themselves, let alone what has caused them or what would offer solutions. Our current dissonance comes on the tail of past, enduring traumas which did nothing to bring us together. A virus took our loved ones, and we fought over masks. A shooter massacred children in a classroom, and we fought over guns.
Global Digital Assets Digest April 2024

Apr 15, 2024 | lexology.com | Julian Pipolo |Ankita Rao |Gréta Müller |Cornelius Hille |Tobias Bauerfeind |Ashleigh Smithson

Welcome to this month's Global Digital Assets Digest. In the UK, we have news on the consultation concerning the digital securities sandbox, as well as the latest minutes from the CBDC forum. In the EU, ESMA has been busy issuing publications in relation to its various mandates under MiCA. ESMA has also provided an update on the status of the implementation of the EU DLT Pilot Regime.
Skeptical America’s ‘Katespiracies’ fixation goes beyond a reasonable doubt

Mar 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ankita Rao

For a while, the “Katespiracies” were the most fun people have had on the internet in a long time. The whereabouts of the Princess of Wales after her “planned abdominal” surgery and subsequent recovery were not particularly high stakes, and so many reveled in the threads and group chats as the “what ifs” got wilder – the theories both more specific and more incredible at the same time.