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U.S. fast-tracks $8 billion in arms sales to Middle East partners
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At Kyiv drone school, young Ukrainians try to shape how they will fight
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Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Is Going All-In On Art With a New Residency
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Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch is approved by key commission
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New US tariffs: Why Trump is targeting 60 trade partners over forced labor
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Millions of Americans are going to lose health insurance or Medicaid
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Chile becomes the first country in the Americas to be verified by WHO for the elimination of leprosy
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Did George Clooney Help Fund KKK, Unite the Right?
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Trump Criticizes Cost of Watching NFL Games as DoJ Investigates
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Democrat Khanna to Rally with Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner
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Ohio Democrat Amy Acton Posed as Moderate Despite Grants to Left-Wing Groups
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Stanford Economist Erik Brynjolfsson’s Mindful Take on A.I.’s Impact
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Mark Zuckerberg Signals Leaner Future as Meta Doubles Down on A.I.
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Non-Tech CEOs’ Pivots to A.I. Follow a Familiar Wall Street Script
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How Writer CEO May Habib Transforms Language Tech Into Enterprise A.I.
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Russell Brand Won’t Condemn Oct. 7 Attacks
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OpenAI and Anthropic CFOs Are Racing For Compute Power
Both about two years into their jobs, Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao (left) and OpenAI’s Sarah Friar are locked in a high-stakes race to secure compute […]
Iran Butters Up China as Trump Flies to Beijing
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DNC autopsy is a flop — but Democrats think they know what they did wrong last time
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The Download: Musk v. Altman week 3, and Trump’s tech trading
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‘Ruthless’: Kimmel Joke Normalizes Trump Assassination Attempts
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Padres Prospect Self-Deports to Mexico After Pleading Guilty to Human Smuggling
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Another Blowout Jobs Month: U.S. Economy Added 115,000 Jobs April, 2x As Many As Expected
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Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering
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Michael Botta’s Sesame Bets on Cash-Pay Health Care Without Insurance
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Pro-Trump candidate takes lead in Colombia’s presidential race with promise of crime crackdown
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‘Man Who Wasn’t There’: Coen Bros’ Overlooked Noir Masterpiece
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Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models
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Farage’s Reform UK Lays Out Plans to Dismantle British Deep State
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Why ibogaine is MAGA’s favorite psychedelic
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GOP CA Governor Hopeful Steve Hilton Says He Won’t Freeze Out ICE
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When Late-Night Rivals Fought Like Cats and Dogs
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Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 21 May 2026
Countries support development of a post-2030 strategy to end tuberculosis The Assembly, today, endorsed a decision requesting the Director-General to develop a post-2030 tuberculosis (TB) strategy, in […]
Glycol vapors could stop respiratory pandemics
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SM Offices Reaches Full Occupancy at Clark Tech Hub as 11th Tower Breaks Ground
SM Offices reaches full occupancy at Clark Tech Hub, with the 11th tower currently under construction. SM Offices, the dedicated commercial leasing division of SM […]
Suspect dead after opening fire near White House security checkpoint, Secret Service says
A person who opened fire Saturday on a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the U.S. Secret […]
5 Hard Lessons from ‘Animal Farm’ Debacle
Andy Serkis’ “Animal Farm” did the impossible. The “new” take on the George Orwell classic alienated just about everyone, and it somehow united audiences in […]
The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season
It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, […]
Memphis gang members sentenced to 50 years for murder-for-hire killing
Two high-ranking members of the Unknown Vice Lords, a violent Memphis street gang also known as The Ghost Mob, were each sentenced to 50 years […]
Met Gala Enters Its Billionaire Era With Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez
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Trump Plans to Attend Knicks NBA Finals Games: ‘I Think I’ll be Going’
President Donald Trump shared that he was invited to attend a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, as the Knicks compete in the […]