Trump pauses enforcement, orders review of foreign corruption act
President Donald Trump has ordered a pause and review of a law that has defined the activities of U.S. business overseas for nearly five decades,...
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How Climate Change Accelerated the LA Fires
The fires show how unprepared we are for life on a hotter planet
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This Election, Black Women Showed How Much They Love This Country. Will It Ever Love Them Back?
We overwhelmingly cast our votes for the unfinished dream of democracy. Guess we’re mostly alone in that commitment.
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How America Invented the Red State
According to conventional wisdom, the last quarter century of elections has proved that most of the country leans conservative. It all started with a...
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Macklemore's 'F-cked Up' Calls Out Societal Ills
Proceeds from his latest protest song will go to a UN agency providing relief to Palestinian refugees.
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DOGE cuts $900M from agency tracking US students' progress
A federal research agency that tracks the progress of America's students is to lose $900 million in funding after Elon Musk's Department of...
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New US Rule Aims to Block China’s Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World
The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations.
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Remembering David Lodge: Author, Agnostic, and Consummate Chameleon
By the time the novelist David Lodge died on January 1 at the age of 89, the obituaries had long been written, gathering dust and occasional updates...
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Biden’s Failing Mind Might Explain His Incoherent Gaza Policy
From the beginning, something has been off about President Joe Biden’s approach to the October 7 Hamas attack and Israel’s genocidal invasion of...
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RFK Jr. Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services had been in doubt — but the GOP once again caved to Trump
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