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Speed Interviewing the Fastest Drivers in the World
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Trump wants a world safe for autocracy
Europe will have to defend liberal democracy without American supportFinancial Times - 4d -
The Baldwins review – Alec’s dreadful reality show is a new low for TV
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Can Moldova – population 2.4m – show the world how to stand up to Putin?
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Trump officials want to ban junk food from SNAP. Past efforts show it's not easy to do
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Shakira resumes world tour with concert in Peru after canceling show due to illness
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Sunday shows preview: Trump workforce cuts, Ukraine-Russia rhetoric have world on edge
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Welcome back Billy McFarland and a new Fyre festival. Shows you can’t keep a good fantasist down
Fresh out of jail, does it matter that his 2017 festival was one of the biggest social-media-driven deceptions of our time? Not a bit. “Since 2016, Fyre has been the most talked about festival in ...The Guardian - 1d -
The Top 6 Hidden Fees Fleecing Small Businesses
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ChatGPT-generated op-eds appeared in mainstream Latin American media outlets
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Review: Indie survivor Ed Burns returns with the bland 'Millers in Marriage'
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Rise Of The Golden Idol DLC Release Date May Be Hidden In Plain Sight
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Op-ed: Tesla's stock slump is a glimpse of the future of the multinational corporation, and it's not good
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Democrat in Fox News op-ed: Trump 'making America expensive again'
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Trump’s proposed 'gold card' visa comes with a hidden tax break for the wealthy
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Extended interview: "Survivor" host and showrunner Jeff Probst
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Baier to interview Zelensky after Trump meeting
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Europe’s New Reality: Trump May Not Quit NATO, but He’s Already Undercutting It
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Pardoned for Jan. 6, She Came Home to a New Reality
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Chris Mason: PM upends Labour manifesto to confront Europe's new reality
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At Lucid, key-person risk is a ‘reality’ investors have yet to understand
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Trump continues to invent his own reality. Will Americans go along?
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(Out)field of dreams? Altuve, Astros adapt to new reality
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How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)
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Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i (14 Inch, Gen 10) Review: Hidden Webcam
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Bezos says Washington Post won't publish op-eds that oppose 'free markets and personal liberties'
Billionaire Jeff Bezos is retooling The Washington Post's opinion section to focus on "free markets and personal liberties," saying the newspaper he owns will no longer publish op-eds that are not ...The Hill - 1d -
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What gaming can learn from the past | Laura Naviaux Sturr interview
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