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French Open: Coco Gauff advances to third round

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Voices - Drone use poised to soar as FAA homes in on rule change - June 11 (UPI) -- Today, almost anyone who flies a drone must maintain visual contact with it at all times, a practice known as visual line of sight.

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Colombia needs market reforms to turn talent into affordable capital

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How money exchanges between House members shape the balance of power

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Costa Rica's IMF praise comes with a warning

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The Quad's functional evolution: Securing the Indo-Pacific -- The Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi confirms that the grouping is evolving into a practical instrument of regional stabilization.

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Firefighters face higher risk of skin cancer -- nano fabrics can help -- Smoke and ash contain chemicals that can harm wildland firefighters, and not just when they breathe it in.

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Venezuela cannot rebuild democracy without rebuilding its schools -- Venezuela's future will not be rebuilt by oil alone. It will not be rebuilt through elections or diplomatic negotiations, necessary as those are.

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World Cup creates perfect conditions for infectious diseases to spread -- When the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins on June 11, 2026, matches will be played across 16 cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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Bolivia's China lesson is bigger than Bolivia -- Bolivia's turmoil points to a larger question facing Latin America: how should nations engage China without weakening their own institutions?

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Mortgage rates are staying high -- and the Fed can do little about it -- Even though the Fed cut interest rates in 2024 and 2025, mortgage rates have stayed high, frustrating many would-be homebuyers.

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The Panama Manifesto: Venezuela's opposition charts a new course -- On May 28, a document signed in Panama City marked one of the more important strategic shifts in Venezuela's long democratic struggle.

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Algorithms did not invent tribal hatred -- they amplified it -- A study published last November in Science confirmed what many observers of digital politics have long suspected: feed algorithms do not merely reflect human hostility. They can amplify it.

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Paraguay and South America's moment in a fractured world -- War risk, tariff uncertainty, and fiscal stress are forcing companies and investors to rethink where they place capital.

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'Recycled' plastic is being burned -- and causing widespread pollution -- It's easy to think of recycling as the solution to plastic pollution, but the vast majority of plastic waste now ends up in landfills, or worse.

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The West's pendulum is moving again -- When Ecuador's Daniel Noboa won re-election on April 13 with nearly 56% of the vote, it was more than a personal political triumph.

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ChatGPT getting good at diagnosing, doctors remain better at treatment -- The mental shortcuts doctors use in diagnosis aren't that different from how chatbots come up with answers to your health questions.

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Latin America's youth: Discontent, distrust and a turn to the right -- Among Uruguayans between 18 and 29 years old, ideological identification has reached equilibrium between left and right.

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Left and right in the age of algorithms -- Late last year, Chileans went to the polls in one of the most polarized presidential contests since the country's return to democracy.

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BTS and the new order of global youth -- On May 20th, as BTS conducted the American leg of its world tour, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee was holding a confirmation hearing for Michelle Park Steel, the nominee for U.S. Ambassador to South Korea. With sensitive bilateral issues and North Korea policy on the agenda, the atmosphere was tense.

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For young leaders, politics begins where social media ends -- On May 31, Colombian voters will go to the polls to choose a new president from a field spanning the full ideological spectrum.

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Norwegian court denies request from ailing crown princess' son

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Deer using wildlife bridge over highway in California before finished

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On This Day: George Wallace tries to block integration of Univ. of Alabama

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Pentagon back to 'normal operations' after hazmat incident

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U.S.-Iran action continues to escalate on day 2 of back-and-forth attacks

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