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Movie review: 'Normal' continues fun Bob Odenkirk action streak

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Australian man becomes world's oldest grandfather

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Trump nominates former Rep. Michelle Park Steel as U.S. ambassador to S. Korea

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Google celebrates World Quantum Day with Doodle

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South Korea boosts military fuel readiness amid energy risks

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Voices - 1 in 3 U.S. households struggle to pay energy bills - Concerns about being able to afford electricity and other fuel are elevated since the beginning of the Iran war -- but they didn't start there.

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The line that wasn't there: AIS mapping and East China Sea fisheries

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With the Iran cease-fire, China may benefit most from a return to war

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South America's transcontinental highway is almost complete -- almost

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Into the inferno: Will Trump decimate Iran? -- Let's assume Trump intends to carry out what he has threatened with Iran. The consequences, domestically and internationally, will be catastrophic.

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Hormuz closure likely to lead to major grocery price hikes -- The global energy crisis caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is only the beginning of the economic cost of the war with Iran.

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Employing the American uncontrolled narrative for national security -- The U.S. cannot win a contest of narratives by imitating systems that control speech. It wins by being what it claims to be and by being transparent.

4 days ago

Dust from California's shrinking Salton Sea is harming lung growth -- The Salton Sea in California is shrinking and releasing toxic dust from its lake bed that is harming the lung growth of children, researchers found.

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What U.S. 'Greater North America' concept could mean for Costa Rica -- A new geopolitical concept, "Greater North America," is beginning to take shape in Washington, and Costa Rica should pay attention to it.

6 days ago

U.S. verdict may mark turning point in digital accountability -- A verdict delivered in Los Angeles could matter far beyond the United States because it points toward a new approach to digital accountability.

7 days ago

Latin America can lower its cost of capital -- but only with reforms -- Latin America's high financing costs are not a fixed condition. They arise from policy choices and persistent structural weaknesses.

8 days ago

Chile's new government walks tightrope between Washington and Beijing -- When Chilean Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna posted a photograph on social media last month, the message was hard to miss.

8 days ago

Does China's Belt and Road need an educational pivot? -- China's overseas investment machine -- once the financial engine of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) -- is beginning to lose momentum.

11 days ago

Whatever happened to the Indo-Pacific region? -- As the U.S. war in Iran enters its second month has the Indo-Pacific region sunk with little trace in terms of American policy priorities?

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How polling failures and other factors led to prediction markets -- A University of North Carolina researcher explains how polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock led to prediction markets.

12 days ago

When citizens stop thinking: stupidity as a political force -- Why do leaders, and the societies that follow them, so often misjudge reality so badly? And why does that failure keep recurring, across generations?

13 days ago

NASA intends to build a base on the moon by the 2030s -- here's why -- NASA wants to build a base on the moon by the 2030s, a University of Mississippi professor explains how and why it wants a long‑term lunar presence.

13 days ago

American courts are rewriting the rules for big tech and children -- Within 48 hours, the legal landscape governing social media and children shifted in ways that will take years to fully understand and verify.

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Latin America can lower its cost of capital by 2030 -- Latin America's future growth will depend not only on politics or commodity prices, but on something less visible: the cost of capital.

14 days ago

Costa Rica's break with Cuba points to a broader foreign policy shift -- Costa Rica's decision to downgrade relations with Cuba is more than a bilateral dispute -- it also reflects a broader shift among some governments.

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