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UPI - Opinion

Voices - South Korea's nuclear sub talks with Washington have gone missing - SEOUL, May 21 (UPI) -- A plan to build Korean nuclear submarines at the Hanwha Philly Shipyard in Pennsylvania appears to be in limbi, with no progress toward an agreement

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Humanities and the crisis of instrumental reason

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Can American democracy survive the Internet age?

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Hurricane forecasts have improved, but federal cuts threaten NOAA

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Dark patterns on the Web are designed to manipulate you -- Website designs that try to change your behavior cross a line when they outright deceive, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher says.

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Fungal disease, climate change threaten Colorado's prized peaches -- In western Colorado, home to the treasured Palisade peach, cytospora canker is one of the most consequential fungal diseases faced by growers.

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Panama's free-enterprise opportunity -- Renewed international debate over the Panama Canal has revealed something deeper than a mere sovereignty dispute.

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The oddest couple: Donnie and Vlad -- Today, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, in the irony of all ironies, are the oddest couple, drawn together by classic strategic blunders and failures.

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Digital power and the new Orwellian temptation -- When Meta announced it would end third-party fact-checking and move toward a community notes model, Brazilian authorities demanded clarification.

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Gerrymandering in the South will likely continue to consider race -- Why political gerrymandering in the South will likely continue to consider voters' race despite a recent Supreme Court ruling.

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How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions -- AI algorithms such as facial recognition systems produce probabilities, not facts, which can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions.

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A Supreme Court ruling failed to curb racial bias in jury selection -- In 1986, the Supreme Court barred prosecutors from striking jurors solely because of race, but the landmark case has failed to stop racial bias.

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Why corrosive capital is dangerous: It distorts the state -- Most discussions of problematic investment focus on economics: an overpriced asset, a weak contract, a procurement process that appears tilted.

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How online hate groups sustain their messages -- Studying the types of messages hate groups spew online helps researchers understand the groups' persistence.

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What about Iran's plutonium? -- If the fear is that Iran can or will build a nuclear weapon, destroying or neutralizing its supply of enriched uranium is only a partial solution.

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China's ocean stewardship narrative faces a credibility test -- China's bid to position itself as a global ocean steward is entering a critical test -- not in conference halls or treaty negotiations, but at sea.

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Central America's energy advantage is under its feet -- Central America holds one of the world's most overlooked clean energy advantages, and much of the needed infrastructure already exists.

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Is it wrong to pay jailed people? Pennsylvania county says 'no' -- Unlike prison, jail confinement is primarily about custody and court processing, not punishment for convicted criminals.

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What's in the price of a gallon of gas? -- The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects nationwide retail gasoline prices to average near $4.30 a gallon for April 2026.

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Uruguay: From good student to regional leader -- Uruguay has spent two decades building a reputation that few countries in the region can match.

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