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Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout

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Gold is meant to be a 'safe haven' in uncertain times. Why is it crashing amid a war?

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A host nation at war with a participant: uncertainty and tension swirl around soccer's World Cup

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The latest world climate report is grim, but it's not the end of the story

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Israel wants to destroy Iran's nuclear program. But should it have nuclear weapons itself?

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War in Iran: Why destroying cultural heritage is such a foolish strategic move in any conflict

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How active have Iran's proxy groups been since the start of the war?

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The West has long characterized Iran's oil as a prize to be claimed

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Targeting of energy facilities turned Iran war into worst-case scenario for Gulf states

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How the US copied a cheap Iranian kamikaze drone and used it to bomb Iran

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Argentina 50 years on from start of dictatorship – is it forgetting the disappeared?

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Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere exposes the business model of misogyny

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Project Hail Mary is packed with hard science. An astrophysicist breaks it down

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How Dracula became a red-hot lover - Stanley Stepanic, University of Virginia

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Climate finance has failed Africa twice over – how to fix it

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How China is betting cheap AI will get the world hooked on its tech

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Why Trump's new pick for Fed chair hit gold and silver markets – for good reasons

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What a US military base lost under Greenland's ice sheet reveals about the island's real strategic importance

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The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

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How trafficked American guns fuel Mexico's cartel violence – podcast

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Three scientists speak about what it's like to have research funding cut by the Trump administration

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Dick Van Dyke credits his longevity to his positive outlook – and research says optimists live longer -- Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

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