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The State Department is pulling back from commenting on or criticizing elections overseas unless there is a clear and ...

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Wednesday's magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...

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OpenAI should continue to be controlled by a nonprofit because the artificial intelligence technology it is developing is ...

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Second-generation descendants of Japanese nationals, who were left behind in the Philippines and have been stateless since ...