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Until now, the phrase crypto winter meant that cryptocurrency traders were facing hard times: a period of tumbling and depressed...

California’s new minimum-wage law hadn’t even gone into effect before it was declared a disaster. Business groups and Republican politicians...

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Joe Biden has faded from national leadership as Donald Trump and his allies, including Elon Musk, act as though they’re...

NASA, ESA, STScI / AURADay 21 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: inside a chaotic nebula. Sharpless 2-106 is...

Dune: Prophecy opens with a thesis statement. It comes as the Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen (played by Olivia Williams), a...

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For many years, Venezuelans understood instinctively what was meant when someone invoked la situación in conversation. The rich started leaving...

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The twinkling of lit-up trees and festive displays in store windows have come to mean two things: The holidays are...