Year: 2025

Opinion | Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man

(Here it should be said that a few years earlier, in 1990, Trump praised the Chinese government for its handling…

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Austria Mourns After a Deadly School Shooting

Even though school is out for at least a week, students kept coming on Wednesday morning, the day after a…

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Musk Expresses ‘Regret’ Over His Criticisms of Trump

Elon Musk said in a social media post early Wednesday that he regretted some of his posts and comments about…

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Did Kylie Jenner Get Plastic Surgery? She Did, and She’ll Tell You Exactly How.

In Ovid’s “Pygmalion” an artist creates an ivory sculpture of a woman so beautiful that he falls in love with…

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Yosemite Bans Large Flags From El Capitan, Criminalizing Protests

It is one of America’s most majestic and recognizable landmarks, having beckoned Teddy Roosevelt, Ansel Adams and, more recently, protesters.…

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Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names

President Trump, during a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., said on Tuesday that he would restore the names of all…

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U.S. Court Agrees to Keep Trump Tariffs Intact as Appeal Gets Underway

A federal appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow President Trump to maintain many of his tariffs on China and…

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John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online

John L. Young, who used his experience as a computer-savvy architect to help build Cryptome, a vast library of sensitive…

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Germany Embraces LNG as It Weans Itself Off Russian Gas

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Germany realized that its dependency on natural gas piped from Russia had endangered its…

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Party Politics Is Said to Have Played a Role in Kennedy’s Firing of Vaccine Advisers

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to make decisions rooted in “gold-standard science,” fired an entire committee…

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