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I drove BYD’s Seal electric car and Elon Musk may be grateful you can’t buy one in the US
Transportation I drove BYD's Seal electric car and Elon Musk may be grateful you can't buy one in the US ... More »
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March 29th, 2024
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Opinion: Why the proposed TikTok ban isn’t what we need
The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill this month threatening to ban TikTok unless its parent company ByteDance sells the app. It may take the Senate months to address the legislation, which faces some opposition, so a ban is not imminent. But t... More »
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News Analysis: Supreme Court has right and far-right wings. Their justices might not be those you’d guess
WASHINGTON — At the U.S. Supreme Court these days, judicial liberals don’t have much clout. The real fights mostly take place between the court’s far-right and its more traditional conservatives.Tuesday’s argument over abortion pills provided a perfect exampl... More »
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AI companies are courting Hollywood. Do they come in peace?
Artificial intelligence is coming to Hollywood — but is Hollywood ready for it? OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is meeting with entertainment industry players, including executives at talent agencies and film studios, to demonstrate and explain its latest ... More »
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Cesar Chavez’s family wants nothing to do with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign
During the 1980 presidential primaries, Fernando Chavez traveled for months with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as they worked on the presidential campaign of his uncle Sen. Ted Kennedy. In living room after living room, Chavez said, he saw some combination of three fr... More »
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Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
Indigenous communities in Bolivia have objected to Colombia’s plans to recover the remains of an 18th-century galleon believed to be carrying gold, silver and emeralds worth billions, calling on Spain and Unesco to step in and halt the project.Colombia hopes t... More »
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Extortionate Easter eggs and shrinking sweets: fears grow of a ‘chocolate meltdown’
Around the world this holiday weekend, people will consume hundreds of millions of Easter eggs and bunnies, as part of an annual chocolate intake that can exceed 8kg (18lb) for every person in the UK, or 5kg in the US and Europe. But a global shortage of cacao... More »
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3 presidents, celebrity performances and protester interruptions at Biden’s $25M fundraiser
President Joe Biden was joined Thursday by two of his Democratic predecessors for a star-studded fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall that his campaign said brought in more than $26 million.Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton participated in the eve... More »
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Woman Who Received 5-Year Sentence in Voter Fraud Case Is Acquitted
A Texas appeals court reversed its earlier opinion that had upheld the conviction of Crystal Mason, who was found guilty of illegally casting a provisional ballot in 2016, even though she claimed she hadn’t known she was ineligible to vote.In a case that has p... More »