The Pentagon is making a direct $400 million investment in US rare earths producer MP Materials, underscoring the Trump administration’s urgent push to reduce reliance on China for critical minerals and strengthen
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The US Department of State is preparing to lay off hundreds of US-based employees in the coming days, following a Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration’s plan for widespread federal job
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In a characteristically unfiltered and provocative interview with El País, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek opens the floodgates on his personal misanthropy, political despair, and philosophical radicalism, delivering a stream of consciousness that
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by Yi Xin In early June 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense initiated a comprehensive review of the AUKUS submarine deal. Led by Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby, the review questions whether
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In a harrowing exposé by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands accused of orchestrating mass violence against Palestinians in a ruthless bid to maintain political control. Published
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted full approval for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, for children aged 6 months to 11 years who are considered at increased risk of severe
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The 17th BRICS Summit, to be held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday and Monday, comes at a time of growing global volatility. Amid mounting geopolitical tensions and
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The deep and often underexamined alliance between Israel and the United Kingdom has roots that stretch back centuries, long before the founding of the modern Israeli state. Driven by a blend of
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Between 1949 and 1950, the Israeli government launched Operation Magic Carpet, also known as “On Wings of Eagles,” a dramatic airlift that brought nearly 49,000 Yemeni Jews to the newly established state
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Emerging reports suggest that the United States and Israel are covertly supporting a controversial plan to divide Lebanon into three separate entities — a radical redrawing of borders that would not only
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In a dramatic development that could reshape the future of American space exploration, at least 2,145 senior-ranking employees at NASA are preparing to exit the agency as part of a sweeping effort
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The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has welcomed the recent reduction in the tariff rate on Sri Lankan exports to the United States, calling it a “constructive and important first step” toward enhancing
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OpenAI’s latest large language model, o3, has emerged as the top-performing AI system for answering scientific questions, according to a newly launched benchmarking platform called SciArena, as reported by Nature. Developed by
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Scientists have sequenced proteins from fossils over 20 million years old, dramatically extending the molecular fossil record—and potentially opening the door to studying dinosaurs at the molecular level. As reported by Nature,
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A sweeping new genomic study published in Nature has uncovered compelling evidence that many of the most notorious infectious diseases—such as plague and leprosy—made the leap to humans only after ancient communities
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