Apple said Monday that Tim Cook will step down as chief executive, ending a tenure in which he led the company through the years after Steve Jobs and oversaw its rise to a $4 trillion valuation.
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A gunman opened fire Monday at the Teotihuacán pyramids, a tourist site about an hour north of Mexico City, killing a Canadian tourist and injuring six others, according to Mexican authorities.
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JUST IN: A Manhattan federal jury found Wednesday that Live Nation and Ticketmaster held a harmful monopoly over major concert venues, siding with more than 30 states that said the company used its size to block competition in ticketing and live events.
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President Trump reposted an apparently AI-generated image on Truth Social on Wednesday showing Jesus embracing him, days after deleting another post that drew backlash over comparisons between himself and Jesus. ground.news/article/7294...
Allbirds said Wednesday it is leaving the shoe business and shifting to artificial intelligence compute, sending its stock up more than 300%.
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A federal appeals court has struck down the 158-year-old U.S. ban on home distilling, ruling that Congress cannot justify the prohibition as a tax measure.
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Lebanon and Israel held their first direct talks in more than 30 years on Tuesday amid a six week war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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A New York judge dismissed PETA’s lawsuit against the American Kennel Club over alleged unhealthy breed standards for French bulldogs, bulldogs, Chinese shar-peis, dachshunds and pugs.
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President Donald Trump appears to have deleted a Truth Social image that showed him as Jesus Christ healing sick people, after the post drew pushback from conservative Christian allies. ground.news/article/6fa5...
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would begin blocking “any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz” after U.S.-Iran talks ended Sunday without a deal.
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The request came after Israel ended the state of emergency tied to its war with Iran following Wednesday’s ceasefire announcement.
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Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, said Friday that talks cannot move forward until two earlier commitments are carried out: a ceasefire in Lebanon and the release of Iran’s blocked assets.
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A new Pew Research Center survey found 60% of all American adults had an unfavorable opinion of Israel, compared with 53% a year earlier.
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🇪🇸 Spain will reopen its embassy in Tehran, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said Thursday.
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An Ohio man is believed to be the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after prosecutors said he used deepfake sexually explicit images to harass six women and their families.
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Less than a day after a ceasefire was announced, Iran halted oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Israel launched its largest coordinated strike in Lebanon since the war began, and Kuwait and the UAE reported Iranian drone and missile attacks.
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BREAKING: Trump says the U.S. has accepted a two-week ceasefire with Iran under a proposal put forward by Pakistan. ground.news/article/81c1...
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump and Iran’s government to accept a two-week ceasefire to allow time for negotiations.
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Gallup said this was the first time since President Donald Trump’s first term — and only the third time in roughly 20 years, also including part of the Bush years — that China led the U.S. in the poll. 
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Researchers have engineered tobacco plants to produce psilocybin, DMT, bufotenin, 5-methoxy-DMT and a psilocybin precursor, according to a study published in Science Advances.
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President Donald Trump said he is considering pulling the US out of NATO, blaming allies for not backing Washington during the war with Iran.
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President Donald Trump removed Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, a White House official said, after frustration inside the administration over her performance.
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They admitted in 2020 to plotting to steal trade secrets tied to pediatric medical treatment for financial gain.
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Zhou and Chen were researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. They came to the United States on H-1B visas in 2007 and 2008 and became citizens nine years later.
The scans suggest some anatomy teaching is wrong and could improve pelvic and reconstructive surgery.
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Researchers at Amsterdam UMC used high-energy X-rays to create the first 3D map of clitoral nerves from two donated female pelvises, nearly 30 years after similar mapping of the penis.
A federal judge has permanently blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a directive to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to assemble state-by-state lists of verified eligible voters.
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A Kentucky family says it turned down a $26 million offer to sell part of its farmland for a proposed data center tied to an unnamed Fortune 100 artificial intelligence company.
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