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Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on phones and other tech outside the…
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This California bill will require transparency from AI companies. But will it actually prevent major disasters?
When it comes to AI, as California goes, so goes the nation. The biggest state in the US by population is also the central hub…
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The dissent that would’ve criminalized flag burning
In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. Please note that the views of…
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6 Guatemalans in US illegally arrested during investigation for deadly hit-and-run at trailer park
What started as an investigation into a deadly hit-and-run at a Florida trailer park over the weekend turned into an immigration bust as police came…
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Trump Says Netanyahu, Not Washington, Ordered Israeli Strike On Qatar
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Israel’s airstrike in Qatar was the decision of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stressing that it was not…
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Trump administration asks SCOTUS once again for ability to freeze billions in foreign aid
For the third time since February, the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the battle over its efforts to freeze billions…
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The Southern takeover of American culture
A woman watches roller skaters during a listening party for Beyoncé’s album Cowboy Carter in Houston, Texas, on March 29, 2024. | Mark Felix/AFP via…
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Politics
Farage paints Britain as a censorship hellhole. Is he right?
LONDON — “At what point did we become North Korea” Nigel Farage asked of the U.K. Wednesday as he took to the grand surrounds of…
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Technology
Google is having ‘productive discussions’ with Trump lawyers about his deplatforming suit
Critics of Big Tech and President Donald Trump are on high alert as Google and President Donald Trump’s legal teams are engaged in what look…
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How the Trump administration changed the rules of international diplomacy – by a former British ambassador
The Trump administration’s policies are making life more complicated for US diplomats abroad. In the past few days, senior US diplomats in two friendly countries…
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