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• The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
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• Xi Jinping repeats imperial China's mistakes
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• Vladimir Putin says the world's energy infrastructure is "at risk"
• Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
• The Apple Watch ban is here: Why Apple is no longer selling the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra
• Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
• Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi wins another stage-managed election in Egypt
• Taiwan needs a new defence strategy to deal with China
• Severe drought is constraining the Panama Canal
• A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel
• Louisiana Creole is enjoying a modest revival
• Who is sabotaging underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea?
• China has its eyes on Okinawa
• America, Israel and Saudi are "at the cusp of a deal"
• AI's World-Ending Capabilities Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
• Investors are going loco for CoCos
• The notable obituaries of 2023
• Best MP3 Players, Portable Media Players and Digital Audio Players (2023)
• An enormous—and unexpected—lump of granite has been found on the Moon
• A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
• The best memes of 2021
• Germany's Christian Democrats are unsure whom to hug
• You Know It's a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
• A landslip in Hong Kong fuels resentment of the rich
• Binyamin Netanyahu is at the mercy of his hardline coalition partners
• Why aren't more people being sacked?
• Latin American cities are struggling in the liveability ranking
• The best Nintendo Switch controllers for 2024
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Why fear is spreading in financial markets
• Supply chains are back to normal. Why is inflation still so high?
• To understand Xi Jinping, it helps to be steeped in the classics
• Labour wins big in a Scottish by-election
• Israel's offensive against Hamas enters its crucial stage
• A Nobel prize for quantum dottiness
• Architecture: Rowan Moore's five best projects of 2023
• The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how
• Now Russia is fighting to gain territory in the east of Ukraine
• Steel Life review – a journey through the poisoned majesty of Peru
• Everything you need for a winter family adventure
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Video: Busting globalisation myths
• Business
• Inside Mathematicians' Search for the Mysterious 'Einstein Tile'
• Mexico's government has attacked the country's electoral watchdog
• China is sending escapers back to North Korea
• The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world
• Oil prices fall, defying suggestions of a $100 barrel
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• The week around the world in 20 pictures
• Attacks on shipping threaten to upend peace talks in Yemen
• Should women's football have different rules from men's?
• Indonesia wants to export moderate Islam
• Politics hamper China's efforts to stimulate the economy
• A Christmas that changed me: the spliff was as big as a parsnip – and Granny got stoned
• Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
• Rupert Murdoch isn't going anywhere just yet
• Joe Biden's visit to Hanoi is a signal to China
• Univision, America's Spanish news giant, reaches out to Donald Trump
• Is Britain's plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda salvageable?
• NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
• Israel is strangling the West Bank's economy
• Why are so many of the victims in Gaza children?
• The Caribbean is awash with illegal American guns
• China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society
• Latin America's local governments too often fail their people
• The Americas face a historic opportunity. Will the region grasp it?
• New technology could cement Indonesia's dominance of vital nickel
• What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home
• Turkey's sluggish post-earthquake reconstruction
• The New The Color Purple Finds Its Own Rhythm
• The curse of the badly run meeting
• Is Ukraine's counter-offensive over?
• Why Britain's homes will need different types of heat pump
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's left-wing president, is floundering
• Business
• The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy
• The covid-19 inquiry exposes chaos in Boris Johnson's government
• How, if at all, might Russia be punished for its war crimes in Ukraine?
• A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh's liberation war
• This week's covers
• The US Supreme Court Will Decide the Fate of Medication Abortion
• Renewable energy has hidden costs
• After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Could economic indicators give an early warning of a war over Taiwan?
• Video: insights from the author
• What will artificial intelligence mean for your pay?
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Israel's war economy is working—for the time being
• Waving a Red Flag at Bond Bulls
• Women's football is becoming bigger and better
• Satoshi Is Black
• Portugal's prime minister resigns over a corruption scandal
• The X-Men Will Rise to a New Relaunch Next Summer
• Games: Simon Parkin's five best of 2023
• The fallout from Mozambique's debt scandal reaches a London court
• How to get African oil out of the ground without Western lenders
• China and Bhutan aim to resolve a long-running border dispute
• Inside the Spectocracy
• Oil traders are flocking to sanctions-free Venezuela
• Tyrant, liberator, warmonger, bureaucrat: the meaning of Napoleon
• An unruly OPEC is causing problems for Russia and Saudi Arabia
• Netflix's Big Data Dump Shows Just OK TV Is Here to Stay
• As Ukrainian men head off to fight, women take up their jobs
• Taiwan's dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
• A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4
• Keeping tabs on China's murky maritime manoeuvres
• Future-Proofing Your Town Sounds Great, Until You Try It
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China, war and tech: Taiwan's youth weigh in on a pivotal election
• America's university graduates live much longer than non-graduates
• Undeterred by racist incident, a Black Santa brings cheer to Arkansas
• KAL's cartoon
• How to master the art of delegation
• Ann Shulgin pioneered the use of psychedelics in therapy
• Engadget Podcast: Diving into the Apple Watch sales ban
• Germany's rampant hard-right AfD puts other parties in a fix
• Meet the Japanese Kurds
• Israel is more popular than social-media posts suggest
• How to Make Your Phone Last Forever: 6 Simple Tips
• Not Being Able to Burp Actually Sounds Pretty Horrific
• Lula cosies up to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's autocrat
• Russia is attacking Ukraine's agricultural exports
• German business is fed up with a government in disarray
• Could Mark Carney lead Canada?
• The EU's endless search for a migration fix
• At least 68 killed in central Gaza in airstrike, adding to weekend's bloodshed
• How Asia is reinventing its economic model
• A Chinese dispute with the Philippines is a test of America
• Adobe gives up on Figma, Apple Watch sales halted and hackers access millions of accounts
• Ukraine's new enemy: war fatigue in the West
• Douglas-042 - Powershell Script To Help Speed ​​Up Threat Hunting Incident Response Processes
• The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
• What will Indonesia look like after Jokowi leaves?
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
• For a second time Chileans reject a new constitution. Now what?
• How the Guardian covered 2023 – podcast
• How Japan poses a threat to the global financial system
• Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets
• How scientists are using artificial intelligence
• So long iPhone. Generative AI needs a new device
• Sorry, It's $15 to Drive into Midtown Manhattan
• Best Soft Mattress of 2023 - CNET
• Mexico's foreign policy is unambitious and erratic
• China's persecution of Uyghurs extends to those it once favoured
• Ties between foreign businesses and China go from bad to worse
• Higher wages are spurring innovation in dinner
• Is it cheaper to rent or buy property?
• Israeli settlers are causing mayhem in the West Bank
• Godzilla Minus One's Director Is Open to a Sequel
• Xi Jinping wants China to have better toilets
• Scrapyards adopt new high-tech ways to dismantle cars
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• Geert Wilders struggles towards power in the Netherlands
• Arduino exploring India manufacturing to limit counterfeit sales
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• PipeViewer - A Tool That Shows Detailed Information About Named Pipes In Windows
• Sniffing Women's Tears Makes Men Less Aggressive
• Harvard Has a Veritas Problem
• BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
• What Ken Paxton's acquittal means for Texas Republicans
• China's banks may be loaded up with hidden bad loans
• Pity the modern manager—burnt-out, distracted and overloaded
• Cuba's Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
• KAL's cartoon
• Forget the S&P 500. Pay attention to the S&P 493
• Frontline Formosa
• KAL's cartoon
• A devastating accusation by Justin Trudeau against India
• Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested
• The AI Detection Arms Race Is On
• Jiang Zemin oversaw a wave of economic change, but not much political reform
• An interview with Hsiao Bi-khim, candidate for Taiwan's vice-president
• The many prices of carbon dioxide
• This week's cover
• Are Canadian cities better than America's?
• Our tracker of voters' intentions shows the contest behind Trump
• Hollywood's strike enters its final act, as writers reach a deal
• Laura Lynch, founding member of The Chicks, dies at 65 in Texas car crash
• Why Agnes Chow fled Hong Kong and isn't likely to return
• Wines That Entertain as Well as Impress
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukraine's small Jewish community is thriving
• What happens to Gaza after the war?
• Why Chinese mourn Li Keqiang, their former prime minister
• How Liberia and Sierra Leone ended their cycles of violence
• External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
• Latin America's armed forces have increasing clout
• America suspends duty-free access to four African countries
• America's government isn't shutting down just yet
• Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?
• Don't blame "quiet quitting" on Gen-Z
• Business
• A net-zero world needs new markets and institutions
• The return of The Economist's agony uncle
• McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the 'Smoking Gun' That Killed Their Startup
• A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art
• Big pharma can't get enough of one class of cancer drugs
• Why more English councils will go bust
• Linpmem - A Physical Memory Acquisition Tool For Linux
• Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
• The Internet Isn't Dead. It's 'Saturday Night Live'
• Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane
• Nigella Lawson says she is too self-conscious to say 'microwave'
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• Why are Latin American workers so strikingly unproductive?
• Seahawks vs. Titans Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 16 Online Today - CNET
• Pervez Musharraf was one of Pakistan's better dictators
• Why it might be time to buy banks
• The global backlash against climate policies has begun
• The 15 Best Movies of 2023—and Where to Watch Them
• Sinéad O'Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star
• A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
• Russians have emigrated in huge numbers since the war in Ukraine
• Amid turmoil in China's property market, the public seethes
• Fear and anger rise on the West Bank
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
• Are America's allies the holes in its export-control fence?
• From Ten Hag's future to a leaking roof: Ratcliffe's Manchester United in-tray
• The People's Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
• Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories
• Ukraine refugees plant seeds of a second life in our home
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukraine's latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs
• Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
• 40 Most Memorable Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Moments of 2023
• Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Top-Secret Hawaii Compound
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• Jokowi is building a political dynasty
• David Bowie delved into his own past on "Toy"
• Israel's truce with Hamas is drawing to a close
• Shyam Saran Negi never failed in his democratic duty
• Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
• ProcessStomping - A Variation Of ProcessOverwriting To Execute Shellcode On An Executable'S Section
• Best Mattresses for Heavy People for 2023 - CNET
• Dictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions
• Ukraine takes an important step towards EU membership
• Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro's influence
• Africa's supermarket revolution
• America may soon be in recession, according to a famous rule
• The new economy net zero needs
• Intervention at an Early Age May Hold Off the Onset of Depression
• Are America's CEOs overpaid?
• It's Time to Take Another Look at Parole
• Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office for eight years
• An FBI investigation raises questions about Eric Adams
• How to survive a superpower split
• Sucking a carbon-neutral fuel out of thin air
• An Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan is on the point of starvation
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• Chinese feminists are rebuilding their movement abroad
• How health-care costs stopped rising
• Trump asks appeals court to toss election interference case, arguing that he's immune
• Israeli soldiers fight to reach Hamas's headquarters
• The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Authoritarianism
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Frank Drake believed that the universe had to contain other intelligent beings
• As war looms Israel calls for 1.1m people to evacuate northern Gaza
• Democrats are giddy from this week's electoral sweep
• New rules for America's green-hydrogen industry are controversial
• The crime drama Russia and Ukraine want to ban
• The 47 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now
• On screen, Father Christmas cuts a mercurial figure
• The rise of English viticulture
• Share your favourite so-bad-it's-good Christmas films
• Canadians are starting to sour on migration
• The Supreme Court's code of conduct is a good first step
• Milan Kundera believed that truth lay in endless questioning
• Madeleine Albright saw herself as an ambassador for freedom
• American and Chinese scientists are decoupling, too
• Telegram-Nearby-Map - Discover The Location Of Nearby Telegram Users
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun
• Defy the odds, create a unique niche, and succeed beyond the hype
• A tax-cutting wave is sweeping over America's states
• Gaza's nights are darker now than at any point in the past decade
• The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI
• War-ravaged Somalia takes a big step towards normality
• Jailed Putin Foe Alexei Navalny Has Been Relocated, Team says
• Crypto industry steps up political donations as mood in Washington sours
• 'Let's have a Sunderland Barbie': Leo Pearlman on his plan to build a new Hollywood on Wearside
• Scientists have published an atlas of the brain
• Giving the poor a wodge of cash is better than dripping it out
• Why China's rulers fear Genghis Khan
• Germany's new strategy for dealings with China
• Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Found in an Arctic Prison
• A new play stages excerpts from the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry
• The films, theatre, art and music to look forward to in 2024
• To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it
• Polish farmers end blockade of Ukraine border crossing
• Albert Woodfox found his true self in prison
• The drawdown of African peacekeepers from Somalia has stalled
• Ecuador's president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
• The Supreme Court rules against Britain's Rwanda plan. What now?
• Tim Harford answers more of your crazy economics questions
• Inside America's School Internet Censorship Machine
• Centrists need to stop worrying and learn to love politics
• Study drugs make healthy people worse at problem-solving, not better
• Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees
• The FTC wants to strengthen COPPA to make it harder for companies to monetize kids' data
• Apple's Tight Grip on iMessage Spurs Fresh Calls for an Antitrust Probe
• Spending on infrastructure has fallen in real terms in America
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up
• Xi Jinping bumps up the share prices of firms he visits
• The temptations of deferred removals
• Can Israeli-Emirati business ties survive the Gaza war?
• The cost of the global arms race
• Israel Dismantles Tunnel Network That Served as Hamas Command Center
• Can you match the author to their pet? Try our quiz for literary animal lovers
• The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America's Broken Privacy Protections
• Jim Ratcliffe seals deal to buy $1.3bn stake in Man Utd
• The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams
• Could OpenAI be the next tech giant?
• How the war split the mafia
• Acknowledgments
• Iran's $6bn hostage deal is part of a broader diplomatic strategy
• The Age of Crispr Medicine Is Here
• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
• What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
• The ancient Eleusinian mysteries get a new incarnation
• PacketSpy - Powerful Network Packet Sniffing Tool Designed To Capture And Analyze Network Traffic
• How successful is egg-freezing at preserving fertility?
• A mercurial billionaire, Terry Gou, shakes up Taiwan's presidential race
• China's cities compete for kids
• China's ties with America are warming, a bit
• Why big oil is beefing up its trading arms
• The world should study China's crushing of Hong Kong's freedoms
• Azerbaijan wants to "reintegrate" Nagorno-Karabakh through force
• What would Europe do if Trump won?
• China edges towards a big bail-out
• Anxious and Joyless? You Might Just Be Sleep Deprived
• KnowsMore - A Swiss Army Knife Tool For Pentesting Microsoft Active Directory (NTLM Hashes, BloodHound, NTDS And DCSync)
• An ancient whale-like animal may be the biggest to have ever lived
• Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world's
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• A veteran protester and a Stonehenge solstice: photos of the day – Friday
• Beeper's iMessage Fight With Apple Has Blown Up Into a Debate Over Regulating Big Tech
• Canon tries to break ASML's grip on chipmaking tools
• Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium
• Lexus' LBX is the luxury city car you never knew you didn't need
• Productivity has grown faster in western Europe than in America
• A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine
• What Is Net Neutrality? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Sri Lanka shows how broken debt negotiations have become
• SunRay Kelley wanted to build in rhythm with nature, his teacher
• Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
• Tencent Rocked by China's New Boss Level
• 'You better pray': Christian nationalist groups are mobilizing before the 2024 elections
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Foreign students are pouring back into Australia
• Last-Minute Pop Culture Holiday Shopping Guide for Procrastinators
• This N.Y.U. Student Owns a $6 Million Crypto Mine. His Secret Is Out.
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• South American governments are trying to curb illegal fishing
• Rwanda wants to be Africa's new cop on the beat
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Inflatable Outdoor Furniture Ever Be Chic?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What is stiff person syndrome and can it be treated?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Deal Dive: Thank god a startup is solving the bed bug problem
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• Are American children's books getting more "woke"?
• Narendra Modi's party sweeps in north and central India
• Chicago's progressive coalition is struggling with migration
• Narendra Modi has seized and politicised Indian cricket
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• All the Jonathan Majors Trial Updates, and More Top Pop Culture News of the Week
• China's aggression brings Japan and the Philippines closer
• How China became a car-exporting juggernaut
• We Aren't Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?
• Antarctic sea ice is at a record low
• KAL's cartoon
• Britain's native farm animals can be rarer than giant pandas
• This week's covers
• Is there a way to wear false lashes without them being too obvious?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• We Need to Rethink Our Treatment of Pain
• Canada has a shortage of lifeguards
• A centre-right maverick, Pieter Omtzigt, could win the Dutch election
• The Holy Grail of Quantum Computing Is Finally Here. Or Is It?
• Joe Biden has shown a steady hand in the Gaza crisis
• EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here's Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anyway
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
• The Neighbors Who Destroyed Their Lives
• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
• The Uncanny Experience of Year-End Roundups
• Some progressives are arguing for a religious right to abortion
• The Republican Party no longer believes America is the essential nation
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• Taiwanese politics faces a crucial election in early 2024
• Riyadh Air is betting on a tourist surge to Saudi Arabia
• China wants women to stay home and bear children
• Who will fill the expelled George Santos's seat?
• Fernando Botero became famous for his over-size people and animals
• David Kirke believed safe sport repressed people's imaginations
• The (sort of) isolationist case for backing Ukraine
• Russia's brutal mercenaries probably won't matter much in Ukraine
• How American journalism lets down readers and voters
• A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• Sweden is suffering a grim wave of gang violence
• Saudi Arabia wants to become a force in electric-vehicle manufacturing
• A museum in Rotterdam opens up its collection
• Ray Dalio is a monster, suggests a new book. Is it fair?
• Why ExxonMobil is paying $60bn for Pioneer
• Narendra Modi is remaking India's 1.4m strong military
• The invasion of Ukraine is not the first social media war, but it is the most viral
• Bob Menendez's indictment is colourful even by Jersey standards
• Xi Jinping is trying to fuse the ideologies of Marx and Confucius
• America's House of Representatives finally has a speaker
• China's claim to the South China Sea gets even odder
• Evangelicals may soon rival Catholics in Latin America
• Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day
• Demolishing one of Babe Ruth's last stadiums
• America's Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch
• How to kill a goose quickly
• The future of fish farming is on land
• Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents
• Lula's ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality
• How China uses UNESCO to rewrite history
• How a sombre mood gripped Europe
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• Gazans Mourn After an Attack That Officials Say Killed Dozens
• Narendra Modi wants a lot more women in Indian politics
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• A Hamas leader refuses to admit his group planned to kill civilians
• This week's covers
• China's missing foreign minister loses his job
• Stolpersteine grieve for victims of the Nazis, one at a time
• Joe Biden steers a risky course after a Gaza hospital blast
• Cheer up, Sir Keir! It might never happen
• How the red beret became Africa's most political hat
• Why so much of the world won't stand up to Russia
• Catholic reformers want big changes to a church marred by sex abuse
• Journalists Had 'No Idea' About OpenAI's Deal to Use Their Stories
• Why you have an accent in a foreign language
• China is stoking anger over Japan's release of nuclear wastewater
• India is in the midst of an unusual IPO boom
• What survey data reveal about antisemitism in America
• The pandemic has accelerated a global decline in the rule of law
• The Bob Iger v Nelson Peltz rematch
• Two new books assess the geopolitical lessons of covid-19
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• El Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Paralysis in Congress makes America a dysfunctional superpower
• The Morning After: The Apple Watch ban and Sony seems to be winning the console war
• SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• Australians are no longer united on Aboriginal rights
• Weekend podcast: Victoria Mary Clarke remembers her husband Shane McGowan, Marina Hyde on Michelle 'PPE' Mone, and the shame of the 'silent treatment'
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• The Supreme Court may toss out Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Brutal urban warfare awaits Israel's army in Gaza
• Can Argentina's next president fix the economy? Don't count on it
• China Is Stealing AI Secrets to Turbocharge Spying, U.S. Says
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Volodymyr Zelensky tries to shake Congress out of paralysis
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• Why Donald Trump is gaining ground with young voters
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