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Fact check: DeSantis says newest booster increases chances of COVID infection. Not true
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Fact check: DeSantis says newest booster increases chances of COVID infection. Not true
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Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work: Our number-crunching suggests that their plight could be much worse than previously thought
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Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
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Has Taylor Swift peaked?: The musician is at the height of her commercial, but not her creative, power
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Has Taylor Swift peaked?
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Editorial: DeSantis trash-talks pot amendment but his objections don’t add up:     The Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board consists of Opinion Editor Krys Fluker ...
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Editorial: DeSantis trash-talks pot amendment but his objections don’t add ...
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DeSantis has one of the highest governor disapproval ratings, poll finds: However, DeSantis is popular overall, and beloved by Republicans.
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DeSantis has one of the highest governor disapproval ratings, poll finds
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Finally, America’s Congress does right by Ukraine: Disaster has been dodged. But the political malaise that delayed the Ukraine funding bill remains
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Finally, America’s Congress does right by Ukraine
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Why South Korean pop culture rocks and North Korea’s does not: Dictatorship stifles creativity and joy
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Why South Korean pop culture rocks and North Korea’s does not
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DeSantis signs bill mandating kindergartners learn history of communism: Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that will lead to the history of communism being taught ...
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DeSantis signs bill mandating kindergartners learn history of communism
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DeSantis said public schools were religious when US began. Is he right?: Scholars say the Founding Fathers’ thoughts on public education are often misconstrued.
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DeSantis said public schools were religious when US began. Is he right?
Quick Glance: Arrest and Three Injured in Wales School Attack
  • Police urge removal of social media footage to prevent contempt of court and distressing those affected.

  • A parent expresses concern over the injured and highlights the rarity of such incidents in Ammanford.

  • Three injured and one arrested after an incident at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, South-west Wales.

  • Recap of the ongoing investigation at the school as parents anxiously wait for updates on their children's safety.
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“We have to make Biden lose”: Arab-Americans are switching to Trump: Anger over Gaza in the swing state of Michigan might cost the president the election
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“We have to make Biden lose”: Arab-Americans are switching to Trump
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Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly: Police intervention at Columbia has provoked protests at other universities
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Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly
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Don’t be gloomy about Tesla and its EV rivals : The industry has had a terrible few months. But demand is likely to pick up
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Don’t be gloomy about Tesla and its EV rivals
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs school chaplain bills, says Satanists not welcome - UPI.com
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs school chaplain bills, says Satanists not ...
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Two years of war have impoverished many Ukrainians: The elderly, the displaced and the disabled are the worst affected
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Two years of war have impoverished many Ukrainians
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Editorial: School chaplains law crosses a sacred line in Florida: Florida's new school chaplaincy program is a direct affront to the separation of church ...
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Editorial: School chaplains law crosses a sacred line in Florida
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Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close : A baby bust is starting to work its way through the system
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Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close 
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Florida prosecutor suspended by DeSantis running for re-election : A Florida prosecutor who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for refusing to enforce state ...
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Florida prosecutor suspended by DeSantis running for re-election 
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How Russia targeted France and radicalised Emmanuel Macron: He is now one of Europe’s leading Russia hawks
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How Russia targeted France and radicalised Emmanuel Macron
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DeSantis approves $200M boost for My Safe Florida Home grant program: Gov. Ron DeSantis approved $200 million to continue a popular grant program to help low- ...
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DeSantis approves $200M boost for My Safe Florida Home grant program
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Israel should not rush to strike back at Iran: Instead it should try a novel response to Iran’s missile attack: restraint
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Israel should not rush to strike back at Iran
Quick Glance: Israel artist calls for Gaza ceasefire
  • The representative of Israel at the international art fair is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza.

  • Ruth Patir’s video installation called (M)otherland was scheduled to open on Saturday at Israel’s national pavilion at the international art show but will remain closed for now.

  • Patir stated on her website that the artist and curators are showing solidarity with the families of the hostages and the large community in Israel calling for change, rather than canceling themselves or the exhibition.

  • It is believed that there are still individuals in Gaza, including 129 captives taken during the attacks led by Hamas on Israel on October 7, with 34 of them presumed dead.
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Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z: They are not doomed to be poor and anxious
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Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z
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Israel responds to Iran’s barrage with a symbolic strike: Both sides have a chance to de-escalate their conflict, at least for now
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Israel responds to Iran’s barrage with a symbolic strike
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Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it: Only America’s courts can save the video app now
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Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it
Quick Glance: Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill Into Law, ByteDance Forced to Sell
  • After signaling his intention, President Joe Biden signs the foreign aid package including the TikTok ban bill into law.

  • The U.S. Senate passes a bill forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban.

  • ByteDance has nine months to sell TikTok to comply with the law.

  • The U.S. government has been persistent in trying to ban TikTok due to national security concerns.
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DeSantis approval on the upswing; Republicans like idea of Casey DeSantis for governor
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DeSantis approval on the upswing; Republicans like idea of Casey DeSantis ...
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war: And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
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DeSantis blames congressional Republicans for failure on U.S. southern border
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The House of Representatives gives Ukraine its best news in a year: $61bn of aid is on the way. It should have an almost instant effect
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The House of Representatives gives Ukraine its best news in a year
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How Iran covered up the damage from Israel’s strikes: New images shared with The Economist show how a swap helped calm a crisis
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How Iran covered up the damage from Israel’s strikes
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How to get more people into military uniforms: Why mandatory military service makes sense for some countries but not others
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How to get more people into military uniforms
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Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the latest polls?: The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
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Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the latest polls?
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Why the stockmarket is disappearing: Large companies such as ByteDance, OpenAI and Stripe are staying private
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Why the stockmarket is disappearing
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DeSantis signs bill limiting book objections in school libraries: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a new bill into law Tuesday that limits the ability of ...
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DeSantis signs bill limiting book objections in school libraries
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich: Millennials were poorer at this stage in their lives. So were baby-boomers
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
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Would you really die for your country?: Military conscription is on the agenda in the rich world
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Would you really die for your country?
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DeSantis says Florida amendment would allow abortions ‘until birth.’ What’s true?
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DeSantis says Florida amendment would allow abortions ‘until birth ...
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As Russia’s attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western support: An interview with the country’s new national security chief
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As Russia’s attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western support
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The growing role of fighting robots on the ground in Ukraine: Drones already fill the skies. Now uncrewed vehicles are heading to the front lines
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The growing role of fighting robots on the ground in Ukraine
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Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?: Bernard Arnault sizes up his heirs apparent
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Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?
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After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception: More young women are tying their tubes
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After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception
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Election Updates: Biden to campaign in Florida, keeping the focus on abortion.
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What to read to understand Chechnya: Four books and a film that unpack an influential region of Russia
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What to read to understand Chechnya
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Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia: Its superdrones can reach targets as far away as Siberia
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Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia
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Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by DeSantis get special visas, lawyer says: Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by Gov. Ron DeSantis have received visas ...
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Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by DeSantis get special visas ...
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Some migrants flown by Florida to Martha’s Vineyard qualify for victim visas: Some migrants this month received “bona fide determinations” in their visa ...
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Some migrants flown by Florida to Martha’s Vineyard qualify for victim ...
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Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer: And its economy is unusually well-defended against American politics
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Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer
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Florida plans $850 million in Everglades restoration projects in next year: Florida officials and environmental advocates on Earth Day touted major progress ...
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Florida plans $850 million in Everglades restoration projects in next year
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Can DeSantis-ousted prosecutor Andrew Warren win reelection?: At Tampa’s Martin Luther King Jr. Parade last year — a must-attend event for local pols — here came ...
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Can DeSantis-ousted prosecutor Andrew Warren win reelection?
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The dark side of growing old: A coming wave of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia will test China to its limits
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The dark side of growing old
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What happens if Ukraine loses?: Russian victory would be debilitating for the West, and especially for Europe
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What happens if Ukraine loses?
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What to read about India’s economy: Can it emulate China’s past manufacturing success—and should it even try?
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What to read about India’s economy
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A short history of India in eight maps: Understanding the breathtaking diversity of India and Indians
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A short history of India in eight maps
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Truth Social is a mind-bending win for Donald Trump: And disturbing evidence of how he destabilises reality for Americans
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Truth Social is a mind-bending win for Donald Trump
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Why is so much of the internet’s infrastructure run by volunteers?: Malware smuggled into XZ Utils software highlights a bigger problem
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Why is so much of the internet’s infrastructure run by volunteers?
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New Florida Law Prepares Students to 'Withstand' Communist Indoctrination: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation that strengthens education standards ...
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New Florida Law Prepares Students to 'Withstand' Communist Indoctrination
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DeSantis signs law forbidding local governments from setting heat-exposure rules for workers
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DeSantis signs law forbidding local governments from setting heat-exposure ...
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How Hollywood fell in love with video games: “Fallout” is the latest in a successful run of adaptations
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How Hollywood fell in love with video games
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Iran and Israel’s shadow war explodes into the open: But the Islamic Republic may have miscalculated
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Iran and Israel’s shadow war explodes into the open
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay: Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
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DeSantis Limits Florida Book Challenges, Blames Activists Making a ‘Mockery’ of the System
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DeSantis Limits Florida Book Challenges, Blames Activists Making a ...
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Letters: Dangers of teaching communism | Demings’ decisions: The governor's decision to mandate kindergartners learn the evils of communism imperils the ...
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Letters: Dangers of teaching communism | Demings’ decisions
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry: The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
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Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill limiting school book challenges: The state leads the nation in book bans and DeSantis blamed "activists" for trying to ...
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Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill limiting school book challenges
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The German chancellor’s awkward meeting with China’s boss: It is time for Xi Jinping to accept that Germany isn’t America’s puppet
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The German chancellor’s awkward meeting with China’s boss
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Käthe Kollwitz, a pioneering German artist, finally gets her due: Major exhibitions in Frankfurt and New York showcase her portrayals of the scars of war
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Käthe Kollwitz, a pioneering German artist, finally gets her due
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous: It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
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The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza: Its generals botched the strategy, and discipline among troops has broken down
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The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza
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Why do cicadas have such a strange life cycle?: Two broods will soon emerge simultaneously for the first time in 221 years
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Why do cicadas have such a strange life cycle?
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On its 150th anniversary, Impressionism is surprisingly relevant: What the once-derided movement reveals about art today
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On its 150th anniversary, Impressionism is surprisingly relevant
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Citigroup, Wall Street’s biggest loser, is at last on the up: Jane Fraser’s unexpected success
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Citigroup, Wall Street’s biggest loser, is at last on the up
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Tampa Bay is no longer a swing region, DeSantis says. Is he right? : Democrats could soon be outnumbered in every county. Will it translate to Republican ...
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Tampa Bay is no longer a swing region, DeSantis says. Is he right?
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Disney World’s fire department gets rebranded: The Gov. Ron DeSantis' tourism oversight district approved Wednesday a rebranding of what was previously ...
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Disney World’s fire department gets rebranded
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Tensions mount between China and the Philippines : The latest incident was just inside the “nine-dash line”
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Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
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Commentary: Florida discards those nuisance police oversight panels: A new state law requires appointments to police oversight boards to be made by police chiefs ...
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Commentary: Florida discards those nuisance police oversight panels
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How to locate the global south: How a fuzzy, scorned term reflects geopolitical shifts
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How to locate the global south
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Editorial: The cruelty of exposing outdoor workers to extreme heat: Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed House Bill 433, which prevents local governments from putting in ...
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Editorial: The cruelty of exposing outdoor workers to extreme heat
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State may put onus on Florida educators to police ‘frivolous’ book challenges
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State may put onus on Florida educators to police ‘frivolous’ book ...
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Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo : The wrestler who shocked and changed Japan died in early April, aged 54
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Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?: The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
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Can the world save Sudan from a nationwide famine?: Also on the daily podcast: disappearing languages and Scottish wildcats
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Can the world save Sudan from a nationwide famine?