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Opioid maker Purdue Pharma shuts down as part of legal settle...
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Purdue Pharma officially ended operations Friday, a year after the Sackler family reached a $7.4 billion settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general, including New York's, for the companys
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The Next Alzheimers Breakthrough Will Take More Than Just Sci...
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Alzheimers research is entering a new phase, as treatments that have taken decades to develop begin to reach patients. But getting those advances to people will depend on more than scientific progres

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With First Choice Womens Centers V. Davenport, The Supreme Co...
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The Academy Announces Huge, Long-Awaited Change to Best Inter...
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On Friday afternoon, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made its annual announcement of new awards rules and campaign promotional regulations for the upcoming 99th Oscars scheduled for S

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GPT-5.5 Matches Heavily Hyped Mythos Preview In New Cybersecu...
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Last month, Anthropic made a big deal about the supposedly outsize cybersecurity threat represented by its Mythos Preview model, leading the company to restrict the initial release to "critical indus

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French PM fuels row with trip to buy baguettes
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Academy Makes Seismic Oscar Rule Changes For Acting & Interna...
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just made Oscar rule and eligibility changes in the acting and International Film categories that have to rank with the most significant in its nea

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Rodrigo Giro Serro: TIL #144 Sentinel built-in
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Sentinel values are unique placeholder values that are commonly used in programming. Python 3.15 ships with a new built-in sentinel that can be used to create new sentinel values: # Python 3.15+ &
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Con Artists Posing as Ice Agents Are Using WhatsApp to Bilk V...
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This story was originally published by ProPublica. As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence break out amid the military-style immigration sweeps across t

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A Chick-fil-A worker got fired and then showed up behind the ...
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When most people get fired from a job, they pick up and move on. For Keyshun Jones, he allegedly went back for seconds. The 23-year-old former Chick-fil-A employee in Grapevine, Texas, has been arre
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How the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 Finale Connects ...
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SCOTUS just unleashed a gerrymandering dragon
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So much for the mid-decade redistricting wars ending in a tie. On April 21, Democrats engineered themselves a 10-1 gerrymander in Virginia, a pickup of four seats. Party leaders declared it payback

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Did a Human Write This?
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STILL THE KING: Squeaky-clean Michael Jackson biopic moonwalk...
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You come at the King of Pop, you best not miss. When critics condemned the new Michael Jackson biopic for ignoring the sexual abuse allegations that haunted the late pop star, audiences had a simpl

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GLP-1 Drugs May Help You Shed Weight ... And Possibly Hair
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NYPD arrests for lying down on the subway are 'problematic' a...
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Local lawmakers and the mayors office need to assess and address a surge in people being arrested and taken to court for lying down or spreading out in New York Citys public transit system, the leade
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F1 Miami GP announces major Paddock Club expansion for 2027
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Xbox added its new logo to dynamic backgrounds faster than I ...
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The MacRumors Show: Your Tech Questions Answered
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Our advice columnists have heard it all over the yearsso were diving into the How to Do It archives to share classic letters with our readers. Have a question?Send it to StoyaandRich here.(Its an

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Musk Warns of Killer AI While He and the Rest of Silicon Val...
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The bitter courtroom brawl between Elon Musk and Sam Altman captivating the tech industry this week revolves in no small part around fears that artificial intelligence technologies both men are build

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Kneecap is used to controversy. On new album 'Fenian,' they'r...
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The Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap got their start rapping about drugs and their ire toward the British government. They're still doing that. But according to member Mo Chara, their new album, Fenian, is

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