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Jul 10, 2026
$3 Million Anti-Woke Center Opens With One Student After University Cuts 28 Majors for Budget Crisis
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Jul 10, 2026
Developing Countries Spend More on Debt Than Schools — and Creditors Block the Relief
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Jul 10, 2026
Colorado Says Moose Weren't 'Established' Until 1978 — Except for the 9,000 Years They Lived There
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Jul 10, 2026
ICE Agents Kill Man Who Wasn't Their Target. No Body Cameras. Agency Says He 'Weaponized His Vehicle.'
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Jul 9, 2026
Puerto Rico Agency Fixed the Data Breach It Says Never Happened
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Jul 9, 2026
French Team's Anti-Deportation Star Flew on Planes That Deport Immigrants
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Jul 9, 2026
Weight-Loss Drug Creates Stomach Mass, Doctors Prescribe 1.5 Liters of Diet Coke
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Jul 9, 2026
Scientists Call It a 'Contact Binary.' The Universe Calls It a Space Peanut.
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Jul 8, 2026
Trump's Tech Donors Are Pricing Out the Factories His 'Made in America' Plan Promised to Save
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Jul 8, 2026
Anthropic's 'Ethical AI' Brand Met the Business Model That Makes Surveillance Inevitable
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Jul 8, 2026
Catnip Works As Well As Deet. It Took Until 2026 To Test It On People Who Need It.
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Jul 8, 2026
AI Coding Assistants Can't Tell Their Own Hallucinations from Reality—Now Hackers Can Exploit That
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Jul 8, 2026
Waymo drove two teens to police instead of their destination — five officers showed up
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Jul 7, 2026
FIFA Breaks 64-Year Precedent After Phone Call From Landlord
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Jul 7, 2026
ISPs Win Right to Hide Fee Breakdowns They Already Calculate for Your Bill
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Jul 7, 2026
Teens Built a Plasma Cannon, Then Used It for Breaking and Entering
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Jul 7, 2026
The Descendants Met to Reconcile While the Court Came Within One Vote of Repealing Birthright Citizenship
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Jul 7, 2026
Man Prevents Eye-Twitch Disaster by Creating Eye Disaster
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Jul 6, 2026
Starlink Charges $1,500 Surprise Fees Because Its Network Can't Handle the Customers It Already Sold
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Jul 6, 2026
Marriage to a U.S. Citizen Used to Mean Legal Exemption — Now It Means Maybe
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