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Putin Urges Russians to Unite on Ukraine War
A day after a rubber-stamp presidential election, President Vladimir Putin said he would not back down in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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Gambia Votes to Overturn Landmark Ban on Female Genital Cutting
Lawmakers in the West African country voted to advance a bill repealing a 2015 ban. If it passes the final round of voting, Gambia will become the first nation to roll back protections against the practice.
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Pakistani Airstrikes in Afghanistan Kill at Least 8, Taliban Officials Say
The pre-dawn strikes escalated tensions between two countries that have clashed over the recent rise in militant violence on Pakistan’s soil.
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One Collector’s High Mountain Road to Hokusai
A professor’s 30-year dream of assembling a complete set of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the pinnacle of the artist’s career, leads to an auction.
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Empty Frames and Other Oddities From the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist
After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in history has surfaced but the puzzling peculiarities of the case still draw interest.
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‘Tropical Modernism’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Britain exported the architectural style to West Africa and India, but local practitioners adapted it for a different climate and a new kind of politics.
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When Paul Simon Bombed at the Movies
Last night, MGM+ premiered the first chapter of its two-part documentary “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.” (Part Two airs this Sunday.) It’s an exhaustive look at the 82-year-old singer-songwriter’s career—or, at least, the first chunk of it, starting with his days in Simon & Garfunkel and continuing through his solo years, ending…
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Palm Royale is Pretty and Shallow, Which At Least Matches its Characters
Apple TV+’s “Palm Royale” has unfortunate timing. It’s an earnest entry in the class-striving genre, here telling the tale of Kristen Wiig’s Maxine Simmons D’ellacourt as she tries to break into high society in Palm Beach in the 1960s. But the conventions of these tales recently took a high-profile battering with the breakout popularity of…
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Benchmarking the Security Capabilities of Large Language Models
Comparative Sophos X-Ops testing not only indicates which models fare best in cybersecurity, but where cybersecurity fares best in AI
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Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time
To decarbonize the electrical grid, companies are finding creative ways to store energy during periods of low demand.