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African Journalists Urge Senegal to Release Pape Alé Niang
Pape Alé Niang, an investigative reporter, was arrested on charges of disclosing confidential government information. Journalists and rights defenders say he was just doing his job.
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Prince Harry Claims in Memoir to Have Killed 25 in Afghanistan
After British news outlets revealed details from his memoir about his military service, Afghan officials and some in the British military expressed criticism.
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The Pale Blue Eye
One thing a movie watcher might not be looking for during the actual bleak midwinter is more bleak midwinter on the screen. Full disclosure: “The Pale Blue Eye,” written and directed by Scott Cooper and starring his frequent collaborator Christian Bale, set in New York’s more-rugged-than-today Hudson Valley in 1830, is thoroughly suffused with bleak…
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8 vegetable stew recipes to keep you warm this winter
You don’t need meat to create a satisfying, filling and warming vegetable stew.
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Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker Drama Raises New Fears on Debt Limit
An emboldened conservative flank and concessions made to win votes could lead to a protracted standoff on critical fiscal issues, risking economic pain.
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Jack Ma, Ant Group Founder, Will Relinquish Control
Ant Group, the fintech sister company of the e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, is one of China’s most influential companies.
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A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom
An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in response to short prompts seize the imagination.
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‘Alexa, Why Do We Keep Buying You?’
With questions swirling about the utility of voice assistants, we asked readers how they use one of the most popular, Amazon’s Alexa. Here’s what they answered.
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ESPN Looks for the Right Tone as the NFL Resumes Games
The broadcast on Saturday was a test of how the networks are going to cover the sport in the wake of Damar Hamlin’s collapse on the field last Monday.
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Closest of friends, Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan split over Kevin McCarthy
The Freedom Caucus is poised to have more influence than Meadows and Jordan dreamed of when they founded it eight years ago, even if they were on different sides in the speaker fight.