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Trip.com struck with $765 million penalty from China over monopoly allegations

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Trip.com struck with $765 million penalty from China over monopoly allegations

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China alleges Trip.com prohibited hotels from collaborating with competing platforms and entered exclusive partnerships.

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What Magic: The Gathering’s record year reveals about America’s stalled adulthood economy

• Millennials

What Magic: The Gathering’s record year reveals about America’s stalled adulthood economy

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A fantasy card game invented in the mid-1990s just had its best year ever. Blame the economy,...

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Canadian intern at NATO’s military headquarters arrested on espionage charges

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Canadian intern at NATO’s military headquarters arrested on espionage charges

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Belgian authorities arrested a Canadian intern accused of spying for a third country while working at NATO's...

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A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot showed up in Google search results

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A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot showed up in Google search results

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The topics of the chats, which seem to have been inadvertently exposed, ranged from erotica, programming chats,...

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U.N. chief urges global support for Syria during first Damascus visit since Assad’s fall

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U.N. chief urges global support for Syria during first Damascus visit since Assad’s fall

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António Guterres appealed for global support as Syria rebuilds from war and criticized Israel's actions in southern...

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The Strait of Hormuz isn’t fertilizer’s first starring role — and 1856 law still defines U.S. overseas territory

• fertilizer

The Strait of Hormuz isn’t fertilizer’s first starring role — and 1856 law still defines U.S. overseas territory

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When governments began to treat guano as a strategic resource, Congress responded with the Guano Islands Act...

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The new Air Force One controversy is really about a 90-year power struggle over presidential travel

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The new Air Force One controversy is really about a 90-year power struggle over presidential travel

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From Roosevelt's wartime flying boat to Bush's scramble on 9/11, the aircraft has quietly reshaped how presidents...

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Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century?

• Taxes

Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century?

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Should how much you pay in taxes determine how much your vote counts? Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...

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‘It looked like the apocalypse’: France’s summer of deadly heat turns into a wildfire that is making its own lightning

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‘It looked like the apocalypse’: France’s summer of deadly heat turns into a wildfire that is making its own lightning

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Near Bordeaux, a wildfire grew so intense it spawned self-feeding firestorms, forcing 220,000 people from their homes.

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U.S. to reopen border to Mexican cattle imports after screwworm ban

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U.S. to reopen border to Mexican cattle imports after screwworm ban

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The U.S. will begin allowing Mexican cattle imports Aug. 24 after a yearlong suspension tied to the...

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