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States may enforce age limits for porn websites, Supreme Court rules
WASHINGTON — Citing the explosion of online porn, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that states may enforce age verification laws in hopes of…
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Cold chain market in Middle East and North Africa expected to hit $41.1 billion by 2030
BCC Research has recently released the “Cold Chain Regional Analysis Market: Middle East and North Africa(MENA)” market analysis. Based on…
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Supreme Court Rules Homophobic Books Bans in Schools Are OK
Cue the book bans. The Supreme Court sided Friday with a group of Maryland parents in Mahmoud v. Taylor, ruling 6–3 to allow them to pull…
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Trump Treasury Secretary Makes Humiliating Admission About Trade Deals
Wall Street was right about the president: Trump always chickens out. Despite spending weeks fuming about the fact that investors had…
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Supreme Court Caves to Trump in Ominous Birthright Citizenship Ruling
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein…
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How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?
Senate Republicans have no “big, beautiful” bill. It isn’t close to finalized. The Senate parliamentarian, combing through the details and…
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Spain braces for heatwave with temperatures to exceed 40 degrees
Spain is due to experience its first heatwave of the year, with maximum temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius, according to…
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Republicans Forced to Remove Gun Deregulation From Budget Bill
The Senate parliamentarian has shot down another batch of provisions in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”—this time including one that…
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OCBC trims 360 Account interest rates for the second time in 2025
OCBC will cut interest rates for its 360 Account, in line with lower interest rate expectations. With effect from Aug 1, the maximum…
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US: S&P 500, Nasdaq touch record highs after tame inflation data
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened at record highs on Friday (Jun 27) as a benign inflation report supported hopes for a dovish policy…
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Trump Tries Insanely Desperate Ploy to Convince Iran to Negotiate
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein…
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Hamas says more than 70 dead in Gaza in last 24 hours
More than 70 deaths have been registered within the past 24 hours as a result of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, the territory's Health…
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Even Fox Is Calling Out How Bad Trump’s Budget Bill Is
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein…
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S Africa's police intelligence chief arrested over fraud allegations
South Africa's criminal intelligence chief Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo has been arrested and has appeared in court on allegations of fraud and…
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Sygnum is sole new unicorn from South-east Asia in H1 2025: report
Digital asset group Sygnum has emerged as the sole new unicorn from South-east Asia in the first half of 2025, data platform Tracxn said…
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Several killed by this week's Israeli strike on Tehran's Evin prison
Israel's airstrike on Tehran's notorious Evin prison claimed the lives of a number of civilians, including a 52-year-old social worker and…
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The European Union’s Economic Double Standard with America Must End
The EU can’t have it both ways: relying on American technological leadership while building an entire policy framework around curbing it.…
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CCCS okays Tamarind Health’s proposed acquisition of TalkMed
The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) has cleared Tamarind Health’s proposed acquisition of tertiary healthcare…
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Transcript: MAGA Rage Takes Scary Turn as Trump Plummets in New Polls
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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The Mesmerizing, Hard-Edge Paintings of Fanny Sanín
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Contributor: AI isn't just standing by. It's doing things — without guardrails
Just two and a half years after OpenAI stunned the world with ChatGPT, AI is no longer only answering questions — it is taking actions. We…
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How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Special Effect
About 20 years ago, a neuroscientist named David Eagleman strapped a bunch of students into harnesses, hoisted them to the top of an…
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Meet the “Moderates” Trying to Make Trump’s Tax Bill More Regressive
In the distant past, Republican moderates were people like Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Bob Packwood of Oregon who preached…
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Democratic Governors, Why Are You Turning Your Backs on Workers?
Another Democrat, Maine Governor Janet Mills, vetoed pro-worker bills three years in a row: a labor whistleblower bill in 2021, a bill to…