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Japan’s Lockheed scandal revisited

In December 1957, an American businessman stepped off a plane onto the tarmac of a chilly Tokyo International Airport at Haneda. Exhausted by the long flight from Los Angeles, the man was in his mid-50s and wore a serious expression behind his glasses that gave the impression

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Changing the antibiotic playbook to catch an ESKAPE artist

Nearly a century ago, a single colony of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) helped launch the antibiotic age. In 1928, Alexander Fleming returned to his London lab to find that a stray mold had wiped out the Staphylococcus growing on one of his plates. The accident gave the

Hunter Biden to launch crypto meme coin

Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, announced Monday that he’s debuting a meme coin, traded under the ticker $LAPTOP, in reference to the political controversy that swarmed him in 2020 and since over his personal laptop. Biden teased the launch, first reported by

Teaser trailer for You Can See Everything from Nathan...

Teaser trailer for You Can See Everything from Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim. “Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move.” WHAT WAS THAT?

Rudy Giuliani urges Mamdani to not attend 9/11 anniversary

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who later worked as President Trump’s personal lawyer, publicly criticized current Mayor Zohran Mamdani for planning to attend a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero on Friday. “Frankly, whatever he’d like to say, he

Nvidia chip export loophole clouds US-China AI summit talks

An investigative report on a blacklisted Chinese server maker’s American subsidiary, which has freely exported Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips through a loophole in Washington’s Entity List rules, has added fresh uncertainty to a planned US-China AI

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Trump posts map showing US takeovers of other nations

US President Donald Trump has spent his second term threatening takeovers of various other countries, from Canada and Cuba to Greenland, and on Monday he shared on social media a map that fueled fresh fears of his imperialist “Donroe Doctrine.” The map on Trump’s Truth Social

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