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Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.

At a time when the Trump administration attacks the Smithsonian for presenting a complicated picture of American history, poet William Berkowitz muses on how quickly society forgets its own history.

Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister who has sweeping powers over Israeli rule in the West Bank, defines Israel's plan as the Decisive Plan. In Hebrew, the word he uses — “hachra’ah” — carries a stronger political meaning than “decisive.”

TPM’s investigation reveals that Rawson’s campaign got a boost from members of the very groups that marched in Charlottesville nine years ago. His campaign donations show he received funds from people with ties to white nationalist organizations.

A quarter of Berlin residents will have no say in the German capital's city-state election because they lack citizenship. That's the highest proportion of residents excluded from the election yet, and many are unhappy.

Donald Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through the barrel of a gun. So are the devastating toll of a decade of severe U.S.-imposed sanctions

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For the first time in its 40 year history, SA’s biggest union gathering did not reach quorum. COSATU said the congress would be reconvened within one month, as required by its constitution.

Electricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this large while real prices fell. The difference between then and now? Deregulated markets.