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In recent weeks stories have emerged about college studentswhisked offcampuses by immigration agents – targeted for deportation based on their writings or activism – and detained in federal custody despite never being charged...
With Election Day around the corner, American parents may be considering paying for childcare to ease the voting process. But in some states, heading to the polls while your child is being cared for can be free of charge. In swing state North Caroli...
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Is being bilingual good for you brain?...
An 83-year-old woman sustained \\\\"serious injuries\\\\" after being gored by awild bisonat Yellowstone National Park, officials said on Monday. The woman, from Greenville, South Carolina, was visiting the park on June 1 when a bison ...
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer leads this year's Bafta Film Award nominations with a total of 13. They include one for Cillian Murphy for playing J Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist described as the father of the atomic bomb....
What does bilingualism do to the brain? And are there benefits to being bilingual? Turns out there are lots of upsides....
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A senior Google engineer says one of the company's artificial intelligence systems has become a sentient being. The technology firm has suspended Blake Lemoine for breaching confidentiality rules -- and insists there's no evidence its AI chatbot is ...
His country is immersed in a gas crisis. But Nicu Popescu is trying to remain positive. "On Monday our country made history," Moldova's foreign minister tells me. "For the first time Moldova bought gas from a sourc...
The official teaser trailer for \\\\"Being the Ricardos\\\\" is out now. The first look at the upcoming Aaron Sorkin-directed film, starring Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz, was released on Tuesday. Amazon St...
A large number of poorer countries receiving Covid-19 vaccines through a global sharing scheme do not have enough doses to continue programmes, the World Health Organization has said. WHO senior adviser Dr Bruce Aylward said the ...
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Getting all your cardboard recycled may often seem like a pain, but there is big money to be made from all this so-called "beige gold". And sadly this is attracting criminals around the world. Thieves are making a fortune from stea...
A state of emergency hs been declared in Beirut after a blast killed at least 137 people and injured about 5,000 others, with dozens more still missing. The president of Lebanon, Michel Aoun, has said the blast was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium ...
Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen is "very poorly at the moment” and spent a night in intensive care, his family have said. The statement on Twitter said he was "now doing OK" and was "stable" and &...
A man has died in Hong Kong after being hit on the head during clashes between government supporters and protesters. The government said the 70-year-old cleaner was on a lunch break on Wednesday when he was struck by "hard objects hurle...
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