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Weeks after the release of “Vulture 2,” BMG sent a cease and desist letter demanding written compliance to refrain from further copyright violations, which was ignored. A representative for ...

President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, bristled at an Associated Press reporter during a recent press conference for asking, essentially, whether she knew what a tariff was ...

I’m also asking that their explanation clearly shows how anything he allegedly said is different from what was said by the president on January 6, 2021, and how his alleged actions differ from ...

For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were ... Marc Drogin echoed this explanation, writing that upper ...

According to news reports, DOGE is closing four Social Security offices in North Carolina, including the one in Greenville, the 12th-largest city in the state, with a city population of over ...

Credit: CNSA/PEC HELSINKI — China is inviting interested parties to submit proposals to join the country’s pioneering Mars sample return mission, due to launch in late 2028. The China National ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission promises to fill significant gaps in our understanding of the universe and propel humanity forward in a new phase of the space race. Exploring the cosmos ...