Major Supreme Court Decisions Testing Trump’s Policies Remain
Over the next two weeks, the justices will release more than a dozen final opinions, including high-profile decisions on birthright…
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China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. For First Time Since 2017
A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called…
X-Ray Specs for the World’s Oldest, Sealed Letters
A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased in clay…
Neighborhood Reels From Loss of Landmark Church That Stood for 173 Years
The South Bushwick Church, whose steeple was a local beacon, was heavily damaged in a fire on Friday in a…
$50 Million Spent on N.Y. Primaries Includes A.I. and AIPAC Money
As early voting began earlier this month, AIPAC emerged from the sidelines to funnel $650,000 to Representative Adriano Espaillat, a…
At World Cup Soccer Game, Palestinian Emblems Abound
Jordan’s first qualification for the World Cup also means a World Cup berth for Palestinians, millions of whom live in…
Pakistan to Cut 18% Period Tax on Menstrual Products, But Poorest Families Still Can’t Afford Them
In Pakistan, only 12 percent of women and girls use safe, commercially-made menstrual products. Activists hailed a government plan to…
Those British Strawberries Are Being Picked by Central Asian Workers
Ten years after Brexit, most seasonal workers in Britain are from countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Without them, agricultural…
Brexit Has Cost the UK Growth, Analysts Say, in the Decade Since the Vote
Citing lower trade and investment, analysts broadly agree that Britain’s economy is smaller than it would have been if the…
The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers
As tech giants rush to build infrastructure, some residents who live near data centers say a constant low-frequency vibration is…