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Editor's Pick

Online brain rot is undermining our ability to tell meaningful stories

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media has the potential to empower storytelling, it can also spread
misinformation and lead to brain rot.

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Editor's Note: For cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han, this is a sign of
the decline in storytelling. Modern readers have lost the ability to
engage deeply with narratives. The "long, slow, lingering gaze" that
allows for daydreaming and true distraction has been replaced by a
hyper-focused engagement with constant streams of information. As a
result, narration is in crisis.

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Trump Officials And Russian Ministers Will Meet In Riyadh Tomorrow,
Kremlin Confirms - Forbes (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=145847&nl=daily]
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Top U.S. and Russian government officials will hold a meeting in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday to discuss the restoration of
bilateral ties and ending the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin confirmed
Monday, a move that comes just days after President Donald Trump
announced he has spoken with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the
matter.

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Volunteers Search for ISIS Kidnap Victims
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No international body is searching for hundreds of Yazidi women and
girls still held captive by the Islamist terrorists. Instead, their
fates depend on a ragtag army of activists, relatives and armchair
detectives.















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Could yogurt help protect against colorectal cancer?
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Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, with the
World Health Organization (WHO) reporting that it makes up more than
10% of all cancer diagnoses.

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China's electric vehicle giants are betting big on humanoid robots
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At the 2025 CCTV New Year Gala last month, a televised spectacle
watched by over a billion viewers in China, 16 humanoid robots took
the stage.














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A New Generation of 'Unbeatable' Fake IDs Is Bedeviling Bouncers
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The bar on Avenue A was already packed when a New York University
junior joined the door line on a recent Friday night in the East
Village. Outside, a stern bouncer scrutinized each person's driver's
license to keep out underage drinkers like this 20-year-old.

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Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we're
not alone
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A new model upends the decades-old "hard steps" theory that
intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event and suggests that
maybe it wasn't all that hard or improbable.














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Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy's
still screwed
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Interview It has been nearly a decade since famed cryptographer and
privacy expert Bruce Schneier released the book Data and Goliath: The
Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World - an
examination of how government agencies and tech giants exploit
personal data.

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Build Trust as a Team: Why It's Important & How to Do It
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I am fortunate to work in a place where I trust my coworkers and have
high confidence that they trust me as well. I will admit, that when I
first joined Atomic nearly nine years ago, I was a little more wary.
My previous work environments were not ones filled with assumed trust.














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Metas AI-powered Ray-Bans are life-enhancing for the blind - WSJ (No
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Pomeroy, 49 years old, recently bought a pair of Ray-Ban Meta smart
glasses, and now a voice inside them does all of those things for her
and morefrom helping her get dressed and prepare meals to sorting
laundry and reading books to her 3-year-old granddaughter. She also
frequently uses the glasses to get the time of day and current
temperature outside the couples Warsaw, Ind., home.

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Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Tate
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Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct,
organised crime and money laundering














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Canada Tries to Break the Ice With Trump - Foreign Policy (No paywall)
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Analysis: Canada Tries to Break the Ice With Trump

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Map shows states to be hit hardest by winter storms this week
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Joe Edwards is a Live News Reporter based in Newsweek's London Bureau.
He covers U.S. and global news and has a particular interest in U.S.
and U.K. politics and social policies. Joe joined Newsweek in April
2024 after graduating from City, University of London with an MA in
International Journalism. Prior to this, he studied History and
English Literature at the University of Kent. Languages: English. You
can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected]














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Top Russian Officials to Hold Talks With U.S. on Tuesday
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Top Russian officials will hold talks with U.S. counterparts on
restoring ties, negotiating a peaceful settlement to thewar in
Ukraineand preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir
Putin and U.S.President Donald Trump,the Kremlin said Monday.

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Collagen supplements: The secret to perfect skin, or marketing hype?
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Collagen is hugely hyped. This protein, which is important to the
structure of skin and joints, has been presented as a miracle cure for
everything from wrinkles to poor sleep.














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As Wall Street Chases Profits, Fire Departments Have Paid the Price
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Desperate to gain control of flames that were raging through Pacific
Palisades last month, the Los Angeles Fire Department issued an urgent
call for any available personnel to report for possible deployment.

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USDA scientists overseeing bird flu response are laid off
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Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A quarter of the personnel working in nearly 5 dozen
U.S. laboratories trying to solve the latest avian influenza outbreak
have been laid off as part of the Trump administration's plan to
reduce the size of the federal workforce.













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Starmers nuclear reactors wont be small, cheap or popular
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Labour's plan for siting small nuclear reactor plants around the
country (Keir Starmer unveils plan for large nuclear expansion across
England and Wales, 6 February) feels almost like something Donald
Trump would come up with.

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US Asks Europe What Kyiv Peacekeepers Should Do If Attacked -
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The US has asked European nations to spell out what security
guarantees theyre willing to provide Ukraine to ensure a lasting peace
settlement and how allies should react if any troops they deploy were
attacked by Russia.

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The quest to make the perfect toothbrush - WSJ (No paywall)
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Eduardo Jimnez has thousands of toothbrushes. He compliments strangers
on their smiles, then asks them about their dental regime. Family and
friends know not to get him started about their oral habits because he
may not stop.

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Its not just AI. Chinas medicines are surprising the world, too - The
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Keytruda, a cancer-immunotherapy medicine, ranks among the most
lucrative drugs ever sold. Since its launch in 2014 it has raked in
over $130bn in sales for Merck, its American maker, including $29.5bn
last year. In September last year an experimental drug did what none
had done before. In late-stage trials for non-small-cell lung cancer,
it nearly doubled the time patients lived without the
diseaseworseningto 11.1 months, compared with 5.8 months for Keytruda.

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Quantum Simulation Shows How Universe-Destroying Bubbles Could Grow -
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Now for the bad news. Someday, in the far-distant future, eons beyond
its 13.8-billion-year adolescence, the universe could suffer a false
vacuum decay. This would involve a bubble of incomprehensibly
destructive power that would spontaneously materialize and ripple
through spacetime at the speed of light. Such an event would rewrite
the fundamental laws of physics and obliterate our reality in the
equivalent of a cosmic cut-and-paste command.

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Elizabeth Warren Fights to Defend the Consumer Protection Agency She
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More than a decade and a half ago, I watched Elizabeth Warren bring a
crowd in Washington to its feet with a ringing indictment of Wall
Street and the toxic mortgage securities that had pushed the American
banking system to the brink of collapse in the great financial crisis
of 2008. Warren was then a fiftysomething professor at Harvard Law
School, and not very well known. Harry Reid, the Democratic Majority
Leader in the Senate, had recently appointed her to a congressional
panel tasked with examining the seven-hundred-billion-dollar bank
bailout that George W. Bush had signed into law in October, 2008. As
well as lambasting the bankers for their recklessness and greed,
Warren was demanding the creation of a new agency to defend the
interests of mortgage holders, savings depositors, credit-card
holders, and anybody else who was obliged to deal with banks and other
financial companies. In 2010, a Democratic-controlled Congress passed
the Dodd-Frank reform act, which created the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (C.F.P.B). Warren served as an adviser to Barack
Obama and helped to get the new agency up and running.

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The New War on Drugs - Foreign Affairs (No paywall)
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Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum
for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs.
The magazine has featured contributions from many leading
international affairs experts.

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Why the US is freezing as the planet reaches record warmth
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Theres an overwhelming amount of news, but not enough context. At Vox,
we do things differently. Were not focused on being the first to break
stories were focused on helping you understand what actually matters.
We report urgently on the most important issues shaping our world, and
dedicate time to the issues that the rest of the media often neglects.
But we cant do it alone.

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Gamemaker Polymath aims to make learning math as enjoyable as Roblox |
TechCrunch
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Future plans for the game include expanding the curriculum to offer
more advanced learning opportunities and allowing for collaborative
play, where kids can work together on problems. Additionally, Polymath
plans to introduce purchasable avatar assets as a revenue stream in
the future.

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Mistral releases regional model focused on Arabic language and culture
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Due to the company’s European roots, since the release of the
original open-weight Mistral 7B model it has often reiterated that it
takes multi-language support seriously. Saba’s release is a
continuation of that positioning. And Mistral said that it will be
turning its attention to other regional languages down the road.

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Southwest Airlines Plans to Cut 15% of Its Work Force
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Still, the airline, which offers only limited international flights,
is a behemoth: Southwest carries more passengers and operates more
flights in the United States than any other carrier. The airline is
also beloved by fliers, who have routinely given its economy class the
highest customer satisfaction scores of any carrier, according to J.D.
Power, a market research firm.

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Thousands Gather on Presidents' Day to Call Trump a Tyrant
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The major group organizing the protest identified itself as the 50501
movement, a grass roots effort to push back against what it views as
Mr. Trump’s second term “overreach” in reshaping of the
government. Sarah Parker, the executive director of 50501’s member
organization Voices of Florida, said the nationwide protests were
fueled by a Reddit post that was written and commented by those who
were angered from Mr. Trump’s actions and looking for ways to act
upon their frustrations.

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European Leaders Meet to Discuss Ukraine War as Trump Officials
Prepare For Russia Peace Talks
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The meetings with the new U.S. officials sparked fear that the United
States wants to pull thousands of troops out of Europe, as Mr. Hegseth
suggested in Brussels last week, but on a timetable that would leave
Europe vulnerable to an aggressive Russia, and that Mr. Trump will cut
a deal with Mr. Putin over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans.

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Trump's Threats Against Canada Upend Conservative's Playbook
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Mr. Poilievre’s backing by people close to Mr. Trump was always a
double-edged sword in Canada, where the U.S. president is popular
among hardcore conservatives but not among mainstream voters.

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China berates US for changing state department language on Taiwan
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The United States, like most countries, has no formal diplomatic ties
with Taiwan but is its strongest international backer, bound by law to
provide the island with the means to defend itself.

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Allo Allo! Europes leaders get together dans Paris for emergency
sommet | John Crace
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Tusk: I agree. We can no longer assume the US is a reliable member of
Nato. If Trump walks comme un canard, quacks comme un canard, then il
est probablement un canard. He has decided his interests are more
aligned with Russia. He is on the side of dictators. That's why the US
and Russia are busy carving up Ukraine in Saudia Arabia.

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Netanyahu seeks to draw Trump into future attack on Iranian nuclear
sites
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“Iran has been weakened in the region – no doubt about it – but
they still claim to be leading proponents of the Islamic cause who
stand up to western bullying,” he added. “So what might work with
certain countries in Europe or in Latin America will not necessarily
work with the Iranian regime.”

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Kemi Badenoch says western civilisation will be lost if Tory party
fails
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There was laughter when Lord Glasman - who recently appeared on a
podcast hosted by Steve Bannon, the US Republican strategist and
on-off Trump ally - jokingly congratulated the Americans present on
"at last finding a king".

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Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens
fire on them in Miami
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“This just the latest example of the hate targeting the
Palestinian-American community in this country and Palestinians in
their homeland. Policymakers in our nation should stop fomenting the
anti-Palestinian hate that led to the genocide in Gaza and to hate
crimes in America.”

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Trump administration files first supreme court appeal over firing of
government watchdog
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“Since my arrival at OSC last year, I could not be more proud of all
we have accomplished,” Dellinger said in a statement to Politico
last week. “The agency’s work has earned praise from advocates for
whistleblowers, veterans, and others. The effort to remove me has no
factual nor legal basis – none – which means it is illegal.”

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Trump administration begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff
just weeks after fatal Washington DC plane crash - as it happened
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In comments reported by the Associated Press and Reuters, he said
Ukraine won’t take part in US-Russia talks this week on ending the
war and won’t accept the outcome of the talks if Ukraine doesn’t
take part. Speaking to journalists on a conference call from the
United Arab Emirates, Zelenskyy said his government had not been
invited to Tuesday’s planned talks in Saudi Arabia. He said they
would “yield no results”, given the absence of any Ukrainian
officials.

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Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health workers: Trump's health
agency cuts are far-reaching
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There may have also been some reprieves. It was reported that the
Indian Health Service was in line for big cuts; but those had not yet
materialized. Likewise, members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
program, run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had
been warned Friday they were to be fired, but by midday Monday none
had received termination letters.

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At premier science gathering, 'anger, uncertainty, and anxiety' about
the future of research under Trump
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Even those who were more steeped in activism had sympathy for their
colleagues who fear retribution from the current administration that
could result in the loss of funding, or even their jobs, but agreed
they needed scientists to step up even if it was in smaller ways. 

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STAT wins third Polk Award for Health Care's Colossus series
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I pledge to you that we are steadfast in our determination to continue
delivering the most impactful journalism about the political forces,
power brokers, personalities, and technologies that are affecting the
health of every one of us.

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Argentina president accused of fraud over crypto crash
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It said Milei was not involved in the cryptocurrency's development,
and that the government's Anti-Corruption Office would investigate and
determine whether anyone had acted improperly, including the president
himself.

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Meta plans globe-spanning sub-sea internet cable
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Prof Lehdonvirta said the project appeared to diverge from more
established routes, such as by skipping Europe and China and avoiding
"geopolitical hotspots" in the Suez canal and South China sea.

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves' intervention in car loans case rejected
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"It is very unusual for the government to intervene in court decisions
in which it is not directly concerned, especially to pursue policy
issues," said Wayne Gibbard, who leads the automotive finance practice
at law firm Shoosmiths.

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Can the Federal Reserve Look Past Trump's Tariffs?
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Mr. Waller acknowledged that the economic impact of the tariffs could
be larger than anticipated depending on how they are structured and
later put in place. But he suggested that any uptick in prices from
tariffs could be blunted by other policies, which could have
“positive supply effects and put downward pressure on inflation.”

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Washington Post Cancels Ad From Groups Calling for Trump to Fire Musk
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Last month, more than 400 employees sent a letter to Mr. Bezos
requesting a meeting to discuss leadership decisions that they said
“led readers to question the integrity of this institution.”

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The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards
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The national reporting prize went to Katherine Eban, a special
correspondent for Vanity Fair, for “Inside the Bungled Bird Flu
Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health,” which examined
why a key government agency was slow to respond to the bird flu
outbreak.

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California's Push for Electric Trucks Sputters Under Trump
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“It was excessively ambitious,” said Daniel Sperling, a professor
at the University of California, Davis, who specializes in sustainable
transportation, referring to the program that made truckers buy green
rigs.

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Republicans Want Lower Taxes. The Hard Part Is Choosing What to Cut.
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Those changes are the table stakes. They essentially amount to
preserving the status quo. And together they would eat up all but $300
billion of the $4.5 trillion Republicans are giving themselves to cut
taxes. That’s not very much money, considering the ambitions Mr.
Trump and other Republicans have for the bill.

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Why Everyone Is Still Talking About 'Paddington 2'
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All three films are based on the children’s books about the
duffle-coated, hard-staring bear, first published in 1958. In the
first movie, Paddington emigrates from Peru to London in a story
inspired by the World War II rescue operation that brought nearly
10,000 children from Nazi-occupied Europe to England. The second film,
directed by Paul King, who wrote the script with Simon Farnaby, is an
action adventure with stunning set sequences, following Paddington
through a court trial, a prison escape and a daring pursuit by train.

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What Is the Value-Added Tax That Trump So Despises?
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From the 1950s through the 1970s, many countries, led by France,
started experimenting with value-added taxes. Countries in the
European Union were proponents, but VATs have been adopted elsewhere
as well, notably in China.

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