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The names of Alibaba (BABA), Baidu (BIDU), and BYD (OTCPK:BYDDF) were suggested by the Pentagon to be included in the list of Chinese military companies, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing a ...

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Mr. Toobin is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of “The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy.” Donald Trump has enemies. Richard Nixon had a list of them. The differences in how these ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced it will add more than 5,000 new words and 1,000 new phrases when the 12th edition of the Collegiate Dictionary hits bookshelves on Nov. 18 — marking its first new ...

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday warned that the poor quality of civics education means Americans may not know the difference between a president and a king. Sotomayor bemoaned ...

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Class is back in session at Hogwarts. The actors playing Harry Potter and Hagrid in HBO’s new series were spotted filming for the first time in London on Monday. Dominic McLaughlin, 11, got into ...