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How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
Jeffrey Epstein is dead. His ideas aren’t — and he made sure to spread them to a lot of influential people before he died.
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The Verge Awards at CES 2026
Rollable laptops, twice-folding phones, and a ‘longevity station.’ This is the CES tech that deserves an award.
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The best tech announced at CES 2026 so far
Smart lights that know where they’re placed in a room, wild designs for next-gen routers, and a glowing inedible donut.
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A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans…
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
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You Could Be Next
Over the last few years, a new type of AI company has emerged, like Mercor and Surge AI, staffed by and large by former white-collar workers, including former lawyers, scientists, copywriters, and…
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Apple MacBook Neo review: Can a Mac get by with an iPhone’s processor inside?
8GB of RAM is a bummer, but this $599 laptop cuts most of the right corners.
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‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab
After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nine months later – but that wasn’t the end of her ordeal
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Epstein files: Trump, Howard Lutnick, Steve Tisch among prominent names that appear in latest Justice Department release
Emails released by the DOJ showed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick apparently visited Epstein's island for lunch years after he claimed to have cut off ties.
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Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me
Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra on the difference between attribution and impersonation — and what AI companies should owe creators.
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Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’
Innocent people are being frozen out of basic banking services – and it all traces back to reforms rushed through after 9/11
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Film Technica: Our top picks for the best films of 2025
Streamers made a strong showing this year, as did horror. Big tentpoles, superhero sagas mostly fell flat.
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Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot
In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there
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ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Tom Homan arrived in the Twin Cities to announce a winding down of immigration enforcement. But the battle has merely moved from the streets to the underground, and the city remains under siege.
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US not trying to dismantle Nato or undermine world order, says ambassador – Europe live
Matthew Whittaker, the US ambassador to Nato, responds to criticism in the Munich Security Conference report
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Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?
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What it was like to watch grieving parents stare down Mark Zuckerberg in court
As Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a high-profile social media addiction case in a Los Angeles court, parent advocates waited for coveted seats inside.
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Spain tells of ‘surprise’ at Merz’s White House comments over Trump’s trade threats – Europe live
Spanish foreign minister says ‘I can’t imagine Merkel or Scholz making statements like that’ after German chancellor appears to support US president
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My mom, the cult leader: ‘She told us what to wear, when to pray, how we would have sex. We were prisoners’
Deborah Green was a charismatic woman who established a ‘free love ministry’ in California, claiming to be a vessel for God. She was also a controlling, cruel sadist.
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‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death
On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved…
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‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: Labour MP Naz Shah on the day she and her mother were arrested for murder
The politician was 18 when she and her mum were hauled off to a police station for the killing of the man she’d considered an uncle. What happened next would shape her future.
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Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan
It’s one thing to remove a PM from office, as happened to the former cricketer in 2022. But it’s another thing to try to eradicate the most famous person in Pakistan’s history
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A rope was the miners’ lifeline to the surface. Then it stopped moving
Deep underground, artisanal miners face a fight for survival when a police operation cuts off their only lifeline.
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My fitness tracker is a secret weapon against my chronic illness
Disabled folks are using their devices to manage long Covid, POTS, and more — and it’s working
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‘Americans have died’: calls mount for Trump to fire Kristi Noem after deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good – US politics live
Democratic senator John Fetterman, who has defended some of Trump’s border policy, joins calls for Noem to go, saying she is ‘betraying DHS’s core mission’
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Robert Jenrick sacked by Kemi Badenoch over ‘clear evidence he was plotting to defect’ – UK politics live
‘I have sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership with immediate effect,’ Tory leader says
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A decade of Star Trek-themed fart jokes: The Greatest Generation podcast turns 10
How two podcasters turned a Star Trek side project into a full-time career.
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Top Democrat defends State of the Union protests as House speaker says he nearly ejected Omar and Tlaib – live
Chuck Schumer says Democrats were right not to stand for Trump; Mike Johnson criticizes congresswomen’s verbal protests during speech
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So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it
Some semi-unhinged musings on where LLMs fit into my life—and how I'll keep using them.
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I was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be
My experience of court was eye-opening. And when I sat in on other cases, I realised how often mothers are vilified
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity
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‘I clicked on a button – and everything changed’: how a DNA test turned my life upside-down
When I found out my father had been adopted, I was curious to know more about his side of the family.
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Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?
Ars speaks with linguistics professor Dr. Betty Birner about the ease with which Grace and Rocky communicate.
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A Hollywood ‘heir’ levied horrific abuse claims against four industry titans. How did he end up in prison?
Rovier Carrington thought his cases against MTV and Paramount executives should have been the biggest of the #MeToo era. Instead, they raised unsettling questions about victimhood
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Stock markets plunge after oil surges over $100 a barrel, wiping out hopes of UK interest rate cut – business live
Finance ministers from G7 countries resist pressure to release emergency oil stocks at video call today
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Forbes World’s Billionaires List: The Top 200
It was a record year for billionaire wealth.
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My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune
The mad venture – which my mother nicknamed ‘your father’s ego’ – would swallow my childhood. Years later I went on a quest to understand what really happened to his glittering folly
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Rich And Powerful In The New Epstein Files: New Files Released With Trump Allegations
The files include email exchanges with Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick and other billionaire associates.
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‘I don’t have to create his legacy, I just have to protect it’: Chadwick Boseman’s widow Simone on grieving a global star – and guarding his secrets
Black Panther made him a megastar, but in private the actor and his wife Simone Ledward Boseman were dealing with his terminal cancer diagnosis.
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Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.
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Winter Olympics 2026: Vonn crashes out, Johnson wins downhill gold, snowboarding and more – live
Latest news and updates | Vonn airlifted away after crash
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100 clergy members arrested at Minneapolis airport amid protests over ICE immigration surge – live
Labor unions and progressive organizations have called on workers across the state to stay home in an ‘economic blackout’
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Trump says Cuba is ‘going to fall pretty soon’ after White House comments – live
President tells CNN country is going to ‘fall’ after earlier in the week claiming Cuba ‘wants to make a deal so badly’
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ForbesBLK 50: Money Masters
The second BLK 50 list features the most powerful and wealthiest Black Americans in alternative investments and introduces two new billionaires.
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Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation
Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls
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Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher
Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civilians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened
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DHS says it will appeal to supreme court as judge blocks end of TPS for Haitians – US politics live
Assistant secretary calls judge’s decision ‘lawless activism’ as she orders halt on expiration of Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Haitian immigrants
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Greenland’s security ‘firmly’ belongs in Nato, says prime minister, after latest Trump threats to take over territory – as it happened
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The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers
As AI job losses rise in the professional sector, many are switching to more traditional trades. But how do they feel about accepting lower pay – and, in some cases, giving up their vocation?
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