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THE NEW YORK TIMES: There is also a technical problem with telling AI systems how to behave. Namely, they don’t always listen.

The chat-bot culture wars are here

THE NEW YORK TIMES: There is also a technical problem with telling AI systems how to behave. Namely, they don’t always listen.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Elizabeth Castillo wasn’t an activist until Immigration and Customs Enforcement started taking away her neighbours.

When ICE comes knocking

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Elizabeth Castillo wasn’t an activist until Immigration and Customs Enforcement started taking away her neighbours.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: What is the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’?

What is the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Hundreds of millions of people live along its path — in giant cities and in isolated towns — tethered by a common geological fate forged by tectonic forces churning deep beneath their feet.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: The future of freedom will be American or it will not be at all.

The future of freedom is American

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The refuges are illusory, the alternatives are compromised or weak, and the future of freedom will be American or it will not be at all.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: What the science says on whether you really need those electrolyte drinks when exercising and otherwise.

Do you really need to drink electrolytes?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: What the science says on whether you really need those electrolyte drinks when exercising and otherwise.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: In the 1980s, America’s two biggest soft drink companies raced for another milestone: to serve the first fizzy drink in orbit.

When Coke and Pepsi fought for soft drink supremacy in space

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In the 1980s, America’s two biggest soft drink companies raced for another milestone: to serve the first fizzy drink in orbit.

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Apple will close a store in northeastern China in August

Tech giant Apple’s first store closure in China

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Apple will close a store in northeastern China in August, the first time it has shuttered one of its retail locations since it opened its first outlet in the country in 2008.

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A lone gunman who attacked an office building in Manhattan is dead, New York Police say. (AP PHOTO)

‘Mind blowing’: New details on NYC shooter revealed

The gunman who killed four people and then himself inside a Manhattan office building had arrived in New York City just hours before.

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As male social circles shrink, female partners say they have to meet more social and emotional needs.

Why women are weary of the emotional labour of ‘mankeeping’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Men’s partners have become their unofficial therapists and some say it is ‘ruining’ dating and driving women to celibacy.

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Recently, a new kind of motor has started to ease the crush of engines in Nepal.

The country where 76 per cent of cars sold are electric

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Sleek electric vehicles glide by with a quiet hum. Gleaming showrooms do a brisk business in the latest models, and highways are lined with rest stop cafes for drivers to pass the time.

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A man is facing numerous charges after allegedly setting up a fake 'embassy' in New Delhi.

What does it take to make your own embassy?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: There are more than 100 diplomatic missions based in India’s capital, New Delhi. What does it take to set up your own?

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When extinction is a possibility for both parrot and parasite, that relationship warrants further investigation.

The parrot, its parasites and a struggle to avoid extinction

THE NEW YORK TIMES: When extinction is a possibility for both parrot and parasite, that relationship warrants further investigation.

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One answer to steel overproduction is to simply make less, but no country wants to be the one to stop.

The world has too much steel but no one will stop making it

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Excess steel production is estimated to reach 721 million tons by 2027. One answer to overproduction is to simply make less steel, but no country wants to be the one to stop.

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FILE — Hulk Hogan addresses the final night of the Republican National Convention, at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, on Thursday, July 18, 2024. Hogan, whose flamboyance and star power helped transform professional wrestling from a low-budget regional attraction into a multibillion dollar industry, has died at 71, the New York Times reported on July 24, 2025. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)

Shirt-shredding superstar of wrestling Hulk Hogan dead at 71

Hogan was the face of pro wrestling for decades, with his blond hair and horseshoe mustache, colourful bandannas and massive biceps, which he referred to as “24-inch pythons.”

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FILE — Workers on a production line at an electric-vehicle factory in Chongqing, China, May 20, 2025. European Union officials are set for a summit with China’s top leaders. China’s support of Russia and a long list of trade disputes are on the agenda.(Gilles Sabrié/The New York Times)

How a Chinese border town keeps Russia’s economy afloat

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Much of the trade between China and Russia has long run through a key border town with the economic slogan ‘Russian supply, Chinese processing’.

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