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Emily Damari, one of the hostages released from captivity in Gaza following the ceasefire agreement started between Israel and Hamas, arrives at Sheba Hospital near Tel Aviv on January 19.

‘I came back alive’: Israeli hostages give glimpse of ordeal

Israeli hostages released as part of the cease fire agreement have begun to give accounts of their horrific ordeal at the hands of Hamas. But their stories are tinged with hope for the future.

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Taylor Swift is in New Orleans to support boyfriend Travis Kelce.

How Taylor Swift tried to dress for success at Super Bowl

In New Orleans to support her boyfriend Travis Kelce, the mega-star matched her game-day ’fit to the Chiefs’ game-day uniform.

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The real lesson of DeepSeek is that America’s approach to AI safety and regulations — the concerns espoused by both the Biden and Trump administrations, as well as by many AI companies — was largely nonsense.

The dangerous AI nonsense that Trump and Biden fell for

The real lesson of DeepSeek is that America’s approach to AI safety and regulations — the concerns espoused by both the Biden and Trump administrations, as well as by many AI companies — was largely nonsense.

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Donald Trump greeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrived for bilateral talks.

Trump’s plan to ‘own’ Gaza adds to his imperial aspirations

THE NEW YORK TIMES: When it came to the Gaza Strip, Trump’s thinking on Tuesday was so far outside the box that it was not clear he even knew there was a box.

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The University of California is being sued after increasing diversity among the student population.

University of California sued for increasing diversity

Over the past few months, University of California officials have boasted that they have admitted the most racially diverse class ever to their sprawling system. Now they’re facing a lawsuit.

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With Canada, Mexico, China, Colombia and the Middle East, President Trump has wasted no time threatening to use American might to force recalcitrant countries to back down and do what he wants.

Trump favours blunt force in dealing with allies and enemies

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Soft power is out. Hard power is in. Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has demonstrated that he prefers to bludgeon, not bargain, his way to foreign policy goals.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: the US relationship with Russia is at its worst since the Cold War. What went awry?

A secret cable and where US-Russia relations went wrong

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The US relationship with Russia is at its worst since the Cold War. What went awry?

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President Gustavo Petro of Colombia.

Inside Colombia’s crisis over Trump’s deportations

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Experts say Donald Trump’s hard-line response to Gustavo Petro may have a chilling effect on other leaders in the region as they weigh their own actions.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose relationship was always the subject of mystery and psychodrama in the first Trump term, are at it again.

New agenda emerges as Trump and Putin circle each other

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose relationship was always the subject of mystery and psychodrama in the first Trump term, are at it again.

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Two U.S. companies teamed up to treat cancer patients using an unproven blood filter in Antigua, out of reach of American regulators. Then patients began dying.

A startup claimed it could cure cancer. Then patients died

Two US companies teamed up to treat cancer patients using an unproven blood filter in Antigua, out of reach of American regulators. Then things took a tragic twist.

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President Donald trump takes questions from reporters during a press conference at the White House.

Trump orders trans female inmates to move to male prisons

President Donald Trump has ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition.

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Donald Trump’s appearance at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville back in July was part of the now-President’s journey to freeing Ross Ulbricht.

Inside Donald Trump’s pardon of an online drug kingpin

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s pardon was not an obvious agenda item for Donald Trump. Here’s the inside story of how he was persuaded to free the Bitcoin pioneer.

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Donald Trump has ordered the end of diversity policy in government departments.

‘Discrimination’: Trump axes government diversity policy

Donald Trump has ordered that officials tasked with overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across federal agencies be placed on administrative leave and that all initiatives be brought to a halt.

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.

The Israeli right may soon be disenchanted with Trump

BRET STEPHENS: The most interesting detail of the Israeli and Hamas hostage and ceasefire deal isn’t in its terms, which mainly resemble what’s been on the table for months, it’s the way the deal was secured.

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President Joe Biden greets the crowd before delivering  remarks about his foreign policy, at the State Department in Washington on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025

Biden promotes foreign policy in his final week in office

President Joe Biden kicked off his final week in office with a robust defence of his foreign policy, arguing in a speech that America had grown stronger on his watch and had ‘the wind at our back’.

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