China now depends almost entirely on its own online content providers, as the number of big foreign companies in the market, such as Yahoo and LinkedIn, keeps dwindling, giving the government a boost in controlling the internet, analysts say.
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Creativity can be a messy process. Great ideas and inspiration don’t come easily on command, or in any organized way
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Will Smith is sharing a more vulnerable side of himself in his new memoir Will, including how he "fell in love" with his Six Degrees of Separation costar Stockard Channing during his first marriage
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A self-described hacking group calling itself Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice) has leaked confidential documents to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda that appear to reveal the plight of prisoners at Evin prison, Iran’s most notorious facility.
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Extreme weather events are occurring more and more frequently, with severe consequences for people and the environment.
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The U.S. government has added four foreign technology companies to its restricted companies list, saying they "developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments" and that the spyware was used "to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers."
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Russia's military buildup along its border with Ukraine is not yet setting off any alarms in Washington
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A Pentagon report warns that China’s rapidly growing nuclear arsenal is expanding at a much faster pace than estimated just a year ago, while a new Chinese military modernization goal could provide Beijing with “more credible military operations in Taiwan.”
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No in-person school. Isolation from friends. Lost rites of passage like graduation ceremonies. The COVID-19 pandemic upended the lives of many children in the United States.
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