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IMF chief urges countries to do more to curb debt and regulate AI
Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the artificial intelligence boom, heavy borrowing and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the head of the IMF said Wednesday.
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Tropical Storm Isaias forms, is forecast to become a hurricane and hit US Gulf Coast this week
Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters said it was expected to strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before hitting the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.
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California couple arrested on child abuse charges in horrifying surrogacy probe
An extremely wealthy Chinese immigrant and his wife amassed a brood of 21 children through a surrogacy scheme and raised them in a "house of horrors," prosecutors alleged Tuesday.
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Eva Marie Saint, star of ‘North by Northwest’ and ‘On the Waterfront,’ dies
Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first movie, “On the Waterfront,” and starred opposite Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “North by Northwest,” has died.
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Trump says he has call scheduled with Putin to discuss possible case of pneumonic plague in Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case…
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A hearing on Kilmar Ábrego Garcia’s deportation case is abruptly canceled
A hearing for Kilmar Ábrego Garcia which was expected to determine whether the man mistakenly sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador would be deported to Liberia was abruptly canceled Tuesday for reasons that were not immediately clear.
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the ‘biggest regret of my career’ in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from becoming Health and Human Services secretary in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term.
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Paramount completes its takeover of Warner Bros to become one Hollywood giant known as Skydance
It’s official: Skydance-owned Paramount closed its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, ushering in a new Hollywood behemoth.
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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after Tennessee failed execution, her attorneys say
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking at a hospital, her lawyers said Tuesday, six days after the state's failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection left her unconscious and on a ventilator.
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Student loan borrowers have more time to reduce their interest rate. Here’s what to know
Student loan borrowers now have until the end of 2026 to enroll in auto pay and have their interest rate reduced by 1%.
