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An under-the-radar, Trump-approved deal could create a broadcasting behemoth that controls local news stations across more than forty states. Why do some MAGA diehards oppose it?

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Scientists define the stages of life in biological, societal, and chronological terms—but none of them quite capture what ...

Under pressure from interrogators, a teen-ager helped send three of his friends to prison for murder. How could he ever make ...

Martini garnish: five letters.

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His rise was connected to so many aspects of modern American life, from reality television and information technology to ...

A new book asserts that we all might learn something from fetishists, who exist in playful surrender to the things that they covet.

Silicon Valley had grown to resent the mainstream media. Two tech insiders decided to build their own version of it.