Opinion

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No More Web Links: Google Rolls Out Search Tool that Only Provides AI Answers

Google has begun testing a new AI-powered search tool called “AI Mode” that provides users with artificial intelligence-generated answers rather than traditional web links.

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SpaceX Starship megarocket upper stage lost again during 8th test flight; booster catch is successful

After a failed mission in January, SpaceX on Thursday launched its eighth suborbital flight test of its fully integrated Starship megarocket, a combination of the ship's upper stage (S34) and the Super Heavy booster (B15), at Starbase in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.

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Automakers get 1-month tariff exemption, White House says

U.S. automakers who comply with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) are getting a one-month exemption from the Trump administration’s tariffs that went into effect Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Wednesday. 

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U.S.-to-Mexico flight diverts to Texas after 'security concern'

The plane, headed from the Minneapolis area to Mazatlán, landed without incident, and all the passengers got off safely, Sun Country Airlines said.

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  • Source: Express
  • 03/05/2025
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JD Vance demolished by Nick Ferrari before US Vice President rows back on Britain attack

Broadcaster Nick Ferrari has savaged the US Vice President after his claims that the UK was some "random country who has not fought a war for 30 or 40 years."

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RFK Affirms Measles Vaccine But Says Decision to Vaccinate is ‘Personal’

Amid the worst measles outbreak in the United States in a decade, vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, has affirmed that vaccines protect children.

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Canadian Premier Threatens to Cut Off Energy to U.S. Amid Trade War: 'With a Smile on My Face'

Ford, whose province supplies power to New York, Michigan, and Minnesota, also threatened to halt nickel shipments to the United States

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Head of FBI in New York forcibly resigns in latest shakeup at the bureau under Trump administration

The head of the FBI in New York forcibly resigned Monday in the latest high-level shakeup at the bureau under the Trump administration.

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Southbound Delta flight diverts back to Boston after 'smoky odor' detected in cabin

The flight was supposed to land in New Orleans three hours after takeoff

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Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Its Loathsome AI Overviews

Google is being sued by Chegg — yes, the barely-hanging-on company that has furnished many a college student with homework answers and cheap textbooks— over its infamously shoddy AI Overviews, Reuters reports.

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Xi affirms 'no limits' partnership with Putin in call on Ukraine war anniversary

China's President Xi Jinping reaffirmed his "no limits" partnership in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, China's state media reported, on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Elon Musk Faces Massive Lawsuit After Menacing Email Ultimatum

Elon Musk sent an email to every federal worker asking them to explain their accomplishments. He got sued instead.

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Report: U.S. Probes UnitedHealth’s Medicare Billing Processes

A probe into UnitedHealth’s Medicare billing processes in recent months has begun, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, pushing the healthcare conglomerate’s shares nearly 12 percent lower.

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  • Source: NPR
  • 02/24/2025
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Trump officials will put 4,700 USAID employees on leave and eliminate 1,600 jobs

The Trump administration is putting nearly all of USAID's 4,700 full-time employees on paid administrative leave at midnight Sunday and will subsequently terminate 1,600 of those positions as part of a "reduction in force," according to a memo that was widely distributed to agency staff Sunday afternoon and later published on the USAID website.

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Vaccine targeting pancreatic cancer shows promise in new study of clinical trial

When a routine scan led to Barbara Brigham's pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2020, all she could think about was how she wanted more time. Her husband had just passed away. She loved her local library job. Her three children were still growing their own families. 

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Mexico awaits new response from Google on Gulf dispute

Mexico said Monday it's awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit.