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By the time the novelist David Lodge died on January 1 at the age of 89, the obituaries had long been written, gathering dust and occasional updates in the as-needed folder on the desktops of magazine and newspaper editors. And when they were published in the days after New Year’s, they struck an amazingly similar
The prime minister of Greenland said he welcomes talks with President-elect Donald Trump over Greenland’s future. Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute Egede has expressed readiness to hold talks with President-elect Donald Trump over the president-elect’s expressions of interest in acquiring Greenland on the premise of security imperatives for the United States and its allies. Egede made
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Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is moving away from third-party fact-checking organizations to a Community Notes user-based fact-checking model. President Joe Biden has shared his disapproval at Meta’s decision to do away with its current social media fact-checking program. This week Meta, which owns the Facebook and Instagram social media platforms, announced it would
Federal law requires special counsels to prepare a final report outlining their prosecution decisions and submit it to the attorney general. Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Department of Justice (DOJ), prosecutors revealed in a court filing, with the announcement marking an end to Smith’s role spearheading two investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.