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Researchers who have tested Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 say their hacking capabilities are a “game-changer.”

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A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

From California to Dhaka, the deal between humans and work is ending.

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The Vermont independent’s long-running campaign to block arms sales is demonstrating a sea change in the Senate Democratic Caucus.

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered an attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration.

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The US military is sending roughly 2,500 Marines and at least one extra warship to the Middle East, according to an AP source who spoke on condition of anonymity.