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Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen on Wednesday urged China to persuade Russia to end the war in Ukraine and warned that staying on the sidelines… Read More »Yellen calls on China to force Russia to end war in Ukraine.
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PARIS (AP) – French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen warned Wednesday against sending more weapons to Ukraine, and called for rapprochement between NATO and… Read More »France’s Le Pen warns against sending weapons to Ukraine
iStock/Getty Images Plus More than 200 longtime Wikipedia editors have asked the Wikimedia Foundation to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations. The foundation received crypto donations worth… Read More »Wikipedia Community Votes to Stop Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations
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Over the past two years, the pandemic has provided us with many works of art that have attempted to definitively capture humanity’s struggles. There was… Read More »In Elden Ring, the battle feels real
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Jimmy Kimmel began a scathing removal on Tuesday of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who said at a church this weekend that he has not… Read More »Jimmy Kimmel says ‘prostitute’ Tucker Carlson just told his sickest lie yet
WASHINGTON — President Biden announced a plan on Tuesday to suspend a summer ban on sales of higher-ethanol gasoline blends, a move White House officials… Read More »Biden allows higher ethanol E15 gas to be sold all summer
