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In August 2024, scholars at a Xiamen-based think tank published a paper urging Beijing to immediately establish a shadow Taiwan government on the Chinese mainland in preparation for a full takeover of ...

MADISON (WKOW) — Madison and Dane County parks are waiving permit requirements for disc golf, dog parks and lake access on June 6 and 7. The city's Parks Division announced the free weekend allows ...

A Chinese lawyer who fatally poisoned the billionaire gaming tycoon who helped produce the Netflix sci-fi hit “3 Body Problem” has been executed, according to Chinese state media. Xu Yao killed his ...

The Iran conflict obviously resists simple solutions. The war should not be treated as a conventional policy or military problem, but as a “wicked problem” in which the system continually changes in ...

Forget about the $25 billion. That’s the estimate the Pentagon has tentatively picked for the direct cost of the Iran conflict, a sum that analysts consider laughably lowballed. The true expense of ...

3 Body Problem seasons 2 and 3 may not feature one actor from season 1. Based on the novel by Liu Cixin, the sci-fi Netflix series from creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo released ...

The New York Times' Maggie Haberman suggested on Wednesday that Donald Trump appears increasingly frustrated with his Iran war and is now eager to move on. But she then highlighted a major problem for ...

Paul Sankey, president of Sankey Research, warned that jet fuel has become the “most immediate problem” stemming from the ongoing Iran war, with prices surging to $200 per barrel even as crude oil ...

For years, Fox News has had a remarkably straightforward business model. Find out what the audience wants to hear, tell them that, and when in doubt, follow Donald Trump. It worked spectacularly — ...

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