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    Jul 18

    Military-grade Israeli spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives and the fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a global investigation finds.

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  2. 28 minutes ago

    Cleveland residents look to take police reform into their own hands

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    With the Closing Ceremonies complete, here’s a look back at the most impactful firsts of the Tokyo Olympics.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Public health experts urge local mask and vaccine requirements as schools reopen across the country

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Toddler turns pitch invader, forces mom to sprint after him during MLS match

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  6. 2 hours ago

    Taliban fighters overrun Kunduz city, the latest in a series of strategic gains for the militants

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  7. 3 hours ago

    The infrastructure bill is in part stalled as negotiations proceed on how closely to regulate the crypto industry.

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  8. 3 hours ago

    Legal U.S. marijuana is pouring into Mexico. It’s pricey, popular and has names like “Bubba Kush.”

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  9. 4 hours ago

    Dawn Staley and Sue Bird make sure their final USA Basketball moment is golden

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  10. 4 hours ago

    The heat withered the Olympic marathon field. And then there was Eliud Kipchoge.

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  11. 5 hours ago

    For first time, average pay for supermarket and restaurant workers tops $15 an hour

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  12. 5 hours ago

    “Pops, I didn’t do it”: The heartbreak of Richard Torrez Jr. over the gold medal he didn’t win

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  13. 5 hours ago

    Where he will play next is not yet official, but Lionel Messi put the only team he has played for behind him Sunday, saying goodbye to Barcelona in a tearful news conference in Camp Nou stadium.

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  14. 6 hours ago

    Olympic magic cut through the pandemic gloom, but the Tokyo Games’ legacy is complex

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  15. 6 hours ago

    On the day she gave her speech, Chory had only her faith that the idea was possible — and her conviction that it had to be done. “We’re going to make plants better,” she said, her lips twitching into a smile. “And we’re going to end up saving the world.”

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  16. 6 hours ago

    Jennifer Aniston and other celebrities endorse vaccines. Experts say their pleas may not help.

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  17. 6 hours ago

    She wanted to create “ideal plants,” bred to store huge amounts of carbon in their roots. If enough farmers replanted their fields with them, she said, they could pull as much as 20% of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans out of the atmosphere each year.

    Chory inspects tomato plants in a greenhouse at the Salk Institute.
    Postdoctoral fellow Nicole Gibbs collects samples at the lab.
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  18. 6 hours ago

    FOMO in the U.K., sausages in Germany, Dracula’s Castle in Romania: Countries dangle covid vaccine incentives

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  19. 6 hours ago

    The illness was getting worse. With the world teetering toward disaster, she decided, there was only one thing she wanted to do with the days she had left. She laid out a vision for a new kind of agriculture.

    "It was so obvious that she was an incredibly original thinker and someone who is very brave - to do things that other people would consider too hard, too weird, too ambitious," said Jennifer Nemhauser, a professor at the University of Washington.
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  20. 7 hours ago

    She knew survival would depend on plants, Earth’s original carbon-capture machines. And her urgency came not only from what was happening around her, but from the fight within her. Chory had been living with Parkinson’s disease for more than a decade.

    "I would like for my kids to be thinking that I did something important for their world," said Joanne Chory.
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  21. 7 hours ago

    The world was running out of time, and so was Joanne Chory. At a glitzy Silicon Valley awards ceremony, the renowned biologist seized the chance to issue a warning: Human-caused climate change was putting humanity’s future in peril.

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