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The seventy-two-year-old Fed chairman put to shame the heads of law firms, universities, and public companies who have caved ...

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In 2014, Koum and Acton sold the app to Meta (then Facebook), and WhatsApp has kept growing. I caught up with Knight to ...

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A former D.H.S. oversight official on what, legally, the agency can and can’t do—and the accountability mechanisms that have been “gutted beyond recognition.” ...

Kristen Stewart’s first feature, based on a memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, packs great emotional power into its boldly original ...

When Musk took over the platform, he wasn’t wrong for identifying child pornography as a problem the company needed to ...

After the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro, some residents fear that one unelected despot has been swapped for another.

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In the Great Smoky Mountains, an auxiliary team of élite outdoorsmen answers the call when park-goers’ hikes, climbs, and ...