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Judge Orders DOJ to Name Everyone Who Has Seen the Boat-Strike Memo
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Germany Arrests Ex-Spy Chief Hanning Over 2,000 Leaked BND Files
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Executive Brief: Bondi Used Grandmother’s Name as DOJ Email Alias
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Medicine Nobel: How a Light-Chasing Alga Became a Switch for the Brain
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Declassified FBI Logs Show Plasmic Echo Tracked Wiles’s Phone Contacts
Declassified FBI records show agents logged Susie Wiles’s phone contacts in 2023 minute by minute, including calls with Trump’s lawyers and with reporters.
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SpaceXAI Skips NYC Council Subpoena as AI Firms Testify Under Oath
Musk’s SpaceXAI defied a New York City Council subpoena as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testified under oath on AI risks and 10 proposed bills.
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PRIMA: NASA’s Next Telescope and the Rival That Never Got Judged
NASA picked the PRIMA far-infrared telescope as its first Probe mission. Its X-ray rival, AXIS, was ruled out in March before its study was ever reviewed.