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Congress had budgeted at least $690 million on pro-democracy programs this year to counter nations considered the world's ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

Gaza has been decimated by Israeli bombing campaigns and ground assaults since Hamas carried out the October 7 attacks on Israel in 2023, in which more than 1,200 people were killed and 250 were taken ...

Worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting U.S. stocks. The S&P 500 sank 1.4% in early Monday trading ...

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Chipmaker Nvidia saw almost $600bn wiped off its market value - the biggest drop in US stock market history - as a low-cost AI competitor from China took chunks out of several tech firms.

As of 2025, more than 7,000 languages are spoken across the world. However, only about half of them are properly documented, ...

If you speak multiple languages, you've probably had the experience of thinking or dreaming in a language that's not your native tongue. I learned some French in high school, and I'll occasionally ...