Are Mexican drug cartels as powerful as people think?
Academic Oswaldo Zavala has pushed back at the notion that Mexico's drug cartels are all-powerful, arguing that they could not…
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Supreme Court keeps on hold Biden’s scaled-down plan to reduce student loan debt
The Supreme Court temporarily sides with Republican states who said Biden overstepped his authority by reducing student loan debt. ...
Singer Taeil is leaving K-pop group NCT over sex-crime allegation
South Korean singer Taeil is leaving the K-pop group NCT after being 'accused of a criminal case related to sex…
Summer travel is fueling California’s COVID surge. Labor Day will be big test
The rate at which coronavirus tests are coming back positive continues to rise in California. ...
Mexico’s president announces ‘pause’ in relationship with U.S. Embassy after criticism from ambassador
Andrés Manuel López Obrador says Mexico's communications with U.S. and Canadian embassies are 'on pause' after ambassadors criticized his plan…
Biden eked out a win over Trump in Georgia in 2020. Can a surging Harris do the same?
Poll averages show Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in Georgia by less than 1 percentage point, suggesting either could win.…
Trump’s foreign strategy still rests heavily on courting autocrats
Trump and his allies have continued to court foreign autocrats, including several who would likely not get such treatment in…
Opinion: Don’t believe Trump’s politicking about Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal
Predictions that President Biden's withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan three years ago would be disastrous for U.S. national security have…
How much more water and power does AI computing demand? Tech firms don’t want you to know
Every query on Chat GPT or another artificial intelligence app requires extraordinary amounts of electricity and water. Users have no…