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Kansas enacts statewide ban on student cell phones
Kansas has enacted HB 2299, a statewide law banning personal cell phones and similar devices for K‑12 students during the school day, signed by…
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Italian police recover three stolen paintings near Parma
Carabinieri officers from the Parma Provincial Command and the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit recovered three paintings stolen from the Magnani…
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U.S. retail sales fall as tax refund boost fades
U.S. retail sales unexpectedly declined 0.6% in July, the largest monthly drop since May 2025, reversing a revised 0.2% gain. The report attributes…
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Xtep to launch 160X 8.0 marathon shoe series
Xtep will globally launch its flagship 160X 8.0 marathon shoe series on August 21, with the top-tier 160X 8.0 Ultra featuring the new GT1200 premium…
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Dangote refinery plans October IPO to broaden Nigerian ownership
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has submitted an application for a roughly $5 billion initial public offering to Nigeria's securities regulator as part of…
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Thai schools tighten bag checks after deadly shooting
Students at a Bangkok primary school now undergo systematic bag and pocket checks after a deadly Aug 7 attack in which a 14-year-old killed his…
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Supertankers go dark to transit Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb
Supertankers are prolonging periods of going dark by turning off automatic tracking to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb…
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Pony.ai and Uber plan deployment of 2,000 robotaxis across Europe
Pony.ai and Uber announced an expanded strategic partnership to collaborate on deploying more than 2,000 Pony.ai Robotaxis across Europe, building on…
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Artists stage benefit concert to aid Colombia and Venezuela quake victims
More than 30 international artists will perform at Unidos por los Nuestros on Aug. 16 at Miami’s Kaseya Center to raise funds for communities hit by…
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Paramount Skydance offers CNN sale to clear merger
Paramount Skydance Corp. said it could sell CNN if that helps resolve an antitrust lawsuit that is blocking its planned $110 billion merger with…
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Silver Lake in talks to acquire Workday
Silver Lake has held confidential talks in recent months to acquire Workday, a human-resources and financial management software company with a…
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Apple hires Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs
Apple has appointed Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs, with his start date on August 31 and a reporting line to Jennifer Newstead…
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Global Citizen announces performers for 2026 Central Park festival
Global Citizen announced its 2026 festival lineup and goals for the Sept. 26 event on New York's Central Park Great Lawn, with Lauryn Hill and Wyclef…
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University of Michigan to cover first-semester grades
The University of Michigan's largest college is developing a pilot that will show first-semester grades as pass or no credit on external transcripts…
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Golar signs EPC deal for fourth FLNG vessel
Golar LNG has signed an engineering, procurement and construction agreement with Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore to build its fourth floating LNG…
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Hundreds of private colleges face closure
The USA TODAY Excerpt episode examined the growing wave of small private college closures after Sterling College in Vermont shut in May. A Huron…
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Antofagasta cuts 2026 copper forecast, earnings rise
Antofagasta's shares fell about 5% in early London trading after the company lowered its 2026 copper output forecast to 625,000–655,000 tonnes…
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Nigeria rolls out university UniPods to commercialize research
The federal ministry of education, working with UNDP and Tech4Dev, plans to deploy about 41 University Innovation Pods (UniPods) across Nigerian…
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German ministers clash over river engineering or restoration
Germany's heat wave has lowered water levels on the Rhine, Danube, Elbe and other rivers, revealing sandbanks and severely disrupting cargo shipping…
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PFL finalizes Tampa lineup with Cyborg defending featherweight title
The Professional Fighters League finalized the Aug. 22 PFL Tampa card at Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Florida, with Cris Cyborg defending…
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Hollywood unions urge settlement in Paramount‑Skydance antitrust case
Leaders of the Directors Guild of America and IATSE asked California attorney general Rob Bonta and Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison to negotiate…
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Codelco expects lower copper output this year
Codelco expects to produce less copper this year, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Chilean state-owned miner grapples with…
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EBU can reassign Eurovision hosting duties
The European Broadcasting Union has updated Eurovision rules to allow it to reassign hosting duties away from a winning broadcaster if that…
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U.S. to withdraw forces from Iraq by Sept. 30
U.S. forces are on track to complete a full withdrawal from Iraq by Sept. 30, officials said, ending a presence that began with the 2003 invasion…
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