Elon Musk's Grok chatbot ranks him as world history’s greatest human

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This isn’t the first time the chatbot has taken a colorful detour from the path of conventional wisdom.

Trump HIV prevention plan shuts out South Africa — the nation most affected

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South Africa has about one-fifth of the global population of people living with HIV and historically has received the largest share of U. S. funding for HIV prevention. ...

Trump offers measured response after missing out on Nobel Prize

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Machado has praised Trump in kind, and in a follow-up to her initial post on X, she dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize “to the suffering people of Venezuela and to ...

Parents are bringing back the landline

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The Tin Can has been transformative for her children, ages 5 and 8.

Minister halts trophy hunting quotas amid industry dispute

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The hunting of iconic species, such as endangered rhinos, is facing a backlash from animal-rights activists.

Shelter dog alerts man he is about to have a seizure

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Scientific studies have found both trained and untrained pet dogs can detect seizures, mainly using their sense of smell.

South Africa borrowed $1.5 billion for infrastructure development

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The loan is to fund Eskom and Transnet

A Kansas family farm, barely getting by, grapples with Trump’s cuts

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The young couple had taken a 10 percent hit when the Trump administration abruptly cut $1 billion from two programs that supplied local produce and meat to schools ...

Watch: Trump confronts Ramaphosa, pushing claims of genocide

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While Ramaphosa and several of his deputies agreed with Trump that curbing violence should be a priority, they also noted that it is a problem across all of South ...

Watch VideoWhat we know about Pope Leo XIV’s political and social views

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The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s hot-button issues remain unclear, he ...

Watch VideoInside the Blue Origin Flight: Tears and a Katy Perry performance

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The best part came on the capsule’s descent. It was hard not to smile when hearing the tinny audio of the crew screaming as their capsule free-fell to Earth. It ...

Former president Thabo Mbeki says he's a target of apartheid case

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The lawsuit is an attempt to resolve a decades-old dispute over the alleged failure of successive African National Congress-led administrations to pursue the cases ...

Heathrow Airport partially reopens after substation fire

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More than 1,300 flights were canceled, according to flight-tracking sites, leaving London-bound passengers around the world shut out and travelers at Heathrow stuck. ...

Why South Africa's ambassador no longer welcomed in the US

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The immediate cause of Marco Rubio’s ire appeared to be a speech Rasool delivered virtually to a Johannesburg think tank on Friday.

UK South Africa climate pact to proceed without US

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The US had planned to contribute about $1 billion in commercial loans to the Just Energy Transition Partnership

Opossum eats whole Costco chocolate cake, fans have big feelings: ‘Me too girl’

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The officer took the marsupial to the Humane Society for a checkup, where it was noted she was alert and appeared to be in good health despite overindulging on a ...

Whole world of savoury dinner pancakes

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Savoury cottage cheese pancakes are protein-packed and ready in minutes.

Sick people go off-grid to flee waves in space

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This town has no cell service, so the ‘electrosensitive’ have made it home

Special first vote for woman, 81

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At 81, she just voted for the first time: her husband never did and he didn’t see any reason for her to do it either.

Life saver canine leads help home

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Keith Johnson, 84, fell outside his home. His dog left him and went to get help

Racing doctor saves fallen runner

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Emergency room doctor Shane Naidoo was nearing the halfway mark of the New Jersey Half Marathon at Newport on September 28 when a woman running in front of him collapsed. ...

Zoë Kravitz’s ‘Blink Twice’ starring Channing Tatum is a stylish but strained thriller

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Tatum, the director’s real-life partner, conveys a surprising sensitivity and shyness as the top dog.

In its fourth season, ‘Only Murders in the Building’ doubles down

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In the hit show’s fourth season, the amateur sleuths find themselves once again experimenting with micro-celebrity and becoming fodder for a vampiric - and potentially ...

Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ soars thanks to star power

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The movie is built on classic screwball-comedy bones, where the man represents order and the woman is a pure chaos agent.

The winners and losers of the 2024 Emmy nominations

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In fact, nominations for the 76th Emmy Awards, announced on Wednesday morning, were so unsurprising they may as well have been scripted.