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A man has admitted stabbing an 11-year-old girl in a random knife attack in London’s West End. Romanian national Ioan Pintaru grabbed the Australian holidaymaker as she left the Lego store in ...

The military veteran accused of shooting dead two teens in a random attack at a remote Arizona campsite made eerie posts about the killings and his presence at the crime scene on social media. Thomas ...

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The summer of 2025 was a very eventful season for the US as the Department of Justice (DOJ) notified US President Donald Trump that he appeared multiple times in the Epstein files. Congress is ...

Last week, in a conversation with Anthropic’s Claude, I lamented the fact that, at least here in the West, every public debate appears to resemble a confrontation rather than a dialogue. I suggested ...

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