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 (DIR)  * AI hiring is here. It’s making companies — and job seekers — miserable
 (DIR)  * Bowen Yang tearfully bids farewell to ‘Saturday Night Live’ with the help of Cher and Ariana Grande
 (DIR)  * Oregon, Miami and Ole Miss advance to the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff
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 (DIR)  * High-speed passenger train kills 7 elephants crossing railway tracks in northeast India
 (DIR)  * As officials uncover more information about the Brown and MIT professor shooting suspect, key questions remain
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 (DIR)  * What we learned from Jake Paul’s painful defeat against Anthony Joshua
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 (DIR)  * Epstein files vindicate a survivor who reported him in the 1990s, but others are still seeking answers
 (DIR)  * Life changed for Jews in Australia this week. Will it ever be the same?
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 (DIR)  * Call for election reforms was ‘culmination’ of Trump’s January 6 speech, DOJ attorney argues in court
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 (DIR)  * Events leading to the killings of Brown University students and MIT professor spanned decades
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 (DIR)  * Analysis: Trump’s bizarre $10 billion BBC lawsuit has even more holes than his other media actions
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 (DIR)  * Rubio calls ‘status quo’ with Venezuela ‘intolerable’ as Trump admin sanctions Maduro family members
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 (DIR)  * Kennedy Center gets new signage bearing Trump’s name
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 (DIR)  * Jeff Hiller knows you thought his Emmys hair and glasses were a little much
 (DIR)  * Supreme Court revives free speech lawsuit from immigration judges in loss for Trump
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 (DIR)  * Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson clash at Turning Point USA conference over the MAGA movement’s direction
 (DIR)  * German man found guilty of drugging, raping and filming his wife for years
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