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The graph appears in a real textbook for high school students published in 2019. However, the textbook presents the graph as the results of a political ideology quiz used for a critical-thinking ...

President Donald Trump and top defense officials are reportedly weighing whether to send ground troops to Iran in order to retrieve the country’s highly enriched uranium. However, the administration ...

The Federal Reserve made no changes to its median interest rate projections, with a quarter-point reduction still penciled in for 2026, according to the Summary of Economic Projections published on ...

A federal jury has convicted an Iranian operative of taking part in a terrorism attempt and plot to assassinate President Donald Trump in 2024, well before the war in Iran. Asif Merchant, a Pakistani ...

The traffic cameras on the streets of Tehran provided a real-time view of the targets. Hacked years ago, the cameras allowed Israel to map the city in detail, establish patterns of movement, and build ...

Testimony and evidence in Asif Merchant’s trial has so far portrayed him as a zealous yet bumbling operative who never came close to his mission, which prosecutors say was backed by Iran. By Santul ...

This harebrained assassination plot went up in smoke. An alleged Iran-backed terrorist who bizarrely thought he could put a bargain-priced hit out on Donald Trump by paying two men just $5,000 upfront ...

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy ...

Since 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved a number of historic milestones, including sending back the first audio recordings from Mars. Now, nearly five years after landing on the Red Planet, ...