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The cold-hearted world of scamming is big business. American consumers lost more than $12.5bn to cyber-fraud last year, ...

From Korea to Cuba, America has been at its best diplomatically when it has encouraged its friends to be candid ...

A quarter of “The Great Gatsby” has passed before, at one of his lavish parties, Jay Gatsby bumps into Nick Carraway, the ...

Public-health experts caution that the evidence of harm is thin, and fluoridated tap water keeps teeth healthy. But is it ...

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