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How ending affirmative action changed California

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Cankaya Palace after he was sworn in as President in Parliament in Ankara on June 3, 2023. Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Sony and Marvel and the Amazing Spider-Man Films Rights Saga

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Freight drivers feel the flip-flop

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A troubling cold spot in the hot jobs report

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Climate activists hold placards as they demonstrate outside ExCeL, in London, during the multinational oil and gas company Shell Annual General Meeting (AGM), on May 23, 2023. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Grimes used AI to clone her own voice. We cloned the voice of a host of Planet Money.

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This timed exposer shows the trail as the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from pad 39A for the Crew-6 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, early on March 2, 2023. Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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YUMA, ARIZONA - MAY 25: An aerial view of the long-depleted Colorado River, currently swollen by winter snowmelt water, along the border between California (L) and Arizona near Yuma, Arizona. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption

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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 16: Samuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. The committee held an oversight hearing to examine A.I., focusing on rules for artificial intelligence. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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Bots, bootleggers and Baptists

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Economic forecasters on jobs, inflation and housing

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