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Where does Santa live? It’s a trickier question to answer than you may think

Sending a letter to Santa can be difficult as no one can agree on where exactly Santa lives. Several countries are competing to claim Santa as one of their citizens.

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Consumer Reports: The best used cars under $10k

Finding an affordable and reliable used vehicle is no easy task in the modern market. These 16 models under $10k come recommended by Consumer Reports

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Consumer Reports: Best used cars & SUVs under $5,000

Why sink your hard-earned money into a new vehicle when these 8 cars and SUVs are both cheap AND reliable?

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Consumer Reports: Cheapest cars to maintain over 10 years

Consider these models when you’re shopping for a new car—they could save you thousands in repairs and maintenance over the next decade.

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Greed, Erich von Stroheim’s intense, monumental silent film, turns 100. Its legacy lives on

First released in New York on December 4 1924, Erich von Stroheim’s intense, monumental Greed remains more famous for what didn’t end up on screen than what did.

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Friday essay: ‘murdered because he was a Jew’ – Robert Manne on his grandfather Chaim and the hell of Vienna’s 1938 pogrom

My father’s father, Joachim Manne, or Chaim, as he was called, was a Galician Jew born in 1872 and raised in Cracow, in the Polish lands of the Habsburg Empire.

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The best subtitle fonts for accessibility

Here are the accessible fonts to use for subtitling video, TV and film content, with advice from experts. Subtitles are vital for accessibility.

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The Magic Mountain is a sweeping critique of totalitarian Europe. 100 years later, its warnings feel urgent

This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century’s towering literary achievements, it is a sweeping critique of the dangerous totalitarian political forces that shaped – and very nearly destroyed – Europe in Mann’s lifetime.

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The government has withdrawn its misinformation bill. A philosopher explains why regulating speech is an ethical minefield

Misinformation and disinformation are major concerns worldwide. The federal government’s misinformation bill aimed to respond to the threats posed by false, misleading and harmful information. The bill met strong opposition in the senate and has just been withdrawn.

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Sudan’s national treasures have been stolen – we spoke with the director of museums

In September, amid the ongoing war in Sudan, reports began to surface of the looting of the Sudan National Museum in the capital, Khartoum. The museum is internationally celebrated for the breadth of its collection. It illustrates powerful and unique African kingdoms from the ancient and medieval past in a…

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Why you should get to know Thomas Aquinas, even 800 years after he lived

Some years ago, I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my tracks.

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Consumer Reports: The 10 best SUVs of 2024

The consumer advocacy group tested hundreds of models; these 10 SUVs topped their list.

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The 10 Best SUVs of 2024 according to Consumer Reports

The consumer advocacy group tested hundreds of models; these 10 SUVs topped their list.

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Vanitas and the life of the author: in Chinese Postman, Brian Castro transforms fiction into a mechanism of truth

There was a point in the 1990s where it became fashionable to emphasise that autobiography was fiction. This proposition sprang up to complement an earlier stricture that emerged with the New Criticism of the mid-20th century – namely, that the author of a work of fiction was never the narrator.…

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Consumer Reports’ best American cars, trucks & SUVs of 2024

These 12 automobiles represent the best cars, trucks, and SUVs made by automakers founded and headquartered in the U.S.

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Part science, part magic: an illuminating history of healing with light

For millennia, humans had one obvious and reliable source of light – the Sun – and we knew the Sun was essential for our survival.

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Kristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom

Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local citizens and Nazis vandalizing the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg. They were “shouting and throwing stones at the marvelous glass windows,” as she later said in an oral history interview. Other students at the Jewish school nearby described a mountain…

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Maduro and His Crony Made Millions While Venezuelan Children Starved

Venezuela is governed not only by a brutal dictatorship, but by a band of depraved criminals who have enriched themselves in part by stealing money intended to buy food for hungry children.

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Debates about Columbus’ Spanish Jewish ancestry are not new − the claim was once a bid for social acceptance

In connection to Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day, media from the BBC and Fox to Reuters and Haaretz reported on new DNA evidence about the holiday’s original namesake. According to research revealed in a recent Spanish documentary, Christopher Columbus was not Italian, as widely assumed, but Sephardic: of Spanish…

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Israel’s ‘generals’ plan’ to clear Palestinians from north of Gaza could pave the way for settlers to return

Western political leaders were quick to argue that the killing of Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, on October 17 presented a window of opportunity. Perhaps the decapitation of the militant group’s senior command would be a chance for renewed ceasefire talks and the release of the Israeli hostages.

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The best new hybrid cars & trucks under $40K

These are the 10 best-rated 2024 hybrids with base prices under $40k, ranked by overall Consumer Reports score, which takes both road tests and driver satisfaction into account.

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The Sphere: Las Vegas’ iconic new residency venue explained

Completed in September 2023, the Las Vegas sphere is a multi-billion-dollar performance venue is helping to redefine live entertainment in Sin City.

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Exile, resistance and cactus pears: two Australian writers’ depictions of Palestinian life weave a powerful tapestry of stories

While Hasib Hourani’s Rock Flight and Samah Sabawi’s Cactus Pear for My Beloved are both books by Australian writers that speak of the Palestinian experience, they could not be more different.

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'The waters become corrupt, the air infected': How the ancient Greeks and Romans viewed pollution and what they did about it

Here's what the ancient Greeks and Romans can teach us about the environment and ourselves. From Roman soldiers in crowded camps to emperors cleaning up rivers, there are many lessons to be learned.

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The Abandonment Of This Early City Might Be Less Mysterious Than Many Think

Why abandon and dense and robust town? For early civilization the answer might lie in city planning — and disease.

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