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Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

Over its entire four years, the Biden regime imported millions of illegal aliens and gave them generous government benefits ...

The latest Star Trek series picks up from the events of Discovery, and includes returning characters and references to Trek ...

The afternoon I saw Tracy Letts’ excellent, itchy Bug on Broadway – an earlier scheduled performance had been canceled – the ...

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By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...