As a team of French archaeologists excavated a seventh-century C.E. dwelling at Taposiris Magna, an ancient city located ...
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President Donald Trump’s stall of the TikTok ban is “political theater,” many BlueSky users say. So are other executive orders, others alleged, made during his first days back in office, from renaming ...