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President Donald Trump admitted Tuesday that he used the slur "shithole countries" to disparage Haiti and African nations during a 2018 meeting with lawmakers, bragging about a comment that sparked ...

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Researchers at Columbia have created a chip that turns a single laser into a “frequency comb,” producing dozens of powerful light channels at once. Using a special locking mechanism to clean messy ...