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Russia is banned from the 2026 Winter Olympics due to ongoing sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. No Russian hockey players can compete, even as neutral athletes, in team events. Elite NHL players ...

WASHINGTON — While nearly 100 countries are represented at the 2026 Olympics, a few notable countries won't be participating. It's a familiar sight for Olympics watchers: Russian and Belarusian ...

THE BIGGEST worry in Silicon Valley is that the artificial-intelligence boom turns out to be a bubble. Yet beneath the surface, another risk looms. Digital advertising, which accounts for a large and ...

Anthropic Claude Code is leading a shift away from manual code, favoring agentic AI. Agentic AI demands more CPU computing power, which fits Arm's strength. Arm just saw data center royalty revenue ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at how the U.S. public feels about the economy, their concerns over economic issues and how Trump’s policies are effecting economic conditions. Pew Research ...

As new threats arise around the world, the United States Department of State regularly updates travel advisories for Americans abroad. From crime to health hazards, these advisories provide an ...

Local law enforcement, including these policemen walking past Piazza Duomo in Milan, handle most security functions at the Winter Games. A division of ICE is expected to aid Italian authorities' ...

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The Super Bowl has grown from a simple championship game into one of the most significant cultural events in the United States, with the halftime show standing as its glitziest centerpiece. This ...

Americans largely disapprove of the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as recent enhanced enforcement operations spread to new cities across the country, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...