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‘Ceasefire is not over,’ Hegseth says as U.S. acts to reopen Strait of Hormuz

WASHINGTON — The United States has launched a new military operation to ensure commercial shipping vessels can safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz, deploying scores of warships, fighter jets and drones to counter Iranian efforts that have threatened the narrow waterway that carries a fifth of the world’s oil. At a news conference Tuesday at the…

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Robot named Lightning blows past human runners to set half-marathon record in Beijing

Slide over, Jacob Kiplimo. The world’s fastest human in the half-marathon is still just that, but the Ugandan’s record time of 57 minutes, 20 seconds, was obliterated Sunday in Beijing by a 5-foot-5 humanoid robot named Lightning. Lightning was one of more than 100 robots running the 13.1-mile race in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area…

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