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The US-China conflict to watch is the Chip War
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TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Dec 12, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Most Americans are unaware that the United States is already fighting a war with China that involves Taiwan. This war isn't yet b...
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Make Saudi Arabia pay for conduct
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Oct 13, 2022
Generations of reliance on Saudi oil has skewedthe United States'relationship with the corrupt medieval monarchy. The economic reality precluded the B...
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Student loan relief on shaky ground
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Oct 03, 2022
A U.S. president isn’t a king. No matter how much some who hold the office would wish it otherwise. Even if you believe in your heart of hearts that s...
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Declining life expectancy in the US
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Sep 01, 2022
Not for a hundred years has there been such a pronounced drop in U.S. life expectancy, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 just two years later, in 2021, acco...
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The West shows fatigue over war in Ukraine
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jun 20, 2022
I was in the hills of northern Italy last week, mostly on vacation but also curious to see how the war in Ukraine has affected life next door in Europ...
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Welcome to Cold War 2.0. It won’t be easy
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 01, 2022
No matter how Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ends, it already marks a turning point in history: the end of a 30-year period of relative peace in...
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Putin has a way out
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 08, 2022
When Russia’s Vladimir Putin massed 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, the United States and its European allies responded with a hastily assembled ...
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Nobody said nuclear deal with Iran would be easy
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 07, 2021
Diplomats from Iran, the United States and five other powers gathered in Vienna last week to try to revive President Barack Obama’s 2015 deal limiting...
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Biden wants China focus; Putin has another idea
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 30, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden arrived in the White House 10 months ago with two top foreign policy priorities: He wanted to rebuild the alliances h...
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