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Record-breaking crowds are gridlocking America’s top wilderness destinations, sparking an unexpected peak-season crisis after ...

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deemed artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a "supply chain risk to national security" on Friday, following days of increasingly heated public conflict over the ...