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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, second left, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, hold a talk at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Iori Sagisawa/Pool Photo via AP)

Ukrainian prankster hacks Russian drone meeting, exposes China reliance

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

Vin Diesel poses during the premiere of Fast and Furious 8, in Paris, April 5, 2017. The actor has been accused by his former assistant of sexual battery while working for him in 2010. Astra Jonasson filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023, alleging that Diesel forced himself onto her in a hotel suite in Atlanta.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Vin Diesel is being accused of sexual battery by former assistant in lawsuit

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Test rocket crashes and explodes on Alaska’s Kodiak Island

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A vehicular battle on the moon highlights "Ad Astra," now available on 4K Ultra HD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

‘Ad Astra’ 4K Ultra HD review

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This image released by Focus Features shows Elizabeth McGovern, from left, Harry Hadden-Paton, Laura Carmichael, Hugh Bonneville and Michael Fox, right, in a scene from the film &quot;Downton Abbey.&quot; (Jaap Buitendijk/Focus Features via AP)

‘Downton Abbey’ overpowers Brad Pitt, Rambo at box office

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In this image taken from NASA video actor Brad Pitt, left, star of the new space movie “Ad Astra,” speaks from NASA headquarters in Washington, to astronaut Nick Hague abroad the International Space Station, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. (NASA via AP)

Brad Pitt asks astronaut: Who was better? Clooney or me?

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Actor Brad Pitt poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Ad Astra' at the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Brad Pitt goes deep into space, masculinity in ‘Ad Astra’

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Carmaker PSA: work at UK plant depends on Brexit deal

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Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic and United States' Rajeev Ram kiss their trophy after defeating Australia's Astra Sharma and compatriot John-Patrick Smith in the mixed doubles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, early Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Ram-Krejcikova combine to win Australian Open mixed doubles

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Grand Forks police: Mother killed 3 children, then herself

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This photo provided by KVLY-TV/Fargo show authorities at the scene in Grand Forks, N.D., Thursday, May 3, 2018, after a police officer making a welfare check found four people, three elementary school children and a parent, dead inside a home. Administrators at Lewis and Clark Elementary School asked for the check on the home on the city's south side. (Ryan Laughlin/KVLY-TV/Fargo via AP)

North Dakota mom, 3 kids dead in apparent homicides, suicide

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1930s southern Indiana theater reopens following renovation

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FILE - This photo provided by the Macon County Sheriff's Office in Decatur, Ill., shows Brendt Christensen. Attorneys for Christensen, accused of kidnapping resulting in the death of University of Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang from China, are asking a federal judge to dismiss the main charge against him and change the venue of his upcoming trial. Christensen's attorney filed 12 pretrial motions Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, including six to suppress or exclude evidence they say was illegally or improperly obtained. (Macon County Sheriff's Office via AP File)

Filing: Suspected kidnapper’s girlfriend fainted helping FBI

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang. Police said the FBI is investigating the disappearance of Zhang, a Chinese woman from a central Illinois university town, as a kidnapping. Zhang was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign when she disappeared June 9, 2017. (Courtesy of the University of Illinois Police Department via AP)

FBI uses UI’s campus cameras to investigate missing student

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This undated photo provided by the University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang. Police said the FBI is investigating the disappearance of Zhang, a Chinese woman from a central Illinois university town, as a kidnapping. Zhang was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign when she disappeared June 9, 2017. (Courtesy of the University of Illinois Police Department via AP)

FBI locates car related to missing Chinese scholar case

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Ronggao Zhang, center, father of missing Yingying Zhang, listens as he joins, from left, Yingying's best friend, Yige Yang, aunt Liqin Ye and boyfriend, Xiaolin Hou, far right, for an interview at The News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill., on Thursday, June 22, 2017. The Thursday evening gathering at Altgeld Hall in Urbana comes two weeks after Yingying Zhang, 26, disappeared. (Heather Coit/The News-Gazette via AP)

Father of missing Chinese scholar: ‘Give my daughter back’

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