Dolly Parton played a little-known role in producing a classic television show, and the news has left fans amazed.

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Sharks have survived five mass extinctions. Discover what the first sharks were, when the megalodon first appeared, and how this group of fishes changed over 450 million years.

Gandhi would surely have been widely reviled, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

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This blog post describes the introduction of women's suffrage in Liechtenstein.

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Amazon will phase out its controversial “commingling” policy — a long-criticized practice of pooling identical items from different sellers — in a major change to its fulfillment operations.

The Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act, or ELVIS Act, is an updated version of the state's right of publicity law. The new legislation includes AI-specific protections.