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Hip-hop's first 50 years have yielded expansion across the globe and domination of digital spaces. As the internet has collapsed physical gaps, major artists from outside the United States, like (clockwise from top left) Little Simz, Drake, Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Rema, have been able to communicate with American rap culture in real time.

2023 'Til Infinity

Giving rap the future it deserves means smashing the infrastructure as it is. But with the battle lines drawn, we can still take heart in the artists teasing just how much further the culture can go.

A South Korean tank fires during exercises at the Northwest Islands area of South Korea on Friday.

North and South Korea conduct provocative military drills along their sea boundary

The rival Koreas fired artillery rounds into the sea as part of provocative drills along their disputed sea boundary Friday, in violation of the fragile 2018 inter-Korean agreement.

3 works in translation tell science-driven tales

AI may be the topic du jour, but for now only a human can read attentively and sensitively enough to genuinely recreate literature in a new language, as translators have done with these three works.

Kara Swisher attends Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference on Sept. 6, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Kara Swisher is still drawn to tech despite her disappointments with the industry

Writer and podcaster Kara Swisher wrote her memoir, Burn Book, about her disillusionment with many tech moguls. It recounts more than three decades covering the tech industry.

South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, center, speaks as he visits the construction site of a new airport in Busan, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Lee was attacked and injured by an unidentified man during a visit Tuesday to the southeastern city of Busan, emergency officials said.

South Korean opposition leader is stabbed by knife-wielding man

Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck, authorities said, during a visit to the city of Busan. No motive for the attack was immediately available.

This year's rally has really depended on seven stocks that Wall Street refers to as 'The Magnificent Seven': Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, NVDIA, Meta, Microsoft and Tesla

Wall Street calls them 'the Magnificent 7': They're the reason why stocks are surging

The S&P 500 has surged this year, but most of those gains are thanks to a handful companies nicknamed "the Magnificent Seven." And that's worrying Wall Street.

A trolley arrives at the 12th & Imperial Transit Center, Sept. 14, 2023.

It's about to get easier to pay MTS bus and trolley fares

The transit agency's board of directors voted to allow fare payment by tapping a credit card or smartphone.

In 2019, Barneys New York went under. But its name lives on under a new owner that specializes in buying and recharging dying brands.

Bankrupt and loving it: Welcome to the lucrative world of undead brands

Remember Juicy Couture and Pier 1? They went under, but not all the way under. Someone still makes millions of dollars off these names. And the hunt for revivable brands is big business.

A bronze statue honoring hometown hero and hall-of-fame rodeo roper Ikua Purdy in Waimea, Hawaii. Someone has been quietly buying hundreds of acres of land — stirring worries, speculation and a lot of questions among the locals.

A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why

A mystery has been brewing in a small ranching town on Hawaii's Big Island. Word has it that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bought the land, stirring worries about what he plans to do with it.

A protest group called "Hot Mess" holds up signs of Jeffrey Epstein on July 8, 2019 in New York City.

What to know about the Jeffrey Epstein 'John Doe' files that were just unsealed

The documents bring new clarity to a tragic and shocking case that alleged acts of illegal sexual predation within an elite world of power and influence.

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