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Data shows childless adults spend more on toys than familes with kids — and an expert explains why

Today’s toy buyers are kids — at heart.Childless adults are beating out parents with kids as the top toy-buying demographic this year, according to data from Circana.Pokémon, Barbie, LEGO and Marvel super heroes are the top-selling brands, raking in billions from parents with kids — but even more from child-free con…

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‘Cornell 7’ case renews scrutiny on NY’s ‘voluntary intoxication’ loophole

An antiquated New York law that shields rapists who target intoxicated victims is under renewed scrutiny in light of the “Cornell 7” case — but Assembly Democrats have long opposed a proposal to close the legal loophole, with one even referring to it as the “ruining drunk sex bill,” The Post has learned.

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[Wang Son-taek] Politicization of security issues in South Korea

There is an old maxim in foreign policy that “politics stops at the water’s edge.” The principle suggests that partisan competition should not be allowed to undermine the national interest in dealing with the outside world. However, that principle is increasingly difficult to uphold. Complex diplomatic maneuvers and…

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US forces have finally quit Iraq. What happens now?

Baghdad: US military forces pulled out of Iraq on Wednesday following two decades of American involvement that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of US troops, and now leaves a battered but increasingly influential Iran at the centre of the region’s future.

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