A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Thursday against an effort to restrict native peoples' rights to protect reservations on their ancestral lands, in a win for Indigenous activists and climate campaigners. Indigenous leaders in bright feather headdresses and body paint exploded in celebration outside the high court building in Brasilia as Justice Luiz Fux became the sixth on the 11-member court to side with the native plaintiffs in the landmark case, giving them a victory.

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The Biden administration will allow almost 500,000 Venezuelans who are already in the US to live and work legally in the country for 18 months. The decision is a response to pressure from officials in various cities and states, especially New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, urging the federal government to address the migrant crisis. The move will benefit about 472,000 Venezuelans.

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"Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The Authors Guild, an organization representing writers accused the California-based company of using their books "without permission" to train ChatGPT's "large language models."

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George RR Martin's "A Song of Fire and Ice" recently surpassed what author and book for the most popular epic fantasy series ever published?

Thursday's answer: King Louis XVI died at the guillotine during the French Revolution in 1793, earning him the nickname “Louis the Last”.