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How to watch the Men’s Marathon at the Olympics

Digital Trends 

The men’s marathon at the 2024 Paris Olympics is set to take place today. The legendary Eliud Kipchoge seeks a record third consecutive gold in the event, but he’ll face stiff challenges from three-time Olympic gold medalist (in the 5,000m and 10,000m) Kenenisa Bekele, 2024 Tokyo Marathon winner Benson Kipruto, defending world champion Victor Kiplangat […]

Trump, by the Numbers

Nytimes.com 

It can be treacherous, measuring your worth in ego arithmetic.

Mars and Jupiter get chummy in the night sky. The planets won't get this close again until 2033

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Mars and Jupiter are cozying up in the night sky for their closest rendezvous this decade. They'll be so close Wednesday, at least from our perspective, that just a sliver of moon could fit between them. In reality, our solar system's biggest planet and its reddish neighbor will be more than 350 million miles apart. Their orbits haven't brought them this close together, one behind the other, since 2018. And it won't happen again until 2033. Known as planetary conjunctions, these cosmic pairings happen only every three years.

Estia evacuation plan activated, Cyprus tells foreign diplomats

Cyprus Mail 

The foreign ministry said on Saturday it has informed all diplomatic missions in Cyprus that the ‘Estia’ plan to repatriate third country nationals has been activated and the country is ready to help if there are requests to leave the Middle East. In their statement, the ministry said that it informed the diplomats of the […]

Mars and Jupiter get chummy in the night sky. The planets won't get this close again until 2033 - The Associated Press

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  1. Mars and Jupiter get chummy in the night sky. The planets won't get this close again until 2033  The Associated Press
  2. See ‘Shooting Stars’ As Jupiter Meets Mars: The Night Sky This Week  Forbes
  3. Perseid Meteor Shower Joins Stunning Mars and Jupiter Conjunction  Scientific American
  4. Major planetary alignment, a once-in-a-decade event, happens this month. Here’s how to see it  OregonLive
  5. Jupiter Mars conjunction: How to see the Red Planet and the Giant Planet side-by-side... Читать дальше...

Misjudging Labor

The New York Review of Books 

On June 13 the Supreme Court once again sided with a multibillion-dollar corporation over its workers. The case of Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney concerns seven employees, now known as the Memphis Seven, whom Starbucks fired in February 2022 as they tried to unionize their store in Tennessee. (Because federal law prohibits employers from retaliating against organizing, the company naturally claims […]

Newsom Feuds With LA Over Homelessness

The American Conservative 

State of the Union: The governor is threatening to withhold funding.

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Consider the Boor

TheAtlantic.com 

In Jo Hamya’s new novel, pity becomes a form of power.