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Grace inherits a property from a long-lost friend, and heads off to Ibiza investigate ... without a plan or a guidebook
Grace inherits a property from a long-lost friend, and heads off to Ibiza investigate ... without a plan or a guidebook
September 6 – San Marino, the whipping boys of international football as the worst team on the planet, according to FIFA’s world rankings, made history on Thursday by beating Liechtenstein 1-0 in the UEFA Nations League to claim their first ever competitive win.
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The Biden-Harris State Department is slated to host a senior Iraqi official allegedly involved in "industrial-scale sanctions evasion on behalf of the regime in Iran," prompting Congress to demand the administration revoke his American visa.
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The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Madras High Court directive to YouTuber Felix Jerald to close down his channel "RedPix 24x7" as one of the bail conditions. Jerald had been arrested for hosting an "objectionable" interview of another YouTuber Savukku Shankar on his YouTube channel. In the interview, Shankar made certain comments against Madras High Court judges and women police officers of the state. The high court, which granted bail to both YouTubers, had asked Jerald to close down his channel as one of the conditions. Читать дальше...
Bats are dying at an alarming rate. New research links it to an increase in infant mortality from pesticides
NPR's A Martinez talks with Lucy Sorensen, an associate professor of public policy at the University of Albany, about the role of armed school resource officers.
The IRS said funding from the Inflation Reduction Act has helped it go after wealthy taxpayers who failed to pay their tax bills.
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey has been praised in all manner of terms since it came out more than half a century ago. An early advertising campaign, tapping into the enthusiasm of the contemporary counterculture, called it “the ultimate trip”; in the equivalently trendy parlance of the twenty-twenties, one could say that it “goes […]
US stocks have struggled in September, but there's reason to believe they'll bounce back. Here are 15 stocks on a list that has dominated since 2008.
AI chatbots and new features are boosting Google's subscription business, which an analyst says could rival Apple-like revenue.
AuditBoard's $3 billion deal with Hg underscores how private equity offers swift liquidity and strategic backing, as IPOs wane.
If this galaxy is typical, then the study, published today in Nature Astronomy, indicates that our galaxy is already interacting with its closest neighbor, Andromeda.
Most animals live in intimate relationships with bacteria. Some of these bacteria live inside the cells of their hosts, but only very few are able to live inside cell organelles (structures inside the cell, like organs in the body). One group of bacteria have figured out how to colonize the nuclei of their hosts, a remarkable feat given that the nucleus is the control center of the cell.
Thermogenesis is a process by which organisms generate internal heat. Although it is usually associated with animals, some plants have also developed this ability. This metabolic process allows certain parts of the plant, such as flowers and inflorescences, to raise their temperature above that of the surrounding environment.
Dark matter is the invisible force holding the universe together—or so we think. It makes up about 85% of all matter and around 27% of the universe's contents, but since we can't see it directly, we have to study its gravitational effects on galaxies and other cosmic structures. Despite decades of research, the true nature of dark matter remains one of science's most elusive questions.
They're tiny drug-delivery systems 1,000 times smaller than a human hair, but while nanomedicines have long been hailed as the future for treating debilitating and life-threatening diseases, their journey from lab to patient has many challenges.
Donald Trump overperformed his polling numbers on Election Day in 2016 and 2020, but national pollsters say it's less likely he'll do so again this year.
The updated 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 lineup now gets beefier off-road XRT trim, joining bigger Santa Fe.
The organisers of AquaExpo 2024 – one of the leading technical-commercial events for the South American shrimp industry – have announced that the 2024 edition of the annual conference will be held from 21 – 24 October in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
John Adams’s January 6: The acclaimed new biography of the second president reveals how division, insurrection, and repression threatened the young nation and offers lessons for our time. An excerpt.
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