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The Canada F-35 Fighter Deal Might Be Close to Collapse
Summary and Key Points: Canada’s F-35 “Problem”: Why Ottawa Might Buy Swedish JAS 39 Gripens Instead -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is reportedly inching toward a shock decision to slash Canada’s F-35 order in favor of Sweden’s Saab Gripen E/F. An F-35A Lightning II from the 354th Fighter Wing, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, flies behind a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned…
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10 Greatest Space Movie Masterpieces Of The Last 100 Years, Ranked By Realism
There have been so many great space sci-fi movies released over the last 100 years, and the best of these remain realistic in many ways to real-life space exploration. With NASA preparing to start its space program up again and send more astronauts to the moon, it is a good time to pay attention to these space-based sci-fi movies. NASA…
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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says
An 18-month-old baby held with her parents at a South Texas immigration detention center became so ill last month that she was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening respiratory failure — then sent back to detention days later, where she was denied daily medication doctors prescribed, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday. The toddler, Amalia, remained in detention for…
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The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here’s how I came to love it : NPR
The World Factbook’s website drew millions of views each year, according to the CIA. It’s seen here in an archived version from last month. CIA World Factbook via Internet Archive/ Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption CIA World Factbook via Internet Archive/ Screenshot by NPR When one of the world’s most secretive and far-reaching organizations offers to share how…
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Assam cabinet decides to refer case of Gaurav Gogoi’s ‘Pakistan links’ to MHA
Guwahati: The Assam cabinet on Saturday, February 7, decided to refer the case of Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi’s alleged Pakistan links to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. He maintained that there are “three key players” in the case – an MP, his British wife and Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh. Addressing a press conference…
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9 Movies That Tried To Be The Next Iron Man (2008)
Hollywood spent the 2010s chasing the lightning that the MCU’s Iron Man captured in 2008. Audiences loved a swaggering hero, glossy tech, and a promise that one movie was only the beginning of something massive. Studios responded by reshaping existing properties and inventing new ones that leaned hard into charm, quips, and expandable universes. Some movies borrowed the MCU timeline’s…
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Health Department food inspections for week of Jan. 25 | Health
During the week of Jan. 25, the Jefferson County Health Department inspected 37 food establishments. Scores ranged from 71 to 100. Some were routine inspections while others were reinspections where scores are not assigned. All inspections are unannounced visits. Facilities considered low priority are not assigned a score. A low priority facility does not prepare food. According to the Jefferson…
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India tracks exits, not returns amid brain drain: Sanjaya Baru at History Lit Fest
Hyderabad: India has no credible data on how many of its nationals are actually returning to the country to serve it, even as there is data on how many have left, former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s media advisor and author of the “Accidental Prime Minister” Sanjaya Baru said on Saturday, February 7, highlighting what he called the mass “brain drain”…
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These 773,000-year-old fossils may reveal our shared human ancestor
Perfectly timed fossils from Morocco reveal a forgotten African population living near the very root of the human family tree. Fossils dated with exceptional precision Sediments at Thomas Quarry I preserve a clear record of a major flip in Earth’s magnetic field that occurred about 773,000 years ago. This natural timestamp allows scientists to pin down the age of these…
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Iranian beautician films violent crackdown on protests
BEIRUT (AP) — As tear gas canisters landed among protesters filling the wide boulevard, the 37-year-old beautician and her friends ran for cover. They sheltered among trees, concealed in darkness pierced only by the glow of streetlights and small fires behind them in the western Iranian city of Karaj. Then gunfire rang out, audible in the video she was taking…
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