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“Stars like the Sun don’t just stop shining,” but this one did
Astronomers have identified powerful winds of vaporized metals inside a vast cloud that blocked the light of a distant star for almost nine months. The finding was made using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, which is partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab. The observation offers…
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An Oregon woman was a baby when her mother was murdered. Decades later, evidence points to her loving father.
It was Thursday, Dec. 1, 1988, when Deborah Atrops, known as Debe, was found murdered in her car, next to a construction site in Beaverton, Oregon. Debe had been reported missing two days earlier by her estranged husband, Bob Atrops, who lived about five miles away on a rural road. Deborah “Debe” Atrops holds her infant daughter, Rhianna. Washington County…
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Mental health funding mess leaves Nevada providers on edge – Las Vegas Sun News
Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026 | 2 a.m. Editor’s note: Este artículo está traducido al español. Nevada’s mental health and recovery network reeled after a federal funding fiasco wiped out — then abruptly restored — millions in crucial grants earlier this month, upending programs and leaving providers unsure if their money will vanish again. At Las Vegas’ PACT Coalition, which focuses…
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Shafi Lokhandwala delivers lecture at MANUU RC Bhopal
Bhopal: Shafi Lokhandwala, a former Design & Manufacturing Engineer at Ford Motors (USA), delivered an insightful PowerPoint presentation on “Understanding Monetary System” the other day at the Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE), Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Regional Centre in Bhopal’s Shanti Nagar campus. Shafi Lokhandwala explained the evolution of the monetary system, the concept of money…
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12 Best Sci-Fi Kung Fu Movies of All Time, Ranked
When it comes to action flicks, audiences love a juicy fight scene. Often a major part of the conflict, the fight scenes provide the adrenaline rush that keeps you engaged. Within the world of action movies, there are, of course, subgenres, one of which is sci-fi kung fu. Throughout the spectrum of film, kung fu has often been used as…
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As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge
Allan LittleSenior correspondent BBC I had been asked to give a key-note speech at a conference at Columbia University’s Journalism School. It was January 2002. Two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre months earlier and you could still feel how wounded the city felt. You could read it in the faces of New…
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Five killed in fire at furniture shop building in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Five bodies, including that of a woman, were retrieved from a four-storey furniture shop building in Nampally here where a fire broke out, officials said on Sunday, January 25. Rescue operations have been underway for the past 21 hours to save five people, including two children, who are feared to be trapped in the basement of the building after…
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Democrats in Texas Senate race call for ICE overhaul, hours after Minnesota shooting
Hours after federal immigration agents killed a man in Minneapolis, the top Democrats running for U.S. Senate in Texas appeared on a debate stage together and both called for overhauling Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Just minutes into the debate between Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico, which was hosted by the Texas AFL-CIO and moderated by Nexstar’s KXAN-TV…
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10 Essential Movies from 1976
We take a look at a great year for cinema with ten essential movies from 1976… A stellar year in cinema can sometimes be judged by the strength of the best picture nominees. Then you could look again in a decade or two and see which films have accrued a loyal cult following and been more patiently discovered in time.…
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Day Twenty-Seven of the Protests: Strong Condemnation of Iran’s Regime at the UN Human Rights Council
HRANA – On the twenty-seventh day of nationwide protests, according to HRANA’s aggregated data, the number of confirmed deaths has reached 5,137, while cases still under review stand at 12,904. In addition, at least 7,402 people have suffered serious injuries during the protests, and the total number of arrests has risen to 27,797. These figures have been recorded as nationwide…
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