NASA’s Artemis II Launch Mission Countdown Begins.

The countdown for NASA’s Artemis II test flight is underway at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with members of the launch team arriving at their consoles inside the Rocco Petrone Launch Control Center. The onsite countdown clock started ticking down at 4:44 p.…

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Our Sun has traveled from the center of the Milky Way.

Recent research advances the hypothesis that our star may have undertaken a long journey from the galactic core, in the company of numerous similar stars. This perspective challenges established knowledge about the history of our system and the galaxy itself. To retrace the …

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On this day in space: March 28, 1963: Last test flight of NASA's Saturn 1 rocket booster.

On March 28, 1963, NASA launched the first stage booster of its new Saturn 1 rocket on a fourth and final test flight. This uncrewed suborbital flight helped pave the way for astronauts to launch to the moon. After this initial test phase, NASA started launching test flights…

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Leading Chinese hypersonic aviation scientist Yan Hong dies at 56.

Yan Hong, one of China’s leading researchers in hypersonic and high-speed propulsion technologies, has died at the age of 56, according to Northwestern Polytechnical University. Yan, a professor and doctoral supervisor at NPU’s school of power and energy, died on Tuesday at …

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Olympic women's sport limited to biological females.

The women's category of Olympic sports will be limited to biological females from 2028. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says eligibility will be determined by a "once-in-a-lifetime" sex test, which would prevent transgender women and those with differ…

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Daniel Moody Wrestler Paul Bearer's Son Dead At 39.

Daniel Moody -- the son of the late WWE Hall of Famer Paul Bearer -- has died at the age of 39. According to a GoFundMe, Moody went to a hospital in November "for a procedure and suffered a major health crisis and is now in long-term care."  At the time, the page wa…

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U.S. brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela, Interior Secretary Burgum says.

The Trump administration brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela for U.S. refiners, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said. Burgum traveled to Venezuela earlier this month with oil and mining executives. The U.S. sees a major opportunity to invest in the country’s minin…

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Meta, Google lose US case over social media harm to kids.

A Los Angeles ​jury on Wednesday found Meta (META.O), and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a $6 million verdict that will serve ‌as a bellwether for numerous similar cases. The jury found Met…

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Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial.

A California jury has found Meta and YouTube liable on all counts in a landmark case that accused the tech giants of intentionally addicting a young woman and injuring her mental health. Meta and YouTube were negligent in the design of their platforms, knew their design was …

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The U.S. Military Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp in Ecuador. It Was a Dairy Farm.

As President Trump prepared to welcome conservative Latin American leaders to a summit in Florida in early March, U.S. officials released a video of a massive explosion — capturing the destruction of what they said was a drug trafficker’s training camp in rural Ecuador. The …

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The US bans all new foreign-made network routers.

The Federal Communications Commission has released a notice today designating any consumer routers manufactured outside the US as a security risk. The rule states that new foreign-made product models for network routers will land on the Covered List, a set of communications…

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Ted Nichols, Famed Hanna-Barbera Composer on ‘The Flintstones’ and ‘Scooby-Doo,’ Dies at 97.

Ted Nichols, who composed, conducted and arranged music for such beloved Hanna-Barbera cartoons as The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Josie and the Pussycats, has died. He was 97. Nichols had a long battle with Alzheimer’s and died Jan. 9 in hospice care in Aubu…

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Jury finds that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted woman in 1972 and awards her nearly $60 million.

A civil jury in California found Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972 and awarded her $59.25 million US. After a nearly two-week trial in Santa Monica, jurors found Cosby, 88, liable for the sexual battery and assault of Donna Motsinger. The…

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'Supernatural' Star Carrie Anne Fleming Dead at 51.

Actress Carrie Anne Fleming -- perhaps best known for her roles on shows like "iZombie" and "Supernatural" -- has died. According to multiple reports, Fleming passed away February 26 in Sidney, British Columbia in her native Canada. She reportedly succumb…

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Germany has a shortage of workers - so it's turning to India for help.

Germany is continuing to struggle with a shortage of skilled workers, as elderly staff retire, and there are not enough young candidates to fill their roles. To try to alleviate the problem the country is increasingly turning to workers from India. For Handirk von Ungern-Ste…

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Iran strikes near Israeli nuclear research center as Trump threatens attacks on Iranian power plants.

Iranian missiles struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel’s main nuclear research center, while President Donald Trump warned the U.S. will “obliterate” Iranian power plants i…

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Chuck Norris, martial artist and Hollywood movie star, dies aged 86.

Tributes have been pouring in from around the world to US martial artist and Hollywood action star Chuck Norris, who died aged 86. "He may have a warrior exterior, but his heart was so full of love," his daughter Danilee Norris said. Swedish actor and martial artist…

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Jury finds Elon Musk liable for misleading investors during Twitter purchase.

A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding …

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2,000-year-old artifact may be evidence that Romans found New World — a thousand years before Columbus.

Was there a New World order we didn’t know about? The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman artifact in Mexico could upend our understanding of the New World, raising the possibility that Italians arrived in the Americas long before Christopher Columbus. Dubbed the Tecaxic-Cali…

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Tehran confirms top security official Ali Larijani has been killed.

Tehran has confirmed that its top security official Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has been killed. The Supreme National Security Council of Iran announced the death of Larijani in a statement early Wednesday local time, describing him a…

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