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Investigation into President Biden’s Past Abortion Comments
LinkedIn, the professional networking platform, has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to pay $1.8 million to female employees who, according to… Read More »LinkedIn agrees to pay $1.8 million to women over discrimination claims
enlarge † Analysis of the residue in this ceramic vessel shard indicates that it may have been used as a hand grenade. The shard was… Read More »Could this pottery shard be a 1000-year-old hand grenade? Signs indicate yes
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BEIJING (AP) – Chinese aircraft carrier group Liaoning has embarked on a “realistic combat” training mission in the western Pacific Ocean, the Chinese navy said… Read More »Chinese Aircraft Carrier on Combat Training in the Western Pacific
Kimbal Musk and Mr. Gracias, who left the Tesla board last year to serve as SpaceX director, declined to comment on this article. Today, Mr.… Read More »How Elon Musk has winged it with Twitter and everything else
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The sound of the echoes of a binary black hole, courtesy of Erin Kara and Kyle Keane of MIT. Animation calculated by Michal Dovciak. Black… Read More »Hear the X-ray echoes of a black hole as it devours a companion star
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