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Test launches and road closures of a popular public beach near SpaceX's Texas Launch facility in South Texas are now a weekly occurrence -- including twice last week. But locals say when SpaceX was wooing the community in 2013 to develop the site here, they billed it as a launch facility -- not a testing facility. Now the company is building a massive Starship spacecraft here to launch to Mars and many want more regulatory control to ensure that residents and the environment are not harmed in the process.

The daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell and the friend of Prince Andrew, is accused of grooming underage girls for the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein prior to her arrest this morning

No casualties reported, officials say site operating as usual after incident at Iran's main uranium enrichment site.

The "Captain Marvel" star launched her own YouTube channel and had a great answer to name a future-classic movie.

Coronavirus just caused another awards show to move out of its original date. The 2021 Screen Actor’s Guild Awards (or SAG Awards as they’re commonly called) will no longer take place on January 24, 2021. The new show will air on March 14, 2021, which is a full six weeks ahead of the 2021 Oscars. [...]

CUPP in a statement sent to journalists on Thursday, July 2 by its spokesman, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere said it frowned at the inclusion of its name in the party.

Opinions in New Delhi are hardening, even among sections of elite opinion-makers who are not seen as hyper-nationalists.

Rates were weighed down by fears that the U.S. economy’s recovery will be held back by new coronavirus outbreaks.

1. RIP to the Google Pixel 3a, which is officially discontinued  Ars Technica
2. Google discontinues the Pixel 3A and 3A XL  The Verge
3. The Pixel 3a’s disappearance is a reminder Google just isn’t that into hardware  Digital Trends
4. The Google Pixel 3a is officially dead, so where the hell is the Pixel 4a?  Tom's Guide UK
5. The Google Pixel 4a will have a larger battery capacity than the Pixel 3a, Pixel 3 and Pixel 4; 18 W fast charging remains  Notebookcheck.net
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Fireworks are synonymous with Independence Day in the United States, but how did they go from gunpowder to today's 4th of July firecrackers? While explosives date back thousands of years to ancient China, most people don't realize that modern fireworks came out of folklore.

Much of the debate about annexation has focused on the ultimate bogeyman: the apartheid card.

DENVER (AP) — As nursing home infections decrease, Colorado health officials say more people are contracting COVID-19 in retail locations, such as stores and restaurants.

Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been catastrophic for public health and yet, the majority of white voters support exactly those policies.

A special edition of the Little Gold Men podcast, created in collaboration with Apple TV+.

As per the NCLAT statement, another staff member tested positive for the virus on June 26 and work was suspended until July 3

A 63-year-old white woman in Virginia has been charged with filing a false police report after she allegedly lied about being assaulted by a Black couple, the Powhatan County Sheriff’s Office says.Gladys Townsend reported around 6 p.m. on Wednesday...

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The New York-based insurance startup backed by Japanese tech giant SoftBank opened for trading at $50.06 a share and reached as high as $67.45

The wife of an American soldier was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday by a German court for killing her 4-year-old stepson last year at the family home in Eschenbach, German media reports said.

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Spoiler: very, very fast. As in "zeptosecond" fast.

Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said Thursday that Iran had agreed to compensate the families' of the foreign victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down outside Tehran in January.

Also, if we hope to be a globally competitive manufacturer, technology adoption, not cheap labour, is the way ahead

MULTIPLE waves of coronavirus could hit Britain in the coming months and a second “peak” is still likely, the Deputy CMO warned tonight. Jenny Harries said that a second wave – or even a series of them – can’t be ruled out at the moment. Speaking at the Downing Street press conference she said that […]

The wife of an American soldier was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday by a German court for killing her 4-year-old stepson last year at the family home in Eschenbach, German media reports said.