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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jonah Heim had played only 13 big league games before he was traded for the third…

The Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israelis has evoked memories of 1940s Europe. Moshe Ridler, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, was killed in the attack on Holit, Israel.

Public interest can be measured by billions of views drawn to Hilary Sanchez’ TikTok channel, called @nateandhillary, her Connecticut lawyer wrote.

Thank to the flexibility of hybrid work, some Americans are commuting 7.5 hours to work — one way.

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates are at 23-year highs, and where they'll go next depends on the Fed and incoming economic data.

'Super commuting' is on the rise — and that spells big trouble for mid-size cities.

NASA's Juno mission captured a new image of Jupiter's far northern region, where the swirling cloud tops and turbulent storms resemble an eerie, elongated face.

The Louisiana congressman's career has been centered around his bitter obsession with other people's sex lives

The site is located adjacent to the sand dunes between Dungeness and Greatstone-on-Sea in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It lies at a bend in the long seafront road at the end of a strip of beachfront detached houses dating from the mid-20th century to today.

Residents of Pelican Narrows described the fear of growing violence in their small northern Saskatchewan community, pleading with community leaders and police for help.

Even as some feared the war would be the first in history to be flooded with machine-made fake images, that hasn’t happened. The technology’s impact on the conflict is far more subtle.

On the eastern flank of metropolitan Las Vegas, out past a water park advertising “the world’s largest man-made wave” and a nascent development called Cadence, a red-dirt parking lot teases public access to the system that enabled the past three decades of growth in southern Nevada. Called the Las Vegas Wash, it amounts to a channel that funnels the area’s recycled water back to its aquatic lifeline: Lake Mead.

Fresh off its victory in 303 Creative v. Elenis, the Alliance Defending Freedom has returned with another anti–LGBTQ rights case cued up for the Supreme Court this session. The case in question—Tingley v. Ferguson—involves Brian Tingley, a licensed marriage and family counselor, who is challenging Washington state’s law banning conversion therapy for minors. Tingley, who is being represented by ADF lawyer Kristen K. Waggoner, claims that this ban violates his First Amendment rights.

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Will the Penguins have enough in the tank to topple the Anaheim Ducks tonight? Before the puck drops, catch the latest headlines in today’s Pens Points.

To highlight its 125th anniversary, Pepsi opened up a diner, Pepsi 125, from Oct. 19 to 25 in New York City. What do you think of this pop-up experience?

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Within the past few months, major streaming hubs like Disney+, AppleTV, Paramount+, and even Netflix announced price increases for their video services. Instead of feeding into the streaming wars arms race, you can land a well-stocked entertainment and educational streaming platform library at a fantastic price – for life.

Curiosity Stream offers documentaries, TV shows, and other original programming that explores human history and our understanding of it. Now,... Читать дальше...

Unscramble the name of a US scientist, known for combining green principles with nanotechnology, by solving this sukodu-style puzzle

Technologists are helping artists fight back against what they see as intellectual property (IP) theft by generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools  whose training algorithms automatically scrape the internet and other places for content.

Also in this week's C&EN, an amazing story from Sam Lemonick: 

Kristie Koski is waiting to make tenure. Like many academic chemists, she submitted her tenure package in her sixth year as a professor. That’s when professors “are expected to be ready for promotion,” according to the personnel manual at the University of California, Davis, where Koski is a physical chemist. The traditional expectation in academia is that a professor makes—or is denied—tenure in their seventh year.

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On the final day of men’s pool play at the XIX Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, the United States came out with a 5-1 win thanks to four goals from penalty corner ace Aki Kaeppeler. Chile took down Mexico 5-0 to also secure second spot out of Pool A. The wins seed USA and Chile in second place of their pools, setting up a semifinal battle between Canada and Chile and then Argentina and USA.

On the final day of men’s pool play at the XIX Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile it was Canada and Argentina who close out their respective pools with shutout wins to secure the top of their pools. For Pool B, Canada took down Trinidad and Tobago 4-0, while in Pool A, Argentina put up a whopping 22-0 over Peru thanks to eight goals from forward Tomas Domene.

With the conflict in Gaza provoking debate over what constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law, The Onion asked Americans to define a “war crime,” and this is what they said.

Lessons from the Ranch: Training, Riding, Luck, and Love By Van Hargis Van Hargis grew up in the saddle on an East Texas ranch, training his first horse at age 12 and eventually making a living starting cutting and reining colts, many of which would leave his hands to become ...

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Hakeem Olajuwon scoring on the Dallas Mavericks

What would the Dream do with Victor Wembanyama?