SPRINGFIELD — After a week of behind-the-scenes negotiations that’ll send lawmakers into overtime, Democrats filed the first of three budget bills on Friday afternoon and hammered out the details of a $1.1 billion revenue package that includes a series of tax proposals sought by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Читать дальше...FOSTORIA — The Liberty Center girls just beat out the girls from Coldwater, edging the Cavaliers 59-58 for the team title at the Division III regional track and field competition that wrapped up on Friday night at Fostoria’s Memorial Stadium.
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar voted in Delhi today for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections in Delhi today.
LOUISVILLE — The Toledo Mud Hens suffered a doubleheader sweep at the hands of Louisville as the Bats scored two walk-off wins on Friday at Louisville Slugger Field — 4-2 in the first game and 4-3 in the nightcap.
A U.S. missionary couple, including the daughter of a Missouri state representative, and a resident assisting them were killed in Haiti's capital city after heading out from a youth group activity, according to the family. “My heart is broken in a thousand pieces. I’ve never felt this kind of pain,” a Facebook post from Missouri...
MANHATTAN (PIX11) – Is there a better way to celebrate Fleet Week and the start of the Memorial Day weekend than attending a free movie screening of "Top Gun Maverick" on the flight deck of the Intrepid? More than 1200 people thought this was perfection. "It's an absolutely incredible experience you can only do in [...]
An in-sync Alas Pilipinas sets its sights on a possible 2024 AVC Challenge Cup semifinal berth, while Iran attempts to douse the host country's blazing momentum to help its own playoff aspirations
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Despite the delusions of the raw milk crowd, drinking unpasteurized milk brimming with infectious avian H5N1 influenza virus is a very bad idea, according to
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Passengers "smashed" into the ceiling, blood stained the carpet in the aisles, luggage flew through the cabin, and there was "awful...
Tessa Koumoundouros, Sci Alert
Life appears to require at least some instability. This fact should be considered a biological universality, proposes University of Southern California...
Frank Jacobs, Atlas Obs
Domestic cat bones around 8,000 years old have recently been found in both Serbia and Poland. This pushes back the arrival in Europe of one of humanity's earliest...
Christopher Labos, Montreal Gazette
Medications like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) have changed how we talk about weight loss. Obesity was, and often still is,...
Michael Eisenstein, Nature
Some 60,000 years ago, Neanderthals in western Eurasia acquired strange new neighbours: a wave of Homo sapiens migrants making their way out of Africa, en...
Alex Hughes, Science Focus
The family dynamic is changing. People all around the world are deciding not to have children at all, and those that do become parents are increasingly likely to...
Kristen French, Nautilus
People who are suffering from mania are often characterized as inhabiting a world in which time seems to have sprinted ahead, spun out of control. They are said to...
Ethan Siegel, Big Think
In our experience, all physical systems eventually tend toward equilibrium: where entropy is maximized and no further energy can be extracted from it. This seems like...
John Tierney, Wall Street Journal
Thanks to the popularity of Netflix's new series "3 Body Problem," we have a new existential threat to worry about: humanity's urge to blab to the cosmos....
Stephen Balch, Chronicles
Why must we suffer? Theologians who need to justify God's ordinances engage in theodicy, an intellectual swim against life's current of unpleasantness. The question...
Mihai Andrei, ZME Science
Viswanathan Anand may not be very familiar to most people, but to chess fans, he's a household name. The former world champion has been a stable presence in the Top...
The European Union seeks to prevent virulent nationalism from happening again by restoring the cosmopolitanism, size, and economic clout of a multinational empire but without creating a unitary state in the process.
A Muay Thai fight demonstration will be featured during the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, touted as the first step towards the sport’s inclusion in the international event.
A black woman from Chicago named P-Rae Easely appeared on FOX News today and urged Donald Trump to hold a rally there, suggesting it would look a lot like the Bronx rally and that people in the city would come out to give him a hero’s welcome.
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Because yelling doesn’t work, even if it feels cathartic
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The debate is over the word "sabaya," which, depending on its spelling and slight pronunciation differences, can mean either young woman or sex slave.