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Billionaire Elon Musk has refused to answer Sky News questions about claims he foiled a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships. The businessman behind SpaceX and X, formerly known as Twitter, has been accused of enabling Vladimir Putin by withholding the use of his satellite network. Ukrainian military forces planned to use the Starlink satellites for
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A convicted murderer on the run after breaking out of prison was shot at by a homeowner who found him in his garage stealing a rifle, US authorities said. Hundreds of state and local police along with federal agents are searching for 34-year-old Brazilian Danelo Cavalcante following his escape from Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania
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US President Joe Biden could be facing a possible impeachment inquiry over his family’s business dealings. US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said he is directing committees to open a formal investigation into what he called a “culture of corruption” around the first family. He said over the past few months “House Republicans have uncovered
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Drew Barrymore has been dropped as host of the National Book Awards ceremony in the US, after resuming filming of her talk show during the Hollywood writers’ strike. Barrymore has faced criticism and been accused of “scabbing” on social media after announcing the decision, and striking writers picketed the recording of the first show in
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Zeus, the world’s tallest male dog, has died from complications following treatment for bone cancer, Guinness World Records has said. The Great Dane, who stood at one metre tall, was awarded the title in 2022. He was three years old and would have turned four in November. He died from pneumonia following surgery to remove
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A convicted murderer who broke out of prison by “crab-walking” over the walls has been caught after a nearly two-week-long manhunt. Danelo Cavalcante broke out of Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania on 31 August. CCTV showed the 34-year-old stretching himself between a pair of parallel walls from the prison’s recreation yard in order to climb
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One of the world’s most fabled neighborhoods for the rich and famous is Beverly Hills, the home of Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston, Adele, Jack Nicholson, and Eddy Murphy. And in Beverly Hills is one of the most luxurious and expensive shopping areas you have ever seen, Rodeo Drive. But is the allure of Rodeo Drive
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Wednesday morning at 8:30 am Eastern Time, India landed its first rover on the surface of the moon.  It’s called Chandrayaan-3.  Which means “moon craft” in Sanskrit. Fourteen hours later, the Chandrayaan-3’s rover rolled out and, said India’s space agency, “took a walk around.”  But, unlike America’s rovers on Mars, which keep on trucking for up to
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Thomas S. Dee, an education professor at Stanford University, has just released the results of a study he carried out in partnership with the Associated Press.  The study’s topic is student absenteeism in 40 states, and the results are disturbing. The Dee study concludes that 6.5 million students are chronic absentees.  They are absent more than one
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In 1968 Pope Paul VI established a Global Peace Day. A New Year’s Day on which the Pope gives a speech “reflecting the signs of our times.” Wednesday August 9th, the Vatican put out an announcement about the speech the pope will give at next year’s Peace Day, coming up on January 1st, just four months
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The Washington Post ran a headline Wednesday, August 2, saying Donald “Trump has been indicted before. Historians say this time is different.” Why is this time different? From the Democrat point of view, we are at a turning point in American history. The next 458 days, many Democrats feel, will determine whether we have a
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Digital IDs are sweeping the world, but are barely seeping into America.  This American techno-sluggishness has disturbing implications. We Americans have traditionally led the world with our technologies and our infrastructure.  That is no longer the case.  Our roadways and airports make us look like a third world country.  Even our water and sewage systems are
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Each time Vladimir Putin raises the spectre of nuclear confrontation, the trail ultimately leads back to one man. Eighty years before the Russian president invaded Ukraine, and brought the potential of such weapons back to mainstream attention, J Robert Oppenheimer was recruited to lead a team that would construct the world’s first atomic bombs. Ukraine
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