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  • Israeli Cybersecurity Official Charged With Soliciting US Minor
    An Israeli cybersecurity official accused of soliciting a 15-year-old girl in Las Vegas has left the US after he was bonded out of jail. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's questioned the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case , claimed the government had "release[d] a child sex predator... Read more »
  • Where's That America Party, Musk?
    Unhappy with President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," Elon Musk vowed to start a new political party , and after polling X users in early July, announced "the America Party is formed." Six weeks later, we know essentially nothing about the America Party—which might be by design. Musk is backing off...... Read more »
  • Target Names New CEO Who's Coming in With 'Urgency'
    Target CEO Brian Cornell, who helped reenergize the company but has struggled to turn around weak sales in a more competitive retail landscape since the COVID pandemic, plans to step down on Feb. 1. Minneapolis-based Target Corp. said Wednesday that COO Michael Fiddelke, a 20-year company veteran, will succeed Cornell,...... Read more »
  • Vegas Club Thought It Had Bieber on Stage. Nope
    A Justin Bieber lookalike caused a stir at a Las Vegas nightclub after slipping past staff and performing on stage —only to be swiftly unmasked and banned from the venue. The man identified as Dylan Desclos had managed to convince XS Nightclub staff that he was the superstar singer, gaining...... Read more »
  • Eye on Gaza, Israel to Call Up 60K Reservists
    Israel's military will start calling up 60,000 reservists, and extend active duty for some 20,000 reservists already serving in the country's exhausted army, as it proceeds with its planned occupation of Gaza City , an official told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. It reports reservists will receive letters...... Read more »
  • Israel Meets Calls for Palestinian State With Controversial Settlement Project
    Israel gave final approval for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two, and that Palestinians and rights groups say could destroy plans for a future Palestinian state. Settlement development in E1, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, has...... Read more »
  • Justice Dept. Is Taking a Look at DC's Crime Stats
    The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into whether the police department in Washington, DC, manipulated crime statistics to make the city appear safer, according to sources familiar with the case. The probe, which is being run by the federal prosecutor's office in DC, puts local officials under new...... Read more »
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  • Local Communities Protecting Millions of Acres of Orangutan Habitat Beyond Nat. Park Boundaries
    On the island of Borneo, forest-dwelling communities have become key to ensuring that orangutans have enough intact forest to survive and thrive down the centuries. Documented by the Nature Conservancy, which is assisting in establishing and equipping these forest communities for conservation, these communities maintain millions of acres of forests... Read more »
  • Good News in History, August 20
    Happy 90th birthday to the former Congressman from Texas, Dr. Ron Paul. Before serving three terms as representative of the 22nd and 14th Congressional districts, the country doctor delivered an average of 1 baby per day, amounting to over 4,000 little ones because he was the only OB/GYN in Brazoria... Read more »
  • Florida Coral Nursery Spawns for the First Time Since 2023, Contributing to Reef Resilience
    Beneath the waves of Key Largo, staghorn coral have spawned in mass since a 2023 bleaching event that left marine biologists worried over the reefs’ future. The once-a-year phenomenon can happen only on a select few days, and lasts only a few minutes. It’s difficult to predict, and relies on... Read more »
  • Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from
    From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved from. The discovery centers around teeth: that of a member of the genus Homo, of which we are a part, found next to the tooth of Australopithecus, the last in a line of... Read more »
  • 4 National Guardsmen Save a Man’s Life After Stopping for Lunch in Poland
    Their motto reads “Always ready, always there,” and when four national guardsmen from Alabama walked into a Burger King, that’s exactly what they were. The story comes from Skwierzyna, a town about 80 miles west of the headquarters of the US Army in Poland. Sgt. 1st Class Alicia Haggins, Staff... Read more »
  • People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About the Future: We Know Because They Said So
    With civil wars in Myanmar and Sudan, climate change manifestations the world over, instability across the Middle East, and geopolitical tensions abounding in East Asia, Europe, and North America, one would imagine the global population to have a pessimistic outlook on things. But the annual Gallup Life Evaluation Index found... Read more »
  • Good News in History, August 19
    This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—August 19. The post Good News in History, August 19 appeared first on Good News Network.... Read more »
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  • Millions of new solar system objects to be found and 'filmed in technicolor' -- studies predict
    Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.... Read more »
  • First direct observation of the trapped waves that shook the world in 2023
    A new study has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September -- October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became trapped standing waves. Using a brand-new type of satellite altimetry, the researchers provide the first observations to confirm the existence of... Read more »
  • Black holes could act as natural supercolliders -- and help uncover dark matter
    Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would otherwise take decades and billions to pursue.... Read more »
  • Webb reveals the origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b
    Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected atmospheric dynamics: Despite extreme heat, methane was detected on the... Read more »
  • Dancing brainwaves: How sound reshapes your brain networks in real time
    What happens inside your brain when you hear a steady rhythm or musical tone? According to a new study, your brain doesn't just hear it -- it reorganizes itself in real time.... Read more »
  • Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues
    Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.... Read more »
  • New laser smaller than a penny can measure objects at ultrafast rates
    Researchers have engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of the most delicate experiments in existence to observe and understand our universe.... Read more »