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    President Trump rolled out the full ceremony treatment for Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, including a state dinner at the White House, even as the two leaders sat down to hash out one of the world's most complicated rivalries. Xi's first Washington visit in more than a decade opened...... Read more »
  • Docuseries to Examine Buffalo Bills Fans' Wait
    Bills fans who still wince at the phrase "wide right" are getting their own therapy session in documentary form. Tubi will roll out Just One Before I Die on Oct. 21, a five-part series built around the "Bills Mafia" faithful and their decades-long plea for a Super Bowl title, per...... Read more »
  • Government Picks Up Tab for TV Ads Praising Trump
    TV viewers may be seeing something they've never seen before: a campaign-style commercial promoting President Trump and stamped as funded by the US government. The cable ad, airing on Fox News in Los Angeles and Newsmax in Chicago, strings together upbeat images of Trump, campaign slogans, and snippets of his...... Read more »
  • Thousands See Fulton Sheen Beatified, Including His Miracle
    As tens of thousands of Catholic worshippers stood Thursday in a football stadium-turned-temporary cathedral, all eyes focused on a teenage boy walking solemnly toward the makeshift altar, accompanied by his parents and siblings. James Fulton Engstrom, 16, carried an ornate vessel containing the relics of his namesake, the man whom...... Read more »
  • Bob Pettit, the NBA's First MVP and 20K-Point Scorer, Dies at 93
    Bob Pettit, the relentless power forward who became the NBA's first MVP and its original 20,000-point scorer, has died. He was 93. Pettit's alma mater, Louisiana State University, announced Thursday that he died a day earlier, per the AP . Drafted No. 2 by the Milwaukee Hawks in 1954, the...... Read more »
  • There's a Small Upside to Clogged Strait of Hormuz
    There's a very slight green lining to the Iran war, and it's for the planet, not the average consumer's wallet. Carbon Brief projects that climate-warming pollution from fossil fuels will edge down by roughly 0.5% in 2026, largely because the US-Iran conflict has disrupted traffic through the Strait of...... Read more »
  • Elizabeth Holmes Approved for Halfway House Transfer
    Elizabeth Holmes is set to leave prison for a halfway house three years before her scheduled release date. A Justice Department notice reviewed by ABC News shows the Theranos founder has been approved for transfer to the Austin Transitional Center, a halfway house near Austin, Texas, on Aug. 23, 2027....... Read more »
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  • Australian Biologists Livestream A Remote Desert Waterhole and All its Wild Visitors
    1.2 miles from the nearest car park, down a track which few hikers ply, in a national park few will have the opportunity to visit, a lonely camera livestreams the comings and goings of a desert waterhole to the world. For the dingoes, wallabies, frogs, occasional feral cat, and even... Read more »
  • Teens Set World Record for Most Sports Balls Recycled in One Day, Diverting 2,675 Pounds from Landfills
    In March, GNN reported on the attempt by teens to set a Guinness World Record for the most racquet sport balls recycled in a single day, and we’re happy to tell you: they pulled it off. It took awhile, but last weekend a group of teen environmentalists from California collected... Read more »
  • Millions Channeled to Irrigation Improvements, Leak Repairs Along Colorado River by Corporate Coalition
    On Monday, e-commerce giant Amazon announced a $20 million investment to conserve water in the Colorado River Basin that’s currently stressed by a mixture of demand and historic drought. In launching the Colorado River Basin Collaborative, (CRBC) and joining existing organizations the Water Resilience Coalition and The Climate Pledge, the... Read more »
  • Portuguese Company Turns Cork Wood into Limitless Material, Even to Insulate Spacecraft
    In Portugal, a 150-year-old business making corks is showing that it’s absolutely possible to teach an old dog new tricks. Having cultivated cork oak trees since the time of the monarchy, Corticeira Amorim have popped open the potential of this humble material, transforming it into a sustainable piece of sophisticated... Read more »
  • Good News in History September 24
    72 years ago today, the London street scene was made all the more iconic with the introduction of the Routemaster 8 (RM8) from AEC—becoming the double-decker red bus so associated with the British capital. A pioneering design, the Routemaster outlasted several of its replacement types in London, survived the privatization... Read more »
  • Bikes Outnumbered Cars on Scottish Rush Hour Route for the First Time Ever
    A combination of e-bike rentals and segregated bike lanes has boosted cycling in the Scottish capital to the point that bikes outnumbered cars during a May morning rush hour for the first time in history. The data, analyzed by the Scottish cycling charity Cycling Scotland, identified other areas where bike... Read more »
  • Long-Lost Gertrude Abercrombie Painting Bought by a Bargain Hunter for $30 Could Fetch $250,000
    At a Michigan estate sale in July, a “treasure hunter” noticed an undisturbed painting hanging in a hallway depicting a series of seashells on a dark grey and black field. More than the shells, it was the signature located in the bottom-left corner, which read “Abercrombie ’51” that piqued his... 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 »