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Last week’s report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contained a dire warning: Radical action is needed to cut worldwide carbon emissions 60 percent by 2035 and avert the worst effects of a climate disaster. The report raised the stakes in the ongoing race to decarbonize the world’s industries, with technologies that can produce energy without releasing carbon dioxide or that can directly remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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On Monday, in the latest dramatic installment of the ski collision trial between Gwyneth Paltrow and Terry Sanderson, Paltrow’s attorney grilled Sanderson on the email he sent hours after the crash in which he told his daughters, “I’m famous.”

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Lucky Hank seems like it’ll be a much slower burn than star Bob Odenkirk’s previous AMC show. But considering it’s the kind of dark comedy where an entire episode centers around our antihero’s rivalry with a real-life literary titan, this is a slow burn I am very much here for.

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The Florida plastic surgeon accused of murdering an attorney who went missing at his law office during a bathroom break had a bloody ballistic vest, masks, “intravenous” sedatives, brass knuckles, duct tape, and a taser inside his car when he was pulled over by authorities on Saturday, police said.

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When news broke on Sunday night that the storied journalism institution known as The Texas Observer—the great incubator of national industry talent and Lone Star State muckraker once helmed by the irreverent Molly Ivins—a wave of fury, sadness, and hopelessness washed over the state’s press corps.

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Three young sisters who disappeared from their Texas home last year before searchers found their bodies in a nearby pond had not drowned, but were strangled to death before being dumped in the water, according to local authorities—and the children’s mom says she “suspected foul play from the jump.”

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Israel’s judicial overhaul, which has sparked massive outcry and protests, is being put on hold, Israel’s national security minister announced Monday.

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At least three children and two adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday morning, authorities said.

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A former Tucker Carlson producer is now accusing Fox News of retaliation after the network fired her on Friday following her lawsuit alleging a hostile work environment.

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Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff dodged a bullet on Monday, as the hyper-aggressive activist investor Elliott Management announced that it would no longer try to nominate members to the company’s board, helping stave off a potentially ugly battle.

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You might not realize it, but water is a lot more common on the moon than you probably think—albeit not in its liquid form. Instead, water shows up as ice all over the lunar surface. While it’s not as prevalent as our own wet planet, lunar water has the potential to be a very valuable resource for future lunar colonies—so as long as we know where to look for it.

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On Sunday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defense minister. Twenty-four hours earlier, Gallant had defied his boss and urged the Knesset, the country’s parliament, to pause its efforts to degrade the judiciary. For the first time since 1973, the Jewish State roils amid existential crises.

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The family of a boy who went missing in Texas left the U.S. on a flight to Turkey before an Amber Alert was issued for the 6-year-old over the weekend, authorities say.

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King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Simpson in 1936, has long been rumored to have passed critical information to the Nazis to enable them to target the royal family’s living quarters when they bombed Buckingham Palace in 1940.

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Prince Harry made a stunning appearance at London’s High Court on Monday for the first hearing of a lawsuit accusing the publisher of the Daily Mail of phone-tapping and privacy breaches.

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An American senior citizen allegedly suffered a potentially fatal attack in the West Bank as part of a surge in violence that has gripped the Israeli-occupied region since Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power at the head of an extreme right-wing coalition.

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Slowly but surely, the 2024 Senate cycle is shaping up, with eager candidates or battle-tested incumbents throwing their hats in the ring. Some campaigns are being launched. Others are brewing behind the scenes. And in some states, party operatives are already homing in on their preferred contenders for competitive contests.

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When we asked Christina Ricci how dark and disturbing Season 2 of Yellowjackets goes in terms of its gruesome horror content, she said she audibly gasped when she first read the scripts. “Not in an upset way, but more excited,” she said. “There’s an ear thing in the first episode that reminded me of Reservoir Dogs. That was my favorite movie when I was 14, so I was really excited about that.”

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“There’s a WW in Exam Room 3. Good luck with that one,” my colleague called out to me in reference to my next patient. I grabbed the chart, looked at her complaints, took a deep breath to steel myself, and walked into the exam room.

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Since they first appeared on screen in 2018, the characters of HBO’s Succession have surprisingly stolen the hearts of millions of viewers. Despite their wavering politics, the show has been sympathetic to its characters, showing them as multifaceted—albeit immoral—people who make mistakes and suffer the consequences. These characters have resulted in Emmy wins for their actors, much-discussed profiles, and, most important of all, countless fanworks. Читать дальше...

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Silicon Valley Bank has a new owner.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which currently controls the institution and its assets, announced in a statement Monday morning that it had “entered into a purchase and assumption agreement for all deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, National Association, by First–Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Raleigh, North Carolina.”

The news came after several reports late Sunday, including from Reuters and Bloomberg... Читать дальше...

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A group of American archaeologists from New York University has made two important discoveries while working in the area of ​​the temple of Ramses II, uncovering an ancient building and more than 2,000 mummified rams’ heads from the Ptolemaic period.

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As we enter the fourth and final season of Succession, every moment with the Roys is precious. The series creators know this, and in turn, have given us a jam-packed Season 4 premiere episode full of new companies, family drama, and a sex tape. Succession is back, baby!

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There’s a quote about humor that’s often attributed to writer E.B. White: “Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.” While that adage has shown that it can be very true time and again, that hasn’t stopped one of the world’s most powerful chatbots from doing so.