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USS Abraham Lincoln Under Pressure: Top U.S. Commander Visits Carrier as Sailor Families Demand Answers
USS Abraham Lincoln Under Pressure: Top U.S. Commander Visits Carrier as Sailor Families Demand Answers The USS Abraham Lincoln has become the center of a growing debate over the cost of America’s prolonged military operations against Iran. As the aircraft carrier prepares for relief after an unusually long deployment, U.S. Central Command chief Adm. Brad...
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Virginia State University Shooting Leaves Five Injured After Welcome Celebration as Suspect Is Arrested on Campus
Virginia State University Shooting Leaves Five Injured After Welcome Celebration as Suspect Is Arrested on Campus A shooting at Virginia State University has left five people injured, according to reports, triggering a major police response on campus just hours after a welcome celebration. Authorities later arrested a suspect who was reportedly found hiding in a...
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Quartz Countertop Crisis: 31 Dead and Nearly 600 California Workers Sickened by Silicosis
Quartz Countertop Crisis: 31 Dead and Nearly 600 California Workers Sickened by Silicosis A growing occupational-health crisis in California is putting the spotlight on an unexpected workplace hazard: engineered quartz countertops. Nearly 600 countertop fabrication workers have been diagnosed with silicosis since 2019, and at least 31 have died, according to newly reported California data....
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Lexington Park Shooting Leaves 1 Dead and 4 Injured, Including a 4-Year-Old: What We Know
Lexington Park Shooting Leaves 1 Dead and 4 Injured, Including a 4-Year-Old: What We Know A community gathering in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, turned into a deadly scene Saturday evening after gunfire erupted at Charles Young Park, killing one person and injuring four others, including two children. Police say the investigation remains active, while officials have...
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Trump Takes White House Ballroom Fight to Supreme Court as Emergency Docket Heats Up
Trump Takes White House Ballroom Fight to Supreme Court as Emergency Docket Heats Up The Trump administration has taken the White House ballroom dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to allow construction to continue while the legal battle moves forward. The move has pushed the controversial project onto the Supreme Court’s emergency...
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SpaceX Just Broke Another Launch Record: Two Falcon 9 Rockets Took Off Minutes Apart
SpaceX Just Broke Another Launch Record: Two Falcon 9 Rockets Took Off Minutes Apart SpaceX has delivered another striking demonstration of its rapid-launch capability, sending two Falcon 9 missions into orbit in the same evening with only about 38 minutes separating the liftoffs. The back-to-back launches involved the USSF-366 mission from California and the Globalstar...
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CBS News’ Matt Gutman Named in Harassment Lawsuit: What the Former ABC Producer Alleged
CBS News’ Matt Gutman Named in Harassment Lawsuit: What the Former ABC Producer Alleged CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman has been named in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by former ABC News field producer Samira Said, who alleges that inappropriate and sexualized workplace comments contributed to a hostile working environment during her time at ABC...
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NATO Jet Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia: Baltic Airspace Tension Rises as Russia Threat Concerns Grow
NATO Jet Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia: Baltic Airspace Tension Rises as Russia Threat Concerns Grow A NATO fighter jet has shot down a drone after it entered Latvian airspace, putting fresh attention on the vulnerability of NATO’s eastern flank and the increasingly difficult problem of identifying and intercepting unmanned aircraft near the Russia-Ukraine war....
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Raju Pan Bhandaar Is Turning a Simple Pan Shop Into an Internet Hangout — The New Live Chat Trend Explained
Raju Pan Bhandaar Is Turning a Simple Pan Shop Into an Internet Hangout — The New Live Chat Trend Explained What started as a nostalgic 90s-style pan-shop concept is becoming something much bigger online. Raju Pan Bhandaar is experimenting with a format that feels less like a conventional website and more like a digital roadside...