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[video] We have lift off! 🙌🚀 Artemis II successfully launched into Earth’s orbit from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, marking the crucial first step in mankind’s historic return to deep space and the moon.

[image] Fatou, the world's oldest gorilla living in captivity, celebrated her 69th birthday with a feast Monday of cherry tomatoes, beets, leeks and lettuce at the Berlin Zoo. There was no birthday cake because sugar isn't good for the aging primate. Famous is a western lowland gorilla

[image] A new study from NYU Langone Health partially attributed close to 2 million preterm births in 2018 - about 8% of the world's total that year - to exposure to just 1 chemical found in household products like cosmetics, detergents, and bug repellents. Di-2-ethylhexylphthalate

[image] Leaked military documents show Iran used a Chinese satellite to target US bases in the Middle East. Launched in 2024 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had acquired the TEE-O1B satellite, and time stamps show it was used last month in the targeted attack on US bases.

[image] As many of 1,000 members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps may be embedded across Canada - and pose a serious threat to the US. Canada's liberal government is doing little to nothing to address the problem according to an opposition member and the "shadow minister"

[video] Brave women are protesting with students in Tehran.

[image] North Korean leader Kim Jung Un observed a test of a high-thrust solid-fuel engine for weapons and hailed it as a development to boost the country's strategic military capabilities. The test indicates that Kim is intent on enlarging and developing missiles capable of reaching the

[image] Officials in Cuba reported an island-wide blackout on Monday in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crisis deepen. Cuba blames the crisis on the US energy blockade put on by President Trump. While Cuba produces 40% of it's energy needs, it hasn't been

[image] President Trump confirmed the CIA's secret new "Ghost Murmur" tool was "very important" to rescuing the down pilot in Iran this week - as leading physicists and engineers debate how the futuristic technology, said to detect heartbeats at great distances might work. The president

[image] A moma bear and her 4 cubs have made a home underneath a New Jersey's family's porch - the critters were cute at first, but neighbors are searching for humane ways to get rid of them. The pack of bears have been hibernating for a few months, since the fall, but have recently

[image] President Trump made the case on Monday that passing the SAVE America Act will save Republicans in the fall midterm elections as well, while slamming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's opposition to the voter ID bill. "What a horrible politician," President Trump said of

[image] Green energy activists have turned their focus to a 10-year offshore wind farm in Humboldt Bay, about 300 miles north of San Francisco, and will cost billions of dollars. The project is expected to take 10 years to complete and will feature hundreds of wind towers taller than the

[image] A Florida man put it all on the line as he scrambled onto the roof of his car to protect it during a recent hailstorm. In case you are curious, he indeed confirmed it hurt and had the wrlps to prove it!

[image] ICE agents on Tuesday shot a member of the 18th Street Gang after he tried to run them over with his when they were executing an arrest warrant. The gang member is wanted in El Salvador in connection to a murder. The gang member was taken to the hospital and his condition is

[image] The Phoenix Fire Department responded to a call on Saturday from Lookout Mountain about a hiker who was stung multiple times by bees near the summit. Responding crews located a man who had been stung over 100 times by bees and was unable to continue his descent from the mountain.

[image] Staffers for Eric Swalwell - a Democratic favorite for California governor - are reportedly fleeing as disturbing claims emerged he se_ually assaulted a young former staffer. At least 4 people have "abruptly" quit the congressman's flailing campaign as a disturbing claim came out

[image] Washington DC has resorted to pushing pills in an effort to crack down on these dirty rats. DC Health has begun placing edible fertility control bait in problem rat areas in an effort to crack down on the rodent population. They also plan to use lethal bait as well in an effort

[image] 2/19/1945 Operation Detachment, the US Marines' invasion of Iowa Jima is launched. Iwo Jima was a barren island in the Pacific guarded by Japanese artillery, but to the Americans, it was prime real estate from which to build airfields to launch attacks on the Japanese mainland.

[image] Sen Tim Sheehy, R-Mont, was forced to make an emergency landing Friday after experiencing an in-flight engine failure. Sen Sheehy was conducting a routine flight training exercise, which he does twice a year, when the incident took place. Sheehy and his co-pilot landed the plane

[image] A 90-year-old grandmother broke a Guinness World Record for being the oldest woman to hold a dead hang. Ann Crile Esselstyn of Ohio held her body weight for 2 minutes and 52 seconds, beating out the previous title holder, 81-year-old Annie Judis of CA, who held on for 2 minutes

[image] A US Secret Service agent was injured after getting into an altercation with a man trying to jump over a construction bollard near the Treasury Building on the NE side of the White House complex. The agent suffered a laceration described as non-life- threatening. The nan me of

[image] The Israeli Parliament on Monday passed a law approving the d__th penalty for Palestinians convicted of m__dering Israelis. The bills passage marked the cumulation of a yearslong push by Israel's far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic

[image] The long-promised and futuristic "+ POOL" will embark on a "dry" run in the East River this summer as the project makes glacial progress toward a launch - but don't expect to take a dip in the water anytime soon. The test of the floating concept pool - which will be filled with