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Uganda's leading media outlets shut down by army chief
BBC NewsNTV and Daily Monitor say their offices in the capital are under "military siege".
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Argentina show they can win without Messi but, eve...
espn.com - SOCCERArgentina found success against Jordan without Lionel Messi, but the 38-year-old still made an impact off the bench to extend his goal record.
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Michigan AdvanceTremont Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, has only one stop light, but the 300-person community is now at the center of the national immigration debate. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is pla...
Read article →America can't get enough of protein. The dairy industry can't keep up
US Top News and AnalysisDemand for whey protein is off the charts as American diet trends change and GLP-1s boom, and the dairy industry is struggling to produce enough.
Read article →Copy of A 48-team World Cup was made for countries like Ca...
espn.com - SOCCERThe big nations win the World Cup, but the small nations make it. Cape Verde's progress to the knockouts was for everyone.
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espn.com - SOCCERWhen the World Cup ends, 47 teams will have been eliminated, and we're grading every one on how their run compared with expectations.
Read article →Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor reveals the lousy advice he got from Ben Starr
Polygon.comClair Obscur Expedition 33's Rich Keeble chats with Polygon about the success of the game, his nerves in the booth, and more.
Read article →Three firefighters killed on Colorado-Utah border as wildfires intensify
NPR Topics: NewsThe deaths occurred as crews battled multiple blazes across a parched region. Two other firefighters were also injured.
Read article →Pape: US trying to ‘squeak out of strategic defeat’ after Iran
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al JazeeraPolitical scientist Robert Pape argues the fallout of Iran war curbs US hubris and challenges Trump’s self-image.
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Blue Origin Awarded NASA Contract to Provide Lunar Lander for Artemis V Moon Mission
NASANASA awarded Blue Origin a $3.4 billion contract in May 2023 to design, develop, and test a human landing system for the Artemis V mission, making Jeff Bezos's aerospace company the program's second lunar lander provider alongside SpaceX. Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander, standing approximately 52 feet tall, will dock with the Gateway lunar orbital station before descending to the Moon's surface, with the contract including an uncrewed demonstration landing before the crewed Artemis V mission currently scheduled for 2029. Blue Origin will partner with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper, Astrobotic, and Honeybee Robotics to build the system, competing architecturally with SpaceX's Starship-based lander contracted for earlier Artemis missions. The award followed Blue Origin's unsuccessful legal challenge to NASA's 2021 sole-source contract award to SpaceX, which was resolved only after Congress appropriated additional funds specifically to enable selection of a second provider.
Read Full Story →Revisiting the Myth of Western Civilization's Origins
Literary HubThe concept of Western civilization as a coherent tradition stretching from ancient Greece through Rome to modern Europe is, historians argue, more ideological invention than historical reality, a narrative largely constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries to provide a mythologized lineage for Enlightenment political ideas and to justify European colonial dominance. Scholars have documented how the ancient Greeks themselves acknowledged extensive intellectual debts to Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian predecessors, debts that later European scholars systematically minimized to portray Western thought as self-generated.
Read article →Swimming Pools on Martha's Vineyard Gain Popularity Amid Summer Rental Demand
Vineyard GazetteSwimming pools have proliferated across Martha's Vineyard at an accelerating pace, with more than 750 pool permits issued in Edgartown and Chilmark alone over the past two decades, driven by competition among rental property owners to offer amenities that command significant weekly premiums. Realtors described pool installation as a calculated investment rather than a luxury, with return on construction cost measured in rental income within a handful of seasons.
Read article →Bookshop.org: Empowering Independent Bookstores in the Digital Age
Publishers WeeklyBookshop.org, the online marketplace launched in 2020 with an explicit mission to support independent bookstores, has distributed over $35 million to more than 2,200 independent booksellers across the United States, functioning as a direct alternative to Amazon by routing a portion of every sale back to participating local shops. In 2023 the platform replaced IndieBound as the American Booksellers Association's official partner for linking to books online, significantly expanding its reach and visibility.
Read article →The NFL's Gambling Policy: the Need for Uniformity and Integrity"
CBS SportsThe NFL suspended 10 players during the spring and summer of 2023 for violating its gambling policy, with some found to have placed bets on games involving their own teams, exposing significant inconsistencies in how players understood the rules governing wagering in an era of rapidly expanding legalized sports betting. The league issued fresh guidance to all teams acknowledging that the national proliferation of legal sportsbooks since the Supreme Court's 2018 Murphy v. NCAA decision had fundamentally changed the environment in which players operate, without a commensurate update in cultural norms around gambling in professional sports.
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