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1865, Union cavalry troopers cornered and shot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
1865, Union cavalry troopers cornered and shot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
1986, A nuclear reactor accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
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Virginia Giuffre, a woman who accused the late Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse when she was a teenager, died by suicide on Thursday, her family said. She was 41. Weeks before she died, Giuffre claimed she was hit by a school bus and only had days to live.
She and the Duke of York settled the case out of court for an estimated $12 million in 2022. Andrew denied any wrongdoing, but the royal’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, stripped him of his military titles as a result of the scandal.
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India and Pakistan both control parts of Kashmir but claim it in full, and have fought three wars over the mountainous territory. All but one of the 26 tourists massacred in the attack in Kashmir on Tuesday were Indian citizens. New Delhi blamed Pakistan, downgraded ties, and suspended its participation in a crucial water-sharing treaty.
The enormous Indus River system, which supports hundreds of millions of livelihoods across Pakistan and northern India, originates in Tibet, flowing through China and Indian-controlled Kashmir before reaching Pakistan. The vast volume of water is a crucial resource for both countries, and the treaty governs how it is shared.
A Pakistan government statement said any attempt to stop or divert water belonging to Pakistan would be considered an act of war.
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The first GLP-1 weight-loss pill is a step closer. Eli Lilly said its experimental pill met its goals in a pivotal study, helping diabetes patients lower blood sugar—and even reduce weight—bringing an oral version of the booming class of drugs closer to market. The results keep Lilly ahead of rivals like Pfizer, which pulled its experimental pill over side effects.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the department's Global Engagement Center, which works to identify false information campaigns from Russia, China, and Iran, was shut down for restricting free speech in the U.S.. Read that again.
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An American man identified as the son of a deputy director of the CIA was killed in eastern Ukraine in 2024 while fighting under contract for the Russian military, according to an investigation by independent Russian media.
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Where you live—what city, what country—has more impact on your well-being than any other factor. Where you live is one of the few things in your life you can choose and change.
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Addiction kills more Americans than cancer or heart disease, but only 4% of people with substance use disorders currently receive medication.
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Wolves do not make good guard dogs because they are naturally afraid of the unfamiliar and will hide from visitors rather than bark at them.
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India and Pakistan both control parts of Kashmir but claim it in full, and have fought three wars over the mountainous territory. All but one of the 26 tourists massacred in the attack in Kashmir on Tuesday were Indian citizens. New Delhi blamed Pakistan, downgraded ties, and suspended its participation in a crucial water-sharing treaty.
The enormous Indus River system, which supports hundreds of millions of livelihoods across Pakistan and northern India, originates in Tibet, flowing through China and Indian-controlled Kashmir before reaching Pakistan. The vast volume of water is a crucial resource for both countries, and the treaty governs how it is shared.
A Pakistan government statement said any attempt to stop or divert water belonging to Pakistan would be considered an act of war.
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The first GLP-1 weight-loss pill is a step closer. Eli Lilly said its experimental pill met its goals in a pivotal study, helping diabetes patients lower blood sugar—and even reduce weight—bringing an oral version of the booming class of drugs closer to market. The results keep Lilly ahead of rivals like Pfizer, which pulled its experimental pill over side effects.
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5% of United passengers check in at an airport kiosk, an all-time low, the airline said this week. The majority of passengers (85%) check in on the airline’s mobile app or online.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the department's Global Engagement Center, which works to identify false information campaigns from Russia, China, and Iran, was shut down for restricting free speech in the U.S.. Read that again.
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70% of tomatoes are imported from Mexico.
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The Netherlands, which is a bit bigger than Maryland, has become the world’s second-largest exporter of agricultural products by value behind the United States. Perhaps even more significant in the face of a warming planet: It is among the largest exporters of agricultural and food technology. The Dutch have pioneered cell-cultured meat, vertical farming, seed technology, and robotics in milking and harvesting — spearheading innovations that focus on decreased water usage as well as reduced carbon and methane emissions…
The country has nearly 24,000 acres — almost twice the size of Manhattan — of crops growing in greenhouses. These greenhouses, with less fertilizer and water, can grow in a single acre what would take 10 acres of traditional dirt farming to achieve. Dutch farms use only a half-gallon of water to grow about a pound of tomatoes, while the global average is more than 28 gallons.
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The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, was measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire
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“According to one survey of Gen Z respondents by Soter Analytics, only 14 percent of respondents said they might consider a job in manufacturing.”
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Forty percent of small business owners in March reported job openings they couldn’t fill, with larger shares in construction (56%), transportation (53%), and manufacturing (47%), according to last week’s National Federation of Independent Business survey. The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey of businesses tells a similar story. There are twice as many job openings in manufacturing than in the mid-2000s as a share of employment. Save for during the pandemic, America’s worker shortage is the worst in 50 years.
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The Netherlands, which is a bit bigger than Maryland, has become the world’s second-largest exporter of agricultural products by value behind the United States. Perhaps even more significant in the face of a warming planet: It is among the largest exporters of agricultural and food technology. The Dutch have pioneered cell-cultured meat, vertical farming, seed technology, and robotics in milking and harvesting — spearheading innovations that focus on decreased water usage as well as reduced carbon and methane emissions…
The country has nearly 24,000 acres — almost twice the size of Manhattan — of crops growing in greenhouses. These greenhouses, with less fertilizer and water, can grow in a single acre what would take 10 acres of traditional dirt farming to achieve. Dutch farms use only a half-gallon of water to grow about a pound of tomatoes, while the global average is more than 28 gallons.
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The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, was measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire
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“According to one survey of Gen Z respondents by Soter Analytics, only 14 percent of respondents said they might consider a job in manufacturing.”
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Forty percent of small business owners in March reported job openings they couldn’t fill, with larger shares in construction (56%), transportation (53%), and manufacturing (47%), according to last week’s National Federation of Independent Business survey. The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey of businesses tells a similar story. There are twice as many job openings in manufacturing than in the mid-2000s as a share of employment. Save for during the pandemic, America’s worker shortage is the worst in 50 years.
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Where you live—what city, what country—has more impact on your well-being than any other factor. Where you live is one of the few things in your life you can choose and change.
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Addiction kills more Americans than cancer or heart disease, but only 4% of people with substance use disorders currently receive medication.
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87% of companies with revenues above $100m are private.
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothesized type of highly autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) that would match or surpass human capabilities across most or all economically valuable cognitive work. 15k researchers are working on AGI, in America. The U.S. has more people working on AGI than the rest of the world combined.
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As of 2019, Russian male life expectancy at age 15 looks to be solidly in the middle of the range for the UN’s official roster of least developed countries (LDCs)—the impoverished and fragile states designated as “the most disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the UN family.” If WHO calculations were correct, life expectancy for a young man in Russia was all but identical to that of his Haitian counterpart at that time—and practically half of the world’s LDCs in Figure 3 had higher life expectancies than Russia.
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothesized type of highly autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) that would match or surpass human capabilities across most or all economically valuable cognitive work. 15k researchers are working on AGI, in America. The U.S. has more people working on AGI than the rest of the world combined.
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As of 2019, Russian male life expectancy at age 15 looks to be solidly in the middle of the range for the UN’s official roster of least developed countries (LDCs)—the impoverished and fragile states designated as “the most disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the UN family.” If WHO calculations were correct, life expectancy for a young man in Russia was all but identical to that of his Haitian counterpart at that time—and practically half of the world’s LDCs in Figure 3 had higher life expectancies than Russia.
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Globally, women are having fewer children
In the United States, the 2022 fertility rate was 1.67 children per woman.
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