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NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on August 30, 2026, sending a powerful sky survey observatory toward its orbit beyond the Earth and Moon.
Dave Winfield details his decade long war with George Steinbrenner in a new book, saying the Yankees owner tried to ruin his name and wrecked his own instead.
Maryland has confirmed 31 measles cases this year against three in all of last year, and 27 of them arrived after July 15 among residents who were not vaccinated.
Meta explored cutting many of its teams by up to 60 percent under an AI native plan named Project OT, then Mark Zuckerberg called off the second layoff wave.
Thieves emptied most of the Treasure of Villena in four minutes, carrying off Bronze Age gold that has anchored the identity of a small Spanish town since 1963.
Toy Story 5 made 1.13 billion dollars telling children that a tablet was stealing their playtime, and on September 23 the film arrives on Disney Plus screens.
Thailand was never colonized by a European power, and the kingdom then known as Siam survived on diplomacy, reform and a careful performance of civilization.
Private equity owns about a tenth of the American childcare workforce and is not the reason the sector became unaffordable, the first systematic study of it finds.
The Grand Ole Opry is performing at Carnegie Hall on March 20, 2026, as part of the Hall's six-month festival celebrating America's 250th anniversary, while also marking the Opry's own centennial season. The event, featuring artists like Scotty McCreery, The War and Treaty, and Rhonda Vincent, is only the fourth time the Opry has performed at Carnegie Hall, continuing a relationship that dates back to 1947 when the Opry staged the first major country concert at the iconic venue.
The Trump administration is set to receive a roughly $10 billion fee from investors — including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX — as payment for brokering the deal that transferred control of TikTok's U.S. business from Chinese parent company ByteDance to a majority American-owned entity.
Bam Adebayo scored 83 points against the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history, surpassing Kobe Bryant's 81-point game and falling just short of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point record from 1962.
Niantic Spatial, the company behind Pokémon Go, has partnered with delivery robot maker Coco Robotics to steer sidewalk robots using a Visual Positioning System trained on more than 30 billion images captured by Pokémon Go players.
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art holds Iran's only Van Gogh, a rare 1882 lithograph titled At Eternity's Gate, one of just seven known prints, depicting an elderly resident of The Hague named Adrianus Zuyderland who was aged 72 at the time yet lived to 87.