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Former President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the U.S. threaten Russian President Vladimir Putin with American nuclear submarine patrols, which would likely dramatically escalate global tensions amid Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine.“You should say: ‘Look, you mention that word one more time and we’re gonna send [submarines] over and we’ll be coasting back and forth,…Continue Reading

A Russian court in Moscow on Monday ruled that Meta, the corporate owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is guilty of “extremist activities,” a designation that paves the way for severe curtailment of the company’s presence there.A representative from the Russian prosecutor general’s office told the state-owned news agency TASS that Facebook and Instagram are…Continue Reading

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in.We had been documenting the siege of the Ukrainian city by Russian troops for more than two weeks and were the only international journalists left in the city. We were reporting inside the…Continue Reading

Dozens of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant employees who were forced by Russian troops to stay at the facility for 600 hours were finally allowed to leave Sunday.Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, welcomed the workers’ release, but warned that it was long overdue. The plant employees “deserve our full respect…Continue Reading

BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade.More than seven hours after communication was lost with the plane, there…Continue Reading

PG-13 | 1hr 32min | Screwball Rom-com | December 25, 2022 In the spirit of “King Solomon’s Mines” (and the “lost world” literary genre) but especially “Romancing the Stone,” “The Lost City” is basically an old-fashioned treasure hunt and screwball rom-com wherein the male and female leads have classic, “hurry up and get it over with”…Continue Reading

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A growing number of police and sheriff’s departments across the United States are sending out warnings about the so-called “Orbeez challenge,” claiming it’s a dangerous new trend spreading via TikTok. They say that the challenge encourages others to attack unsuspecting individuals with an Orbeez gun, which fires a gel pellet. “We continue to see teenagers…Continue Reading

Employees are seen working on the final assembly of ASML’s TWINSCAN NXE:3400B semiconductor lithography tool with its panels removed, in Veldhoven, Netherlands, on April 4, 2019. (Bart van Overbeeke Fotografie/ASML/Handout via Reuters) ASML Holding NV CEO Peter Wennink warned about the critical equipment crisis as the supply chains struggled to drive production, the Financial Times reports.…Continue Reading