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Biden tells Democrats he’s not leaving the race, and it’s time to stop talking about it
MPR News· 2 days agoPresident Biden sent a two-page letter to Democratic lawmakers on Monday to say that “I am firmly committed to staying in this race," saying speculation over his future was helping former President ...
Boeing agrees to plead guilty and pay a nearly quarter-billion dollar fine
MPR News· 2 days agoThe U.S. Justice Department says Boeing has accepted a deal to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from the crashes of two 737 Max jets in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.
Alec Baldwin goes on trial this week, nearly 3 years after fatal ‘Rust’ shooting
MPR News· 2 days agoActor and producer Alec Baldwin goes to trial in New Mexico this week for involuntary manslaughter. In October 2021, while he was rehearsing a scene for the western film “Rust,” the gun he was ...
Carpenter Ants Perform Life-Saving Amputations to Treat Leg Injuries
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 days ago“Not only can they do this, but they are even able to diagnose the wounds and, depending on the...
Greece's new 6-day workweek law takes effect, bucking a trend
MPR News· 5 days agoGreece enacted a new employment law this week that lays out a six-day workweek — at a time when dozens of other countries are increasingly seeing positive results from experiments with four-day ...
6 takeaways from Biden's high-stakes interview
MPR News· 4 days agoDemocrats have been in full panic mode about President Biden’s candidacy and ability to beat Donald Trump since Biden’s dismal debate performance last week. In an effort to quell that concern ...
Britain swings to the center-left in historic U.K. election landslide
MPR News· 5 days agoWith far-right politics ascendant across the English Channel in France, the United Kingdom has swung in the opposite direction. Official election results Friday showed a landslide victory for ...
The explosive history of fireworks, from ancient China to Revolutionary America
MPR News· 6 days agoOn any July Fourth or New Year’s Eve, it’s common to experience the loud pop of a firework or see it colorfully explode into the sky and hang there briefly. Pyrotechnic amusements from sparklers ...
Volunteers who lived in a NASA-created Mars replica for over a year have emerged
MPR News· 2 days agoFour volunteers who spent more than a year living in a 1,700-square-foot space created by NASA to simulate the environment on Mars have emerged. Haston and the other three crew members — Anca ...
Renters under pressure: When will the fever break in the hot rental market? - National |...
Global B.C.· 4 days agoAsk the average renter and they can tell you: Canadian rents have soared in recent years. The latest...