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Kennedy Center Shut Down
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a symbol of the value of art and musical expression’s impact on democracy. In the past few months, though, the center has become embroiled in political controversy. The Kennedy Center was first imagined under President Dwight D. Eisenhower to create a stage for the arts at the…
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Mass US Visa Revocations
In a significant escalation of executive action on U.S. border and immigration enforcement, the federal government is preparing a proposal to revoke non-immigrant visitor visas held by approximately 200,000 foreign nationals who have applied for or are currently pursuing asylum within the United States. Internal State Department documents and reports from the Associated Press reveal…
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Alexander Zverev: French Open and New US Open Champion
How many times can a player come close before “almost” becomes the only thing people remember? For Alexander Zverev, that question followed him for years. He had the talent, the powerful serve, the massive forehand, and the ability to compete with the best players in the world, yet the one trophy that mattered most continued to…
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Apple’s 2026 Event
For years, Apple fans (and I) have watched other companies fold their phones in half and wondered the same thing: When will Apple finally do it? In 2026, the answer finally arrived. At Apple’s September event, the company introduced the iPhone Duo, its first-ever foldable iPhone, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. But…
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Northern White Rhinos Now Extinct
There are two types of white rhino — northern and southern. The northern white rhino is down to two animals, Najin and Fatu. They live at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, under 24-hour armed guard. Both are female. The last male, Sudan, died back in 2018. Let’s do the math: no male, no babies,…
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Nepal-Tibet Flood
Nepal, already widely recognized as a country likely to feel climate change’s impacts the strongest, experienced a catastrophic flood after an ice chunk as large as the Empire State Building broke off of a glacier at the Nepal-Tibet border. To give an idea of how powerful the phenomenon was, it was first classified as a…
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