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Why China Is Drilling A 32,808-Feet-Deep Hole Into The Earth’s Crust
The narrow shaft into the ground will penetrate more than 10 continental strata, or layers of rock and reach the cretaceous system in the Earth’s crust. Chinese scientists have begun drilling a 10,000-meter (32,808 feet)…
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Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes To Begin 11-Year Prison Sentence Today
39-year-old Holmes is expected to report to the prison camp in Bryan, Texas, an all-female facility about 100 miles outside of Houston, today. Fallen US biotech star, Elizabeth Holmes is set to report to prison…
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Pride Toronto considering cuts to festival amid soaring policing, insurance costs: organizers
Police say costs up due to event size, collective bargaining; insurer did not comment. The head of Pride Toronto says the group may need to cut programming at this year’s festival as it wrestles with…
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Trump Rival Ron DeSantis To Launch White House Bid Today
DeSantis was to kick off his presidential bid during a live Twitter event with Elon Musk, the platform’s mercurial owner, a source familiar with the plans told AFP. Republican Ron DeSantis is to announce his…
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NBCUniversal Executive Linda Yaccarino Replaces Elon Musk As Twitter CEO
On Thursday, Elon Musk had tweeted that he had found a CEO without naming Yaccarino. One person close to Yaccarino said Musk’s tweet may well have accelerated the timetable for her to join Twitter. Former…
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Denmark To Set Up $1 Billion Aid For Ukraine
“The government has agreed to establish a fund for Ukraine with a total framework of around seven billion kroner ($1 billion) in 2023,” Denmark’s finance ministry said in a statement. Denmark will set up a…
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Iran arrests more than 100 people over suspected poisonings of schoolgirls
Iran has arrested more than 100 people “in connection with” the suspected poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls across the country, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Citing a statement from Iran’s Interior Ministry, IRNA…
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Massive Fire In Hong Kong Skyscraper, No Casualties
Officials said the fire broke out at 11:11 pm (1511 GMT) in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, a busy shopping and tourist district on the city’s harbourfront. A construction site for a Hong Kong…
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Engineers, Data Experts Among Over 200 Employees Fired By Twitter
Esther Crawford, in charge of the social network’s product development, was one of the employees let go, according to the Times. Twitter has laid off at least 200 employees, or 10 percent of its workforce,…
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Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy Announces 2024 US Presidential Bid
Mr Ramaswamy, 37, whose parents migrated to the United States from Kerala and worked at a General Electric plant in Ohio. Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has launched his 2024 presidential bid with a promise…
