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Oil execs warn of future ‘catastrophic price shock’ caused by Trump: ‘It will be painful’
“There’s a day of reckoning coming.” That is the opinion of a prominent oil industry executive who is predicting a major surge in prices at the gas pump as Donald Trump’s war on Iran, and the accompanying closure of the Strait of Hormuz, drags on. As oil prices surge and supply dwindles globally, energy experts
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Titan submarine victims’ bodies were returned as ‘slush’ in ‘shoeboxes’
A grief-stricken mom who lost both her husband and their teenage son in the doomed Titan submarine disaster has revealed their remains were eventually returned to her as “slush” in tiny “shoeboxes.” Christine Dawood — whose husband, Shahzada, and their 19-year-old son, Sulaiman, were killed when their submarine imploded enroute to view to the Titanic
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Perfect homework, blank stares: Why colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI
The assignment involves no laptop, no chatbot and no technology of any kind. In fact, there’s no pen or paper, either. Instead, students in Chris Schaffer’s biomedical engineering class at Cornell University are required to speak directly to an instructor in what he calls an “oral defense.” It’s a testing method as old as Socrates
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‘I feel dumb’: Trump voters fed up with president spill their ‘disappointment’ to NYT
A dozen voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2024 expressed disillusionment with his second term as part of a focus group convened by the New York Times. The 79-year-old president still enjoys 80 percent approval among Republicans, but his standing with independents has cratered, and many of his own voters – like those who
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Stop Trying to Unmask Satoshi Nakamoto
The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, remains one of the blockchain’s great mysteries. Countless news articles, documentaries, and bits of internet speculation have attempted to unmask Satoshi to no avail. Earlier this month, The New York Times published a massive investigation into who they believed was behind Bitcoin. The man they
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Marcello Hernández: Catch him, if you can
When Marcello Hernández speaks, his voice takes ebullient leaps and bounds. He tells jokes with the same musical cadence of the Caribbean songs his parents raised him on; classics by Juan Luis Guerra, Celia Cruz and Tito El Bambino. “My dad is like a funny little Dominican guy and then my Cuban mom is this
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Prep talk: High jumper Dean Guzman of Moorpark clears 7-foot barrier
Dean Guzman of Moorpark has trained for years to surpass the barrier every high jumper dreams of breaking — 7 feet. It happened at the Mt. SAC Relays, where he set a school record and beat the defending state champion, his friend, JJ Harel, of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. His coaches started screaming. “Hands up
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Bill Maher and David Cross’ interview turns into an argument on trans rights: ‘Looney left’
Bill Maher and the comedian David Cross butted heads as they clashed over transgender politics and the so-called “looney left” – before the podcast host quipped “Good luck with President Vance.” The duo exchanged a war of words on Maher’s podcast “Club Random” Monday over transgender women competing in female sports before Cross casually mentioned
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First time: Sumatra orangutan seen using a canopy bridge built just for animals
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A Sumatran orangutan has been recorded in what conservationists said is the first documented case of the species using an artificial canopy bridge to cross a public road that had divided its habitat. “This was the moment we had been waiting for,” Erwin Alamsyah Siregar, executive director of Indonesian conservation group Tangguh Hutan Khatulistiwa,
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MAHA wellness culture is coming for teens. Grown-ups aren’t ready.
For years, the “Make America Healthy Again” movement was driven by moms. Concerned about the safety of childhood vaccines and about chemicals in the food their kids were eating, they helped propel Donald Trump to the White House — and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the role of the nation’s top health influencer — with