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Colombia’s earthquake is déjà vu for Venezuelans. The government response is anything but
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — For the second time in two months, the ground was shaking in South America. Once again, families flooded social media with pleas for help finding missing loved ones under flattened buildings. Once again, governments across political divides and continents pledged aid. But in many ways, the contrast between Colombia’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake on Monday…
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CNN reports USS Lincoln sailor went overboard even as Navy denies mental health crisis
A sailor serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln was rescued last month after going overboard into the water, according to a U.S. official. The official confirmed to CNN the sailor was quickly pulled from the water and medically evaluated, although it’s not clear whether that service member returned to duty or evacuated from the aircraft…
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Google’s new watch tracks insulin resistance to flag diabetes risk
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is bringing a new set of health features to its wearables, including one that tracks insulin resistance over time, marking a first for consumer tech companies that are working to eventually crack comprehensive blood-sugar monitoring. The new tool, announced Wednesday, does not continuously monitor or show glucose levels, which would mark a…
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Tubas declared a national security threat as musicians ‘disturbed’ by Trump maneuver
President Donald Trump wants to add certain musical instruments to its list of national security tariffs. According to a notice from the Bureau of Industry and Security, the Trump administration intends to add wood-brass instruments — tubas, trombones, trumpets, French horns and their parts — to the list of imports subject to Section 232 national…
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Hannah Einbinder Recalls Hearing Frat Guy Explaining ‘Hacks’ at an Airport: ‘I’m Shocked by the Fans All the Time’
Hannah Einbinder is well aware that much of the fanbase for “Hacks” are women and queer people — “and in some lucky cases, both” — but she was delighted to learn that the HBO show actually reached even further than that. On Wednesday night, she recalled being shocked when she overheard two frat guys discussing…
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Mummy DNA exposes gruesome history of a deadly disease brought by colonists that ravaged early Americans
It’s a viral theory made true. A DNA analysis of mummies in Chile has confirmed the longstanding theory that European colonists brought smallpox to the Americas, unleashing a plague that decimated native populations, per a study in the journal Science. “We interpreted this as the first direct molecular evidence of smallpox introduction into the Americas…
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Muse frontman Matt Bellamy files to divorce wife Elle Evans after 7 years, seeks sole custody of kids
Matt Bellamy and wife Elle Evans are divorcing after seven years of marriage. The Muse frontman filed to end their union on Wednesday over “irreconcilable differences,” Page Six can confirm. While the musician, 48, did not list a date of separation, Bellamy recently revealed they called it quits last summer. Matt Bellamy and Elle Evans…
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Rocked Trump nears ‘twilight’ of presidency as ‘catastrophic embarrassment’ looms: column
President Donald Trump is losing Karoline Leavitt, and one columnist surmised Thursday he may soon lose far more than his press secretary. In a pointed opinion piece for The I Paper, political editor James Ball argued that Leavitt’s surprise exit laid bare how dependent an aging Trump has become on the young staffers who shield…
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Can You Engineer Civic Pride? Dubai Thinks So
A woman practices yoga in front of the Dubai skyline, with the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, seen from Creek Harbour on April 3, 2026. —Fadel Senna-AFP via Getty Images In the summer of 1987, I saw two men in a subway station force a third to crouch down to wipe his spit off…
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Blanche warned ‘bizarrely fixated’ Trump posts spell peril: ‘Tell me that risk isn’t real’
Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is being handed a massive headache in his new job due to President Donald Trump’s latest pet project, according to a new analysis. Blanche, who is expected to have his hands full defending the current administration’s policies that are facing an avalanche of lawsuits, will also have to clean…