President Joe Biden signed a spending package Saturday that includes a provision that cuts off funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East through March 2025. Described by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as “the backbone of all humanitarian responses in Gaza,” UNRWA, the chief organization for distributing food and aid in Gaza, relies heavily on U.S. funding. The group says that being denied U.S. money will drastically reduce its...
Wyndham Clark went from elation to heartbreak in a matter of seconds on Sunday when he missed a putt on the 18th green that would’ve forced a playoff with Scottie Scheffler at The Players. Rather than continue competing for a chance at victory, Clark’s final round ended with a second-place consolation prize. He couldn’t believe […]
Amanda Nenigar, 26, was reported missing on February 28 after she became stranded out in the Arizona desert near Blythe, California. Her final 911 call was released this week, where she tried to describe her surroundings and nearby landmarks. Her family claim she provided near-exact coordinates to where her car was found on March 7 as they slammed the cops' response. Anyone with information on Nenigar's whereabouts is urged to call the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office at (928) 669-6141
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It's official: the United States is now a terror-sponsoring nation.
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We humans just can’t help ourselves. Now scientists in China have created the world’s fastest humanoid robot. Dubbed “Evolution V3.0” by its creators at Unitree, the 5-foot-11, less than 110 pound H1 humanoid robot is capable of reaching speeds of 11 miles per hour. By comparison, Atlas, the humanoid robot created by Boston Dynamics, only […]
Until the mid-20th century, measles was a leading killer of children. It's estimated that between 1 and 2 million Native Americans died of measles when Europeans first came to North America.
In 1960, an 18-year-old Italian pianist, the youngest contestant, won the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw. “That boy,” the revered pianist Arthur Rubinstein, honorary chairman of a 37-member jury, famously announced, “can play the piano better than any of us.” Live recordings of Pollini playing Chopin in the competition back Rubinstein up. Rubinstein’s quip has been used in seemingly every tribute to Maurizio Pollini since his death Saturday in...
Often imitated, never duplicated.