A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost | CNN

Scientists have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago — at a time when woolly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and giant elks still roamed the Earth.

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Everything Hegseth Touches Breaks

Pete is no Ike.

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U.S. Has Urged Elon Musk for Years to Change Starlink Service in Ukraine and Middle East, Sources Say

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Israel raids towns, detains dozens of Palestinians in occupied West Bank

Israeli military raid targets at least 15 towns in the northern West Bank, including Nablus and Jenin.

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Trump, Netanyahu threats betray 'desperation', aide to Iran's supreme leader says

<article data-history-node-id="449876" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-netanyahu-threats-betray-desperation-aide-irans-supreme-leader" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-netanyahu-threats-betray-desperation-aide-irans-supreme-leader" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Trump, Netanyahu threats betray 'desperation', aide to Iran's supreme leader says </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Mohammed Mokhber, an adviser to the Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, has said that "psychological warfare" and threats of war by US President&nbsp;Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "betray desperation than power".</p> <p>In a post on X, Mokhber said: "Iran is aware of the enemy’s vulnerabilities. Surprise moves on the battlefield, along with its leverage in the oil and energy sectors, can shift the balance of power.</p> <p>"In the region, the nation that remains is the one that has lived there for thousands of years, and the Zionist regime can merely think about its own 'non-existence.'”&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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'This is not normal': Feds demand California counties set aside ‘likely’ noncitizen ballots

The Justice Department sent letters to county elections offices statewide Friday demanding they segregate ballots from voters the Trump administration believes are not U.S. citizens.

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Trump says he ordered DoJ to file lawsuit to block Alaska Senate results certification

Trump justice department claims there could be ‘confusion’ about two Republicans on the ballot named Dan Sullivan

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We Need to Prepare Ourselves for One of the Most Intensely Monitored Elections in American History

The ratfcking has just begun.

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Ukraine war briefing: Russian diesel tankers headed for North America, says Moscow, as US tries to revive peace talks

Three tankers carrying Russian diesel are on their ⁠way to North America, Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said ⁠on Friday. In ​a statement quoted by Russian news agencies, Novak said the cargoes were ⁠part of a deal that could see Russian companies supply 500,000 metric tonnes to US and world markets in October. “The first ⁠three fuel tankers are already on their ​way to the eastern ‌coast of ‌the Atlantic Ocean, with significant support from the ‌RDIF (Russian Direct Investment Fund),” Novak said. Under a deal announced this month by US president Donald Trump, Russia agreed ‌to supply diesel to global markets in an effort to lower fuel ​prices in return for Trump temporarily lifting US sanctions on Russian fuel. Reuters reported that the Malta-flagged ⁠medium-sized tanker Agioi Fanendes, loaded with ultra-low sulphur diesel, is expected to arrive in ‌the US on 7 November. The White House has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, where a deepening humanitarian crisis has left thousands of civilians struggling to survive. In a statement on Friday, the White House said both sides had agreed to halt all military operations in the city from...

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Arms Race Intensifies in Korea as the North Is Emboldened by Russia Alliance (Gift Article)

A rare escalation this month exposed the increasingly lethal arsenals the two Koreas are building up across the world’s most heavily fortified border.

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The GOP’s Midterms-Money Advantage Has Its Limits

Cash can’t necessarily solve the challenges that Republican candidates face.

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2 ex-FBI officials charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden's laptop

Two former FBI intelligence officials who specialized in foreign election interference have been charged with making false statements about their roles in investigating the origins of Hunter Biden’s l...

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For weeks, deepfake celebrities have been telling Americans not to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections. U.S. intelligence says Russia is behind it. — Meduza

Russia has mounted an online campaign to discredit candidates for the U.S. Congress ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, Senator Mark Warner and Representative Jim Himes told Politico. Both are…

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Live updates: Trump administration sues to block possible Democratic win in Alaska Senate race

Trump backs Ramaswamy on ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother, Trump says he ‘heard something about’ DOJ probe into Corey Lewandowski, Judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition.

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AI's 'Black October': Critical PHP flaws set off global security scramble

Governments and businesses around the globe are scrambling to contain the fallout after the PHP vulnerabilities leaked online.

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When Rivers Run Low in the American West

Water is the one resource that the region will never stop fighting over.

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The Party That Must Not Be Named

Sherrod Brown doesn’t want you to know he’s a Democrat.

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The Man in the Middle of Trump’s Deeply Conflicted Ukraine Policy

CIA Director John Ratcliffe leads an agency that’s at war with Russia, even as Trump makes nice with Putin.

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The Legal System Is Taking Another Shot at Forcing Trump to Tell the Truth About January 6

Good luck.

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When You’ve Got 6,000 Seats to Fill, You’re Occasionally Going to Elect a Homophobic Sauerkraut Salesman

It is that time in the election cycle when we look around the country for the strange and wonderful about representative democracy.

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Popular Mechanics Magazine US - Apps on Google Play

Popular Mechanics informs your world unlike any other magazine out there.

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A Congressional District Where the Iran War Is Personal

How voters in Virginia’s veteran-rich Second Congressional District feel about the war could determine control of Congress.

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The Myth of Safe AI

Silicon Valley promises to make AI benevolent. That may be technically impossible.

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Trump’s Gamble to End the Iran War

The president is considering another escalation in the Middle East.

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‘If Anything Happens to This Guy … Everyone Is Screwed’

Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Trump presses Ramaswamy to keep running controversial ad featuring Acton’s estranged mother

The president called the ad “powerful” and “so good,” encouraging the Republican running for Ohio governor to continue airing the ad.

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State Department Unveils Plan to Only Promote Trump Supporters

The department has asked some officials up for promotion who they voted for in the last three presidential elections.

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