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MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."

Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous

MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."

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Texas nights should belong to Texans, not Big Tech. Data centers bring permanent daylight, drain water, and drive up power bills. People deserve dark skies, clean water, and land that stays in local hands.

Dark rural nighttime scene with trees, a fence line, and a truck visible in silhouette against an unusually bright glowing sky on the horizon. The Daily Mail logo appears in the top left. Large white text reads: “Data center brings permanent DAYLIGHT to rural Texas…”

Also good signs: "The VP was not in MAL w/Trump as he oversaw the attack. The admin released a photo of him running a secondary meeting at the WH, flanked by a can of Diet Mountain Dew and a sullen-looking Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Humiliation of J. D. Vance

Trump’s war with Iran shows that, within the administration, the vice president’s opinions matter less and less.

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The word for this year has been unpredictability. This is what we are living through. But right now, it is important to focus back our efforts on stopping the war in Ukraine. Russia is increasing its attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, amid a particularly hard winter.

This keyboard is actually an entire computer. Just plug it into a monitor and you’re set. Pricing isn’t finalized yet for the HP Eliteboard G1A, but HP says the starting price should come in under $1,000.

Robert Stirm, an Air Force pilot whose return home to his family after more than five years of captivity in North Vietnam was the subject of a jubilant Pulitzer Prize-winning photo — an image that hid the painful truth about his marriage ending —has died at 92.

Robert L. Stirm, Returning P.O.W. in Pulitzer-Winning Photo, Dies at 92

The image immortalized a Vietnam veteran’s joyous homecoming to his beaming family but hid the painful truth about a marriage that was about to end.

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A Long Island woman returned her license plates stamped with “NCC 1701,” like the identifying tag of the USS Enterprise in the “Star Trek” series, to New York State in 2020. She has since received hundreds of tickets for others who used the same tag, even though she had stopped driving.

She Turned in Her ‘Star Trek’ License Plates, but the Tickets Kept Coming

Beda Koorey, 75, returned personalized plates inspired by the identifying tag on the U.S.S. Enterprise to New York State in 2020. She has since been inundated with tickets for others who used the same...

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