Washington — Fr. Joseph Coleman feared he would never again see his father, Stephen Hubbard, when they had a brief phone conversation last year while Hubbard was in a Russian prison. “He was expressing a very extreme tiredness with life, the life that he was experiencing at that time. I don’t want to say suicidal […]
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Photo credit: Ruochen Hou et al. / RoMeLa, UCLA / New AtlasOld Android phones sitting unused in drawers can now serve as the central brains for a compact walking robot that stands about nineteen inches tall and weighs under four pounds. Researchers at UCLA’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory built PhoneBot as an open-source platform that […]
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Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have identified a fresh constraint on the basic numbers that shape the universe. Physicist Kostya Trachenko examined how those numbers control the thickness of liquids. Cells depend on liquids for nearly every function. Molecules must reach reaction sites, waste must leave, and chemical exchanges must continue without interruption. […]
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FlyDubai captain tells India’s leader how he saved himself and 173 others while fighting for his own life
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The FlyDubai captain attacked by his co-pilot on a Wednesday flight to Israel says his faith gave him the courage to seize what he believed to be a last chance to save himself and the 173 other people on board the plane. Flight captain Smit Machchhar told India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an emotional […]
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Israel’s ambassador to U.S. says son is fighting for his life after car-ramming attack in West Bank
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The son of Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. was seriously injured in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank on Tuesday, according to his father and statements from the Israeli military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Ambassador Yechiel Leiter posted on social media about his son, Neria Leiter, who is serving as a reservist in the Israel […]
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Spectator stunned by low flyover at Cape Town rugby stadium: “Probably one of my top-5 moments in my life”
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An extremely low flyover above a rugby stadium in South Africa has left many people asking: How low is too low? Two passenger jets — one following the other — swept just above the packed DHL Stadium in Cape Town on Saturday, coming really close to more than 56,000 people below. For a spectator who […]
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Cartel boss Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada gets life in U.S. prison 2 years after he says he was kidnapped, flown to Texas
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Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court Monday to life in prison, seven years after his Sinaloa cartel co-founder Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was handed the same sentence. Zambada’s sentencing in Brooklyn federal court was the culmination of the U.S. government’s yearslong fight to bring the long-elusive cartel […]
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Journalist targeted by Iran reacts to U.K.’s crackdown on IRGC: “The happiest day of my life since I was stabbed”
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When British Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati first heard of the U.K.’s formal plans to ban support of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps early this week, it gave him a sense of relief he had not felt in years. It was “the happiest day of my life since I was stabbed,” he said. Zeraati’s primary concern […]
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