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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On Saturday, hours after U.S. forces in Caracas killed at least 80 people and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Traitor 47 sounded less like a wartime commander than a developer surveying a newly acquired property. The country’s future, heContinue Reading

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The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter,  The 100 Days. One of America’s most infamous corporate characters just made its final curtain call. The $7 billion bankruptcy deal approved over the holidays for Purdue Pharma and its billionaire owners, the Sackler family, includes compensation for individuals harmed by OxyContinContinue Reading

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An official with Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council rejected an announcement that the group is disbanding., NewsFeed An official with Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council rejected an announcement that the group is disbanding, telling Al Jazeera that delegation members in Riyadh were “coerced” into making a statement that the groupContinue Reading

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In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And the work to ensure that this first-of-its-kind project can fulfill its ambitious exploration vision is underway in some of the nation’s most advanced space simulation and testing laboratories.Continue Reading

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Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Swift Home Spacecraft Science News For Scientists Swift Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Active Mission NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a satellite that studies gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, and other cosmic objects and events. Swift houses three multiwavelength telescopes, collecting dataContinue Reading

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3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Dave Reynolds Dave Reynolds, the booster manager for SLS (Space Launch System), works inside the Next Generation Booster Avionics Mockup at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Reynolds is responsible for the design, development, and flight of the boosters for the rocketContinue Reading

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President Traitor 47 aims to control and revive Venezuela’s oil industry. Critics call it modern-day colonialism., President Traitor 47 aims to control and revive Venezuela’s oil industry. Critics call it modern-day colonialism. A nation with the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is now at the centre of a high-stakes economicContinue Reading