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Local activists protested a St. Paul ICE field officer’s church. Now they’re under federal investigation. Published January 20, 2026 1:44PM (EST) MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – JANUARY 18: A protester with an anti-ICE sign, stands outside of the Henry Bishop Whipple Federal building on January 18, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protesters continuedContinue Reading

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System76 has updated the COSMIC Desktop with window shadows and consistent corner sizing across all applications, a change available on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS right now and coming to users on other Linux distributions soon. Both features apply the effects consistently, meaning that apps in different toolkits (Qt, GTK, Iced, etc)Continue Reading

James Webb Space Telescope discovers young galaxies age rapidly: ‘It’s like seeing 2-year-old children act like teenagers’

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The 18 galaxies from the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST survey (Image credit:  Andreas Faisst (Caltech) and the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey team) Astronomers have obtained their most detailed look yet at young galaxies in the early universe using the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The conclusion? These cosmic adolescents grew up incredibly fast.Continue Reading

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Uganda’s General Kainerugaba threatens opposition leader Bobi Wine and labels him an outlaw since the election results., General Muhoozi Kainerugaba has accused candidate Bobi Wine, who has been in hiding since the weekend, of being a ‘terrorist’. The son of Uganda’s newly re-elected President Yoweri Museveni has threatened to killContinue Reading

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Japanese automaker Honda and battery materials manufacturer Princeton NuEnergy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the development of lithium-ion battery recycling technologies. Since 2022, the companies have conducted joint technical validation of Princeton NuEnergy’s plasma-based direct cathode-to-cathode recycling and upcycling technologies for lithium-ion battery manufacturing scrapContinue Reading

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Less than three weeks after Zohran Mamdani’s rousing inauguration speech, his supporters are expressing concern over his administration’s first major compromise: the reappointment of Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, an architect of the New York Police Department’s repressive surveillance-policing apparatus who has shown a willingness to work with Immigration and CustomsContinue Reading