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This story was originally published by The 19th. Dolly Parton, who used her stardom to not only embrace all listeners but also nurture marginalized communities through literacy and financial development, died peacefully in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, according to her family. She was 80.  One of the bestselling musical artistsContinue Reading

CEO Weekends: SUN Mobility’s Ajay Goel on Building Africa’s Universal Battery-Swapping Network

India’s SUN Mobility is entering Africa with a proposition that goes beyond putting more electric vehicles on the road, by building an open-architecture battery-swapping ecosystem serving multiple electric vehicle manufacturers and electric vehicle brands. Sun Mobility’s open-architecture battery-swapping ecosystem, a first in Africa, with Kenya serving as the launch market for a broader continental expansionContinue Reading

Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly attacked the former labor secretary under President Clinton, Robert Reich. Reich wrote in a post online that “The Traitor Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week the K-shaped economy — the widening economic gap between the rich and the poor — is ‘dead.’ Hogwash…Continue Reading

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Raid on UNRWA centre exposes Israel’s strategic push to erase refugee rights, seal West Bank annexation, analysts say., Israeli forces have raided the Qalandiya Training Centre, operated by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem in what officials and analysts describe as a pivotal stepContinue Reading

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5 Min Read NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests Views from different angles of a plume-surface interaction test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Credits: NASA EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase ofContinue Reading

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Physics of the Cosmos … Physics of the Cosmos Community FLAG SAG Meeting, 28… About Community Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Science Groups Meetings Cosmic Pathfinders Science Gaps Early Career Workshops Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources   FLAG SAG Meeting Future Large Gamma-Ray Mission Concepts Science Analysis Group FLAGContinue Reading

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Jeret Howard, logistics management specialist at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph on July 27, 2026. Howard is now a NASA civil servant at Stennis as part of the administrator’s directive to strengthen technical core competencies within the civil service workforce. NASA/Danny NowlinContinue Reading