The Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Edition
Supreme Court Blocks Trump Ballot Order, US Weapons in Orbit, and a Bigfin Squid
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The minimum number of individuals archaeologists found inside an undisturbed mausoleum at Chan Chan, Peru's pre-Inca capital -- a tomb that sat sealed for roughly 600 years. Alongside the burials was a trove of rich funerary objects, and experts have already declared it the 'discovery of the decade.'
Source: Smithsonian
Today: The Kennedy Center could shut its doors as early as today, officials warn, unless a financial rescue materializes.
Sunday, Sept. 20: The NFL's Week 2 Sunday slate kicks off across the league.
- 1821Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica declare independence from Spain
- 1916Tanks are used in battle for the first time, at the Battle of the Somme
- 1935Nazi Germany enacts the Nuremberg Laws, stripping Jews of citizenship
- 1963A KKK bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church kills four Black girls
Iran and America: A tale of two lands and the pistachio between them
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DW
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Why solar power has become 'offensively cheap' -- and what that means for the future of global energy.
Ars Technica · Rachel Millard, Humza Jilani, Monica Mark, and Krishn Kaushik
Underground hydrogen could spur a green-energy revolution -- if companies can find it
Why underground deposits of natural hydrogen could spur a green-energy revolution -- if companies can actually find them.
Nature · James Mitchell Crow
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