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The US and Denmark strike a Greenland security deal, diesel nears $6 a gallon, and Fat Bear Week opens its chunkiest bracket yet.
Politics & World
The United States, Denmark and Greenland agreed Friday to give the American military lasting basing rights and a security role on the Arctic island, following months of U.S. annexation threats.
Politics & World
President Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House on Friday over their coverage…
Sources: Reuters, The Hill, USA Today
Sports & Culture
The New York Yankees put Aaron Judge on the 10-day injured list Friday with a right calf strain, and…
Sources: ESPN, CBS Sports, USA Today
The width of the moon’s newest crater — wider than two end-to-end football fields — carved when a building-sized object slammed into the lunar surface in 2024. Impacts that big happen only about once a century, making it a once-in-a-lifetime observation.
Source: Smithsonian
How 160 years of love, hate and river-town geography forged the Ole Miss-LSU rivalry.
ESPN · Wright Thompson
Why people protecting nature and land from organized crime are forming self-defense units amid threats of murder.
The Guardian · Jonathan Watts
What exploding squishy toys, burn injuries and thousands of poison control calls reveal about a children’s toy craze.
Business Insider · Dominick Reuter, Julia Pugachevsky, Jane Ridley
A herd of 40 life-size bison puppets, each maneuvered by three puppeteers, roams Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn to honor Indigenous history and resilience.
The NFL’s Week 3 Sunday slate kicks off across the league.
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toScientists Just Named a New Snake After Guns N’ Roses’ Slash
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