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They Inhaled a Gas and Scaled Everest in Days. Is It the Future of Mountaineering?

They Inhaled a Gas and Scaled Everest in Days. Is It the Future of Mountaineering?

May 27, 2025

Climbing Mount Everest typically takes weeks, with most of that time spent at the foot of the mountain adjusting to the thin air. But four British men last week shrank that timeline dramatically, trav...

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Caught Between Russia and the U.S., Germany Aims to Be a Stronger Force in NATO

Caught Between Russia and the U.S., Germany Aims to Be a Stronger Force in NATO

May 27, 2025

As he takes office, Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, faces a delicate test: dealing with a Russia willing to flex its muscle on its eastern flank, and with an American president intent on mak...

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What to Know About the Liverpool FC Parade Car Crash

What to Know About the Liverpool FC Parade Car Crash

May 27, 2025

Four people were “very, very ill” and in hospital on Tuesday, a local official in Liverpool said, a day after a car drove into an enormous crowd of elated soccer fans in the city in northwest England....

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Police Quickly Gave Details on Liverpool Car Ramming, Aiming to Prevent Rumors

Police Quickly Gave Details on Liverpool Car Ramming, Aiming to Prevent Rumors

May 27, 2025

The English city of Liverpool awoke on Tuesday to a blizzard of questions about a vehicle that rammed a crowd of people in a sports parade the previous evening, injuring dozens, two seriously. But ami...

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Satellite Images Suggest a Russian Plan to Restart Seized Ukrainian Nuclear Plant

Satellite Images Suggest a Russian Plan to Restart Seized Ukrainian Nuclear Plant

May 27, 2025

Russia is building power lines in occupied southeastern Ukraine to link to its own grid a major nuclear plant it has captured, according to a new Greenpeace report. It is the clearest evidence yet of ...

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Could the French Pedophile Doctor Joël Le Scouarnec Have Been Stopped Earlier?

Could the French Pedophile Doctor Joël Le Scouarnec Have Been Stopped Earlier?

May 27, 2025

Dr. François Simon was one of the many people who knew that Joël Le Scouarnec had been convicted of downloading child sexual abuse imagery in 2005 and was continuing to operate on children as a gastri...

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Why a Venezuelan Mother and Her Children Fled the US

Why a Venezuelan Mother and Her Children Fled the US

May 27, 2025

For Yessica Rojas, the choice was clear. After less than two years in Missouri, she and her two children had to leave.The reason, she said, were stories about Venezuelan mothers like her that had gone...

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Israeli Forces Said They Killed a ‘Terrorist.’ He Was 14 Years Old.

Israeli Forces Said They Killed a ‘Terrorist.’ He Was 14 Years Old.

May 27, 2025

The clothes were strewn on a ridge dotted with olive and almond trees, perched above a highway in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. On rust-colored earth sprinkled with wildflowers were a torn black T-s...

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In Nashville, Volunteers Are Figuring Out How to Counter ICE

In Nashville, Volunteers Are Figuring Out How to Counter ICE

May 27, 2025

Word spread quickly through Nashville in early May: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had been spotted alongside state highway patrol officers along the southern roads where much of the city’...

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How North Korea Botched Its Warship Launch

How North Korea Botched Its Warship Launch

May 27, 2025

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, watched the country’s newest 5,000-ton destroyer capsize during its launch last week in an embarrassing military failure. Experts say a technique used to maneuver th...

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