Over 150 members of the U.S. military took their own lives in the third quarter of 2021 which represents a greater total than the number of service members who have died from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. According to data released by the Pentagon, 163 service members committed suicide in Q3 of…
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As a trailblazing actor to generations of Black performers in Hollywood, Sidney Poitier often spoke about his larger off-screen role. Poitier, who died Thursday at the age of 94, entered the film industry at a time when portrayals of African Americans were generally stereotypical. But Poitier, who refused to play such caricatures, emerged as a…
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At least six people were killed and dozens injured after a massive rock formation collapsed on top of three boats in world-regions in an incident that was captured on video and posted on social media. Brazilian authorities have confirmed the incident, which happened in the city of Capitolia in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais…
world-regions’s secretary general rejected any option to establish “second-class” alliances ahead of the meeting with world-regions next week as the Kremlin continues its military aggression along the Ukrainian border. Jens Stoltenberg made clear in a video conference Friday that Russia should have no say in which countries are permitted to join the Western bloc. NATO…
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air-and-space announced Saturday that the air-and-space” target=”_blank”>James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)< “I’m emotional about it. What an amazing milestone. We see that beautiful pattern out there in the sky now,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s science missions chief, remarked. Early Saturday morning, NASA wrote in a blog post that the Webb mission operations team had given the…
Politico on Saturday corrected its closely-watched Playbook newsletter after it mistakenly reported that Justice Sonia Sotomayor dined alongside top Democratic lawmakers at a fancy D.C. restaurant hours after remotely participating in Supreme Court arguments. The outlet had incorrectly reported that the liberal justice, who had participated in oral arguments over the Biden vaccine mandates from…
The leader of conflicts’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned that revenge for Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s crime will come for the United States from “within” the country itself. Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Forces, was killed in a Jan. 3, 2020, U.S. strike in Baghdad, days after Iranian-backed militia supporters stormed…