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Mars Has a Cloud 1,100 Miles Long, and It Keeps Coming Back
Every Martian year, as southern spring approaches, a cloud forms over the volcano Arsia Mons and stretches westward for some 1,100 miles — a…
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Putin and Pezeshkian Take Center Stage as CIS Leaders Mark 35 Years in Avaza
Vladimir Putin arrived in the Caspian resort city of Avaza this week carrying two messages at once: that Russia still convenes its neighbors, and…
Politics
At the White House, Columbus Gets His Day Back
Christopher Columbus has had a complicated decade in American public life — statues toppled, holidays renamed, schoolbooks rewritten. This Columbus Day, the White House…
Business
Delta’s Quarter Meets the Fuel Bill
Delta Air Lines has spent years teaching Wall Street to think of it as the industry’s reliable compounder — the airline that makes money…
Technology
Eleven Companies, $2.4 Billion, One Mission: Washington Recruits Its AI Champions
The Genesis Mission was announced as a moonshot for the laboratory age: a federal drive to fuse artificial intelligence with America’s national research infrastructure.…
Sports
Burton’s Late Three Lifts Valkyries Over Aces, and a Semifinal Tilted
Golden State’s expansion dream refuses to behave like one. The Valkyries beat the Las Vegas Aces 83–81 on Wednesday night in Game 2 of…
Entertainment
On His Father’s Birthday, Sean Ono Lennon Opens the Vault
John Lennon would have turned 86 this week, and the Lennon estate marked the date the way estates do now: with a box set.…
Health
A New Option After Surgery: FDA Backs Tecentriq Combination for a High-Risk Colon Cancer
For patients whose stage III colon cancer carries a particular genetic signature — a deficiency in DNA mismatch repair, known as dMMR — the…
Science
A Dead Star May Be Growing a Second Generation of Planets
Astronomers have found evidence that a white dwarf — the burned-out core of a sun-like star — may be assembling something it has no…
