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Facebook's ban on gun sales gives sellers ten strikes before booting them. But someone reports your harmless satirical cartoon, and you're off the platform.
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NASA joins the hunt for UFOs. In an interview with The Washington Post last year, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he had seen the classified UAP report when he was serving in the Senate. "The hair stood up on the back of my neck,"" he said.
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'Shrinkflation' accelerates globally as manufacturers quietly shrink package sizes. A small box of Kleenex now has 60 tissues; a few months ago, it had 65.
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Did the assault weapons ban of 1994 bring down mass shootings? The risk of a person in the U.S. dying in a mass shooting was 70% lower during the period in which the assault weapons ban was active. The proportion of overall gun homicides resulting from mass shootings was also down.
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New York City is a lot safer than small-town America. Rising homicide rates don't tell the whole story. When you dig deeper into data on deaths, you'll find the more urban your surroundings, the less danger you face.
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NASA's James Webb telescope was hit by a micrometeroid. The event was significant enough for NASA to pick up a "marginally detectable effect in the data," but not enough to affect the telescope's performance.
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Oops. Microsoft has accidentally released Windows 11 for unsupported PCs. If you managed to install Windows 11 on an unsupported PC and were expecting only Release Preview updates for Windows 10, you should be able to rollback the unexpected upgrade in the settings section of Windows 11.
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Google Maps now helps you find fresh air. Just as wildfire season begins.
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Michigan GOP candidate Kelley charged for Capitol riot role. Ryan Kelley, one of five Republican candidates for Michigan governor and an ardent defender of former President Donald Trump, was charged with misdemeanors Thursday for his role in the 2021 postelection riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration upgrades Tesla Autopilot safety probe, step before possible recall. The auto safety agency in August opened a preliminary evaluation to assess the performance of the system in 765,000 vehicles after a series of crashes in which Tesla vehicles struck stopped emergency vehicles.
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Vladimir Putin mysteriously postpones marathon TV phone-in for first time in 18 years. Vladimir Putin has postponed his annual TV Q&A session amid rumours over his health and in the wake of his invasion of Ukraine that is widely perceived to have been a military failure.
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Kremlin Receives Almost 42,000 Complaints on Missing Ukraine Soldiers. The Russian government has not released any official figures on its Ukraine death toll since March 25, when it said that 1,351 men had died during the conflict.
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An experimental cancer drug had a 100% success rate. A tiny group of people with rectal cancer just experienced something of a scientific miracle: their cancer simply vanished after an experimental treatment.
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Miscellany:
Birthdays:
- 1672 - Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)
- 1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964) (Video)
- 1910 - Robert Cummings, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1990) (Video)
- 1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009) (Video)
- 1916 - Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, eighth United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2009)
- 1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Anglo-American pilot and poet (d. 1941); author of the poem "High Flight."
- 1930 - Marvin Kalb, American educator and newscaster (CBS/NBC, Meet the Press)
- 1931 - Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1934 - Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984) (Video)
- 1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
- 1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright
- 1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
- 1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
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On this date in:
- 68 - Roman emperor Nero committed suicide, after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
- 1856 - Five hundred Mormons left Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
- 1934 - first appearance of Donald Duck in the cartoon, "The Wise Little Hen".
- 1954 - Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashed out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" (Video)
- 1958 - "The Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hit #1 in the U.S. (Video)
- 1959 - The USS George Washington was launched, the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. (Video)
- 1973 - Secretariat (March 30, 1970 - October 4, 1989) won the U.S. Triple Crown. He still holds the fastest speed records in all three races.
- 1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor suffered burns from freebasing cocaine. (NSFW Video)
- 1989 - "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" premiered in USA. This was the one directed by Shatner. The less said the better.
Today is:
Donald Duck Day, National Earl Day, National Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day, World APS Day, and Writers' Rights Day.
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Comments and observations:
Ultra-conservative theocratic men running everything is called Sharia
Law over there and Scalia Law over here.
-John Fugelsang
I hear people say that Republicans are afraid of Donald Trump - no,
they're not. They are him, they are sticking with the guy who
gives them permission to be their worst selves.
-Mary Trump
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Friends and patients of the late Lawrence J. Nelson, MD... A memorial will be held Sunday, June 12 at noon at the George Irvin Green Funeral Home, 3511 Main Street, Munhall.
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