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Month: October 2024

A chilling nonfiction thriller about nuclear war is up for the UK’s Baillie Gifford book prize

LONDON (AP) — A chilling, thriller-like account of how a nuclear war might unfold and books by two award-winning novelists are among finalists for Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize. Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War: A Scenario” is one of six books shortlisted Thursday for the 50,000 pound, or $66,000, Baillie Gifford Prize. Booker Prize-winning Australian novelist

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Scooter Braun dice que es hora de “dejar de hablar” de la venta de las grabaciones maestras de Taylor Swift

Belén Liotti (CNN) — A Scooter Braun le gustaría cambiar de tema. Al ejecutivo musical le gustaría en particular que la gente dejara de hablar sobre su muy pública y controvertida venta de las grabaciones maestras de la megaestrella Taylor Swift, y dijo que “cinco años después, creo que es hora de dejar atrás” el tema.

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Knoxville neighborhood urged to evacuate after dynamite found at recycler; foul play not suspected

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities have urged evacuations in a neighborhood of a Tennessee city after employees at a recycling business discovered a container that apparently contains dynamite, though foul play was not suspected. The Knoxville Police Department said in a news release that it urged residents within 3,000 feet of CMC Recycling to relocate

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Utah candidates for Mitt Romney’s open US Senate seat debate approaches to climate change

Associated Press OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The Republican and Democratic candidates vying for Mitt Romney’s open U.S. Senate seat are aiming to convince Utah voters that they have the better blueprint to tackle climate change and protect the state’s vast natural resources. Republican U.S. Rep. John Curtis squared off on the debate stage Thursday night

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En días de huracanes, resurge la teoría de conspiración de los chemtrails o estelas químicas

Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Mitos antiguos y desacreditados sobre los llamados chemtrails, o estelas químicas, se han convertido en la parte central de una teoría de conspiración que afirma falsamente que el Gobierno de EE.UU. utilizó tecnología inexistente de manipulación climática para crear la devastación causada por los huracanes Helene y Milton. La teoría de

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Un hombre desarrolla un tumor de 30 centímetros en el cuero cabelludo tras décadas de practicar breakdance

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Investigadores en Dinamarca publicaron un informe de caso que revela una consecuencia inesperada de uno de los movimientos más emblemáticos del breakdance: el headspin. El breakdance, o breaking como lo llaman sus atletas, hizo su debut como deporte oficial en los Juegos Olímpicos de París de 2024. Los breakdancers

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Continuing to track a gradual cool down

Conditions today are overall quite similar to yesterday, however, that won’t stay the case. Tomorrow, we will resume our cooling trend as high temperatures fall slightly. Temperatures will continue to fall in the days through the weekend. Taking a look at the drought monitor, we see increasingly dry conditions across the state and more drought

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New Zealand ship didn’t sink because its captain was a woman, the ‘appalled’ defense minister says

Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Defense Minister Judith Collins has decried what she called misogynistic online comments about the woman commander of a navy ship which ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa on Sunday. Collins told reporters in Auckland on Thursday that women in New Zealand’s

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