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Google Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Google, Inc. Facts The name Google is a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term referring to a 1 followed by 100 zeros (represented as 1 x 10100). Alphabet, Inc., Google’s parent company, employed 190,167 people as of September 30, 2025. Timeline 1995 – Founders

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President Donald Trump

Trump angers allies with claim NATO troops ‘stayed a little back’ from front lines in Afghanistan

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” baselessly claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” from the front lines in Afghanistan. “I’ve always said, ‘Will they be there, if we ever needed them?’

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Ghanem says his father

An Egyptian university student lost his visa after pro-Palestinian protests. He could be deported within days

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN London (CNN) — Usama Ghanem learned the stifling censorship that shrouded public spaces in Egypt early in life, and still recalls criticizing the “stupid” regime under former President Hosni Mubarak in elementary school. Immediately, his teacher hushed him. “Nobody was allowed to say anything,” Ghanem, now a 22-year-old student in

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Space Accidents Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The first space-related fatalities occur when a rocket explodes at the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, killing 165 people,

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Hank Aaron Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Baseball Hall of Fame player Hank Aaron. Personal Birth date: February 5, 1934 Death date: January 22, 2021 Birth place: Mobile, Alabama Birth name: Henry Louis Aaron Father: Herbert Aaron Mother: Estella (Pritchett) Aaron Marriages: Billye Williams (1973-January 22, 2021, his death);

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (L) pictured speaking with Finland's President Alexander Stubb.

Trump’s posturing over Greenland has changed the transatlantic alliance forever, European officials say

By Issy Ronald, Nick Paton Walsh, Clare Sebastian, Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s posturing over Greenland has irrevocably changed the transatlantic relationship, even after he backed away Wednesday from his threats of a US takeover of the Danish autonomous territory, European officials told CNN. One European diplomat, speaking anonymously, described the last

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