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Local Hero Honored

On August 23, 2026, an Arizona teenager named Royal Cothrun was honored with a "Citizen Hero Award" for his selfless act of kindness. While out in the heat, Royal helped an elderly woman who had gotten lost find her way back to safety. He…

NASA's Search for Life on Titan

NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft, a $3.3-billion nuclear-powered space-copter, is being assembled at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in LAUREL, Md.. The spacecraft was conceived by Ralph Lorenz in 2000 as a "fantasy" for…

Antisemitic Hate on Media Platform

Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy, aka Sneako, a known American conspiracy theorist who was deported from Australia in May, had been interviewed by an Australian Islamic-themed podcast called OnePath Network. OnePath Network received a social…

Teen Scientist Wins Research Grant

Iris Shen, a 17-year-old student from Woodlands, Texas, has won $150,000 for her innovative research on using marine clams as an animal model to test potential cancer drugs. In her project, Shen tested how clams respond to a potential…

Syrian Mufti Sentenced

Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, a former grand mufti of Syria who served from 2005 to 2021, has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Damascus for inciting violence and justifying murder while supporting the government of ex-President…

Hollywood Mega Merger

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing for Paramount to sell off certain cable channels and keep its film studio separate from Warner Bros. Discovery before approving their proposed $110 billion merger. This comes after…

B.C. Storm Causes Wildfires

A subtropical weather system brought high temperatures and widespread lightning to British Columbia over the weekend, causing more than 7,000 lightning strikes in 24 hours. This led to new wildfires sparking up across the province, with 57…

Rise of Multipolar Global Order

The US-led, rules-based world order is fading, according to Mark Leonard, cofounder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. This shift has been accelerated by President Trump's policies, including new tariffs and…

Hurricane Moves Towards Hawaii

Moke, a tropical storm that had been affecting Hawaii, weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and was moving at 14 mph. The storm is expected to bring heavy rainfall and gusty winds to parts of…

Drone Diverts UK Flights

On Sunday night, UK and Ireland flights to Spain were forced to divert due to an unidentified drone spotted near the runway at Malaga Airport, with incoming traffic held for over 30 minutes. The drone was seen by several flight crews as…

Health Data Sharing Opt-Out Issues

Paula Stannard, director of the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently signed a form acknowledging she had received a privacy notice about her health data when visiting her eye doctor, but in…

Secularism vs Religious Extremism

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