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While Larry Bird's Three-Point Contest trash talk is the stuff of legends, the forward recently clarified what actually occurred.

"I'm grateful to be doing something that is exactly what I want to be doing as an artist and as a person in my life right now," Carrie Preston tells 'Newsweek.'

Ground staff at major airports in Germany staged an organized industrial action, raising concerns about its impact on jet fuel demand and market dynamics. The strike exacerbates challenges faced by airlines grappling with the pandemic aftermath and highlights labor disputes prevalent in the country. The strikes disrupt various sectors, including air travel, railways, and public transport.

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Robert Silkworth, the District 2 representative on the Anne Arundel County Board of Education, is running unopposed in November.

According to Kansas City police officers, Lyndell Mays — one of the adult males charged with murder after last week’s shooting that killed one and injured 22 during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade — admitted he fired the first shots.

If you have spotted "ungraded beef" at your grocery store recently – it's not mystery meat. In fact, officials say it's completely safe to consume.

This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. The first time I heard the term “virtual power plants,” I was reporting on how extreme heat waves in 2022 had overwhelmed the Chinese grid and led the government to restrict electric-vehicle…

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Penguins grab a point but give away two they can’t afford. Pens Points has it all for your Wednesday morning.

NSA says Rob Joyce is retiring as cybersecurity director and will be replaced by David Luber, the current deputy director of cybersecurity.

New Wave Foods - a producer of plant-based alternatives to shrimp - has announced the closure of its operations, as the business enters into assignment - an alternative to bankruptcy.

For Josephine Zhu, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, her Asian-inspired pottery brand Zhuology Ceramics is a love letter to her culture. "Every Chinese kid knows the classic blue and white Qinghua patterns, or the traditional lidded tea mugs their grandmother used to sip from. Memories of these grace my childhood, yet I used to think...

When European explorers reached the Americas in the 1500s, they brought diseases that Indigenous peoples--to their peril--had no immunity to, including measles, smallpox and influenza. So it's no small irony that, for their part, Native Americans shared medical knowledge of great benefit to the Europeans, including a certain medicinal plant with a host of curative...

Even as it supported NFL partners and unveiled its new F1 ride at Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas, Visa was executing its marketing game plan for the 2026 World Cup. In early January, amid the National Football League playoffs, Visa announced an extension of its partnership with global soccer governing body FIFA through 2026....

“I haven’t upgraded the Mac (or PC) I use for work in a years. I was going to replace it this year, and I’m wondering if I could or should get an Apple Vision Pro instead. What do you think?”

Microsoft’s $20-per-month Copilot Pro subscription gives you access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant in Office. That means Copilot can help you write Word documents, work with Excel spreadsheets, create PowerPoint presentations, put together Outlook emails, lay out notes in OneNote, and answer questions about whatever file you have open.

Chinese battery-electric-vehicle maker BYD is entering South America with its least-expensive BEV, and continues to pursue a manufacturing site in Mexico as a staging ground for the U.S. market.

A lightly challenging puzzle.

At thirteen, I went to sleepaway camp, consumed by crushes, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and my father’s worsening battle with AIDS.

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Via FiercePharma, these tidbits from an FDA inspection (PDF) of Sichuan Deebio Pharmaceutical: 

The Form 483 relays an especially troubling event during the inspection when Sichuan Deebio’s quality control team leader provided “misleading information” about records on the results of a microbiology test.

If you have spotted "ungraded beef" at your grocery store recently – it's not a mystery meat. In fact, officials say it's completely safe to consume.

Both cheerleaders and critics have misunderstood an essential aspect of the age of revolutions.

Published in The Atlantic in 1944

Appearing on Meet the Press on Sunday, NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson offered a chilling thought: Donald Trump, she said, “is acting like a normal politician.”