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• Silversea invited me on a complimentary five-night cruise on its new 728-guest ship, Silver Ray. 
• The ship's cheapest 2024 itinerary is a seven-day cruise for $4,550 per person.
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• Jill Biden has led efforts to counter concerns about Joe Biden's age after his shaky debate.
• The first lady is unlikely to join calls for her husband to step down, experts say. 
• A former advisor to Jill told the New York Times that she doesn't want to have her hand forced. 

Joe Biden's inner circle is

• Becca Kufrin starred on "The Bachelorette" in 2018
• She's been engaged to three men she met through the franchise.
• She says she's always felt loved by her husband Thomas Jacobs.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Becca Kufrin. It has been edited for length and

• I took my first-ever cruise in February and realized cruising isn't for me.
• I had horrible weather and rough seas that left me feeling sick after the cruise.
• I don't want to roll the dice again, so I have no desire to go on another cruise.

I took my first-ever cruise in February and spent a week sailing around the Eastern Caribbean

If you've been looking to improve your home's security but don't want to spend a fortune, Amazon Prime Day presents an excellent time to shop for some new gear. An early Prime Day deal discounts this Blink Outdoor bundle by 63 percent. For $120 — down from $320 — you can get a Blink Video Doorbell and three Outdoor 4 smart security cameras with Sync Module 2. Like most Prime Day deals, this one is

• Scientists have debated for years about what's going on with Earth's inner core.
• A new study offers compelling evidence that the inner core reversed direction and is slowing down. 
• The shift happened in 2010, but it's unclear what triggered it or when the core will change back.

One of the key questions

Amazon Prime Day is just around the corner, and in usual Prime Day fashion, the savings are already starting to trickle in. Lots of deals are ready to shop as we speak, especially when it comes to Apple's beloved MacBooks (including the new M3 models).

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By the time Voyager returns home from the Delta Quadrant at the end of its seven-season run, Kathryn Janeway has seen more in her tour of duty than most Starfleet captains see in their lifetimes (even if she and her crew got to skip out on that whole, y’know, cataclysmic interstellar war thing). So it makes sense that…

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Amazon Prime Day 2024 is nearly here, but there are already a bunch of solid early Prime Day deals available on tech products in the lead-up. Bose items are among the deals: you can grab this quality set of active noise cancelling (ANC) wireless earbuds for $100 off. The Bose QuietComfort II buds typically retail for $279, but it's available in two colorways for $179. That marks an all-time-low

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In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. That’s about 53,000 metric tons an hour, 1.3 million metric tons a day,…

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• A new report details how Biden had long been in a cocoon before his disastrous debate performance.
• Top aides reportedly have to be careful about what they tell Biden — for fear of setting him off.
• "It's very difficult, and people are scared shitless of him," said a top aide.

In the wake of

The UK General Election is set to take place this week, and there's an exciting digital partnership playing to election content: Roblox and the BBC.

The BBC is bringing Larry the Downing Street Cat — iconic Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office and pet-in-residence at the official home of the UK Prime Minister — to Roblox for this election.

Larry, along with digital avatars of BBC presenters like