
It seems almost too comical to be true, but this is the world we live in. One year after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon that ignited a national frenzy, the military has spotted another balloon in American skies.

When The Bad Batch returned for its third and final season this week, it made clear its endgame will attempt to tie up something Star Wars has been obsessed with for nearly five years now: how, exactly, did Palpatine return? We’ve long had the answer, but the saga, and now Bad Batch itself, hopes to explain with two…
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against tax prep company H&R Block for allegedly wasting consumers’ time and money. The company deceptively marketed its services and made them difficult to downgrade, the FTC claims in an administrative complaint issued Friday.
“H&R Block designed its online products to present an

Astronomers found a new moon orbiting Uranus, as well as two around Neptune. The tiny satellites appeared as faint specks in the outer reaches of the solar system following hours of ground-based observations.

If Ed Brubaker is getting tired by now, he isn’t showing it. Twenty-three years after he first teamed up with artist Sean Phillips (on an out-of-continuity Batman noir story called Gotham Noir), the comic writer has been around the block more than few times.
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- Economists place the odds of a recession this year at around 40% — the lowest since January 2022, a new Bloomberg survey found.
- Respondents lifted their forecasts for GDP, consumer spending, private investment, and government expenditures compared to a survey last month.
- They expect unemployment to peak at 4.1% later this

New research in mice may pinpoint how chronic stress can fuel the spread of cancer. The study found evidence that stress can induce changes to certain immune cells that inadvertently make it easier for cancer cells to metastasize and invade other parts of the body. The findings emphasize the need to manage stress…
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- The Houthis have spent the past few months lobbing missiles and drones at ships off Yemen's coast.
- These threats have not hit US Navy ships in the region, but they have struck merchant vessels.
- War experts say these attacks are giving Iran and the rebels, Tehran's proxies, valuable data.
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- IVF treatments have been halted in Alabama after a ruling declared frozen embryos to be human life.
- Most House Republicans back a bill making a similar argument — with no IVF exception.
- Some Republicans are trying to distance themselves from the ruling, declaring support

Google apologized on Friday saying its team “got it wrong” with a new image generation feature for its Gemini AI chatbot after various images it created that were devoid of white people went viral. A company exec firmly denied that it purposefully wanted Gemini to refuse to create images of any particular group of…
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- Current Time's correspondents shared experiences covering Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- Journalists described emotional challenges, including reporting on civilian and soldier deaths.
- Reporters highlighted the crucial roles