The 'solar wind,' which the sun is constantly blasting over the planets, suddenly disappeared and created a void around Mars

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The sun can make or break Mars.

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory

Disney is about to lose its decades-long battle to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain

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"Steamboat Willie" Mickey Mouse (left) and modern-day Mickey (right).

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A woman took an at-home DNA test and learned her mom's fertility doctor is secretly her father: lawsuit

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A 23andme DNA test kit.
A fertility clinic founder has been accused in a new lawsuit of secretly impregnating a patient. Her daughter figured it out after taking a DNA test, the lawsuit alleges.

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Etsy is laying off 225 of its workers after 2 years of 'essentially flat' merchandise sales

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Etsy mobile app.
Etsy CEO Josh Silverman told employees in an email that the company's gross merchandising sales have "remained essentially flat since 2021."

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Bill Ackman says the doxxing trucks rolling around Harvard could teach its president, Claudine Gay, what it feels like to be a Jew on campus

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Bill Ackman (left) and Claudine Gay (right).
"Perhaps the doxxing trucks will give President Gay some perspective on what it is like to be Jewish and/or Israeli on the @Harvard campus," Ackman wrote on X on Wednesday.

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Man accused in toddler's accidental gun death abandoned and burned the car where it happened: prosecutor

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Prosecutors allege a man already charged in a child's shooting death tried to destroy evidence by burning the car in which the toddler was killed.

U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Michigan

The stabbing that paused Young Thug's trial is latest twist in a case filled with them

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The Atlanta racketeering and gang case against rapper Young Thug and others got off to a rocky start.

Amy Harris

Another country Russia invaded is worried a new naval base is going to drag it into the Ukraine war

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, attend the Navy Day parade in Saint Petersburg on July 30, 2023.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, attend the Navy Day parade in Saint Petersburg on July 30, 2023.

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OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla says people should worry more about China than a sentient AI killing us off

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Vinod Khosla, 68, was an early backer of OpenAI. The billionaire's VC firm invested $50 million into the ChatGPT maker in 2019.

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Taiwan says China tried to pay one of their soldiers $15 million to steal a US Chinook chopper for them

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A US Chinook helicopter.

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