Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump's sister and a former federal judge, dies at 86

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Maryanne Trump Barry with her brother, Donald Trump, in 2008.

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Drug-abusing Russian soldiers get sent to fight with Storm Z assault forces as punishment, intel says, putting them on the front lines with convicts

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Russian servicemen take part in military exercises at the Uspenovskyi training ground outside the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, on September 4, 2022.

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Jack Smith is fed up with Trump's repeated attempts to delay his Jan. 6 trial in DC

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Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump.

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4 times NASA astronauts lost things in space

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Jasmin Moghbeli (top) and Loral O'Hara (bottom) performing maintenance outside the international Space Station.

NASA TV

Elon Musk told SpaceX workers not to wear safety clothes because he doesn't like bright colors: report

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X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk leaves a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023
Elon Musk.

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Far-right hosts are blaming the GOP's big election losses on Taylor Swift

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Jack Posobiec; Taylor Swift; Charlie Kirk
Jack Posobiec; Taylor Swift; Charlie Kirk

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NASA's James Webb and X-ray telescopes combine powers to discover the most distant black hole ever in a rare state of infancy

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X-ray image of the msot distant black hole ever discovered.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand

The history of the San José galleon, the 300-year-old sunken ship behind a $10 billion legal battle, known as the 'Holy Grail of Shipwrecks'

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The San Jose galleon was believed to have been carrying billions worth of treasure when it was sunk in 1708.

ARMADA DE COLOMBIA

Protesting the Ukraine war is banned in Russia, so young people are sabotaging trains and railroad tracks instead: UK intel

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Moscow's mayor Sergey Sobyanin (R) sit in a train as they attend a ceremony to launch the Line D3 of the Moscow Central Diametres (MCD) suburban railway network in Moscow on August 17, 2023.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on a train before the launch the Line D3 of the Moscow Central Diametres suburban railway network on August 17, 2023.

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A discovery of more than 30,000 ancient Roman coins may point the way to a hidden shipwreck

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Divers unearth the coins from the seabed off the coast of Sardinia, Italy.

Italian Ministry of Culture

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