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NASA’s interim administrator Sean Duffy was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on Mars. “This is exciting news,” said Duffy about an arrow-shaped rock on Mars found by NASA’s Perseverance rover. The rock contained chemical signatures and structures that could have been formed by ancient microbial life. The findings were intriguing, but not conclusive. Further study of the rocks in an advanced lab on Earth might prove more definitive. Duffy was ready, he said, to discuss the scientific results along with…

Today, Mobb Deep dropped “Against The World,” the group’s first release since the death of Prodigy, who died at age 42 in 2017. The single is the first offering from their upcoming album Infinite, set to release on October 10 as the latest project in Mass Appeal Records’ Legend Has It series. Prodigy’s voice opens the song by powerfully stating, “stronger than ever, I’m back nigga,” priming listeners for a long-awaited dose of new music.  The track melds bluesy trumpet play with a wailing sample, embodying classic Mobb Deep sonics as Prodigy boasts of the Mobb’s “global dominance,” and rhymes,…

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb told reporters he didn’t sleep much last weekend after he had multiple drops in his team’s 24-20 season-opening loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 4.Lamb amassed three drops, and he also missed a diving catch immediately after the fourth quarter’s two-minute warning, leading to a turnover-on-downs. The Eagles ran the clock out from there for the win.This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.Make Bleacher Report one of your preferred sources on Google by selecting Bleacher Report on the “source preferences” page here.For more from Bleacher Report, check out our B/R…

Island-dwelling insects have not been spared the ravages of humanity that have pushed so many of their invertebrate kin into freefall around the world, new research on Fijian ant populations has found.Hundreds of thousands of insect species have been lost over the past 150 years and it is believed the world is now losing between 1% and 2.5% a year of its remaining insect biomass – a decline so steep that many entomologists say we are living through an “insect apocalypse”. Yet long-term data for individual insect populations is sparse and patchy.A new study in the journal Science sheds light…

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Washington, DC – Mere minutes after news broke out that American right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk was shot, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a social media post expressing his sympathy.As Kirk was declared dead on Wednesday, Netanyahu and other Israeli officials rushed to eulogise the 31-year-old activist and emphasise his support for Israel.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“A lion-hearted friend of Israel, he fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization,” the Israeli prime minister wrote on X. “I spoke to him only two weeks ago and invited him to Israel. Sadly, that visit will not take…

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said its UK factories will remain closed until next week after the carmaker was hit by a cyber attack at the end of last month. Production halted at the plants in Solihull, Halewood and Wolverhampton with workers sent home following the hack, which came to light on 1 September.The company, which usually builds 1,000 cars a day, said some data had been affected but it is not yet clear who is affected – whether that’s customers, suppliers, or JLR itself.Staff have been told not to come into work until Wednesday at the earliest, which means…

A French lawmaker has asked the state prosecutor for a criminal investigation into whether TikTok was responsible for “endangering the lives” of its young users.Arthur Delaporte, a Socialist MP, said he co-chaired a six-month French parliamentary inquiry into TikTok’s psychological effects on minors and heard testimony from families, social media executives and influencers.He told the broadcaster FranceInfo: “The conclusion is clear: TikTok has deliberately endangered the health and lives of its users. That is why I have decided to refer the matter to the Paris public prosecutor.“It seems to me that there are offences of a criminal nature, of active…

Kevin McKenna (left) and Kathleen Wang look over notes at the Charles S. Hirsch Center for Forensic Sciences Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York City. They are part of a team working to identify the remains of people who died on Sept. 11, 2001. José A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR hide caption toggle caption José A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR Last month, New York City officials announced they had identified the remains of another three victims who died in the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. It was the latest update to come…

Camp Walden has lost a beloved counselor. Director Nancy Meyers shared a remembrance of late star Polly Holliday, who memorably portrayed camp counselor Marva Kulp, Sr., in her 1998 remake of The Parent Trap, on social media in the wake of her passing on Tuesday at the age of 88. Alongside a still from the film featuring Holliday with star Lindsay Lohan as twins separated at birth Hallie Parker and Annie James, Meyers said she was “so sad” to hear of Holliday’s passing. “She was so kind and game and just wonderful in every moment in The Parent Trap,” Meyers…