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Rays Extend Commitment to Repairs: Deadline Runs Short for 2026 Opener** The plans for the Tampa Bay Rays repair a very, if not almost entirely, made-over Tropicana Field and the ballpark for modernizing for the 2026 season opener. Promises would be made to fans and infrastructure as well as to stadium aesthetics, but the team…
It was the last Sunday of the NFL’s regular-season schedule, but it was salving the excitement in one camp, bringing playoff conditions in another, while also surprising with a shocking reality. Here are all the synopses of the big stories of Week 18: Eagles Secured the NFC No. 1 Seed When Defeated by 49ers If…
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden paid his respects to the city of New Orleans as part of an effort to lift the morale and spirits of that city in light of an attack earlier in the week that left a path of destruction behind it. Biden proNew Orleans defines what it means to stand strong…
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are using a daring legal maneuver, asking to see the final report drafted by Special Counsel Jack Smith on Trump’s conduct related to probes into high-profile allegations he helped spur the efforts to try to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump’s lawyers argue that releasing the report would violate…
GIGABYTE has launched a new series of AI-powered PCs featuring the revolutionary GiMATE AI agent, designed to revolutionize user interaction and performance. GIGABYTE, a renowned computer hardware manufacturer, has launched its latest series of AI-powered PCs, which features the innovative GiMATE AI agent, at CES 2025. This marks a major leap in the integration of…
In a bid to further protect free speech ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Meta Platforms announced on Tuesday that it is ending its third-party fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram and switching to a user-driven “Community Notes” system. With an announcement by its parent, Meta Platforms—that houses Facebook and Instagram—the move would signal an…
The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against six major apartment landlords, accusing them of coordinating a scheme through an algorithm at RealPage that kept millions of American renters in line by secretly setting their rent hikes. The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against six major apartment landlords, alleging they…
The United States is seeing a clean energy investment level it has never seen before, with tax credits enacted under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) accounting for a large majority of that surge. Those credits have opened the doors to many new technologies eligible for support beyond traditional wind and solar and into areas…
The study of ancient human migration has taken a fascinating turn in recent years with the discovery of genetic links between Yemen and far-flung regions such as the Levant, East Africa, and Arabia. This research underlines the importance of Yemen as a crossroads of ancient human populations, with implications for understanding the movement of early…
For the fourth time, protozoan parasites of pigs were documented globally; this may herald a spread into new areas. This also reflects not just the increasing importance of such infection within agriculture but raises some concern about impacts on human health. The detection of zoonotic protozoan parasites in pigs has great implications for animal and…
