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Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side, according to scienceMay 10, 2025 12:20 am - NEW YORK (AP) — Eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side, according to experiments with over 200 eggs. What does this mean for the best way to crack an ...
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Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to plummet to Earth this weekend after 53 yearsMay 10, 2025 12:17 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A half-ton Soviet spacecraft that never made it to Venus 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend. Built to land on the sol...
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Facts Matter: Canada isn’t banning older vehicles from its roadwaysMay 09, 2025 10:42 pm - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that FEMA has run out of money because of spending on migrants, Donald Trump is pictured wading through floodwater and more.
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Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies
May 09, 2025 9:08 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — The Republican administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday. Judge Susan Illston i...
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‘Don’t get in my way,’ the new acting head of federal disaster agency warns in call with staff
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Supper with the pope: Wheaton restaurant hosted the future pontiffMay 09, 2025 7:28 pm - A group of theologians from Loyola University Chicago met with then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, last August at Ivy Restaurant in Wheaton.
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ICE moves detainees to Texas facility where judge declined to halt deportations
May 09, 2025 6:33 pm - As the Trump administration battles to use a wartime law to speed deportations of alleged gang members, it has moved dozens of detained Venezuelans to the one court distr...
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American, United rivalry boils over in lawsuit on O’Hare gatesMay 09, 2025 6:32 pm - Here is what’s behind American Airlines’ lawsuit against Chicago and how United Airlines is reacting.
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Trump revives, then discards, then revives again the idea of taxing the rich in big GOP bill
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Agreement would settle lawsuit, approve design for long vacant Liberty Theater in downtown LibertyvilleMay 09, 2025 6:17 pm - An impasse involving development of the long vacant Liberty Theater in downtown Libertyville could be solved with a proposed settlement agreement.