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- At least 15 newly-released Epstein files have disappeared from DOJ's website, records show The episode has deepened concerns that had already emerged from the Justice Department's much-anticipated document release....
- US Catholic bishops president says deportations instilling 'fear' in 'widespread manner': 'Concerns us all' Archbishop Paul Coakley criticized President Donald Trump's mass deportations for spreading fear and uncertainty in immigrant communities....
- US Catholic bishop head: Deportations instilling 'fear in a rather widespread manner' Paul Coakley, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said Sunday that the Trump administrations mass deportations are invoking fear in immigrant communities across the count...
- Mamdani Criticized for Staged Hanukkah Clip with Actor Mandy Patinkin: Were Not Fooled, Zohran <p>Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdanis Hanukkah video featuring radical leftist actor Mandy Patinkin and his family sparked backlash online, with critics slamming the appearance as a staged performance and ac...
- "60 Minutes" yanks segment, prompting concerns around editorial independence <p>CBS News pulled a segment on Trump administration deportations of Venezuelan immigrants to an <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/report-migrants-salvadoran-mega-prison-no-record" target="_bl...
- Makeovers are part of the prep for Democrats eyeing the White House in 2028 <p>Democrats eyeing 2028 presidential runs are losing weight, upgrading their wardrobes and changing their hairstyles a time-honored tradition for White House hopefuls that has taken on new urgency in...
- Iran missile drill alarms Israel as Netanyahu plans Trump meeting <p>Israeli officials warned the <a href="https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump" target="_blank">Trump</a> administration over the weekend that an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps missile...
- Bears make playoffs for first time since 2020 as Aaron Rodgers leads Steelers to 29-24 win over Lions <img alt="Bears wide receiver DJ Moore celebrates a first down during the first quarter against the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. " src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/...
- Do Gamers Hate AI? Indie Game Awards Disqualifies 'Clair Obscur' Over GenAI Usage "Perhaps no group of fans, industry workers, and consumers is more intense about AI use than gamers...." writes New York magazine's "Intelligencer" column: Just this month, the latest Postal game was ...
- Report: Chiefs concerned QB Gardner Minshew tore ACL The Kansas City Chiefs are concerned starting quarterback Gardner Minshew suffered a torn ACL during Sunday's 26-9 loss to the Tennessee Titans, ESPN...
- Game #35 Preview & Open Thread: Sabres at Devils <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Buffalo has a retooled front office now</h2> <p><strong>Buffalo Sabres</strong> (16-14-4) vs <strong>New Jersey Devils</strong> (20-14-1)</p> <p><strong>Puck Drop:</strong...
- Seattle Torrent GAMEDAY: Torrent face the league-leading Fleet! <h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Need to Knows</h2> <p>The Time: 2pm PST</p> <p>The Place: Climate Pledge Arena in Beautiful Seattle, WA</p> <p>Place to Watch: Youtube, FOX 13+, NESN+, Spirtsnet ONE</...
- This AI finds simple rules where humans see only chaos A new AI developed at Duke University can uncover simple, readable rules behind extremely complex systems. It studies how systems evolve over time and reduces thousands of variables into compact equat...
- Double-trace instability of BTZ black holes arXiv:2512.16982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We perform a comprehensive study of the linear stability of rotating BTZ black holes under massive scalar field perturbations with double-trace boundary...
- A Search for Binary Black Hole Mergers in LIGO O1-O3 Data with Convolutional Neural Networks arXiv:2512.17204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 by LIGO from the binary black hole merger GW150914, gravitational wave astronomy has developed ...
- Interplay of Lyapunov exponents, phase transitions and chaos bound in nonlinear electrodynamics black hole arXiv:2512.17242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we investigate Lyapunov exponents of chaos for both massless and charged particles around a non-linear electrodynamics black hole, and ex...
- Between two descriptions of dark matter around a black hole: photon sphere, shadow, and lensing arXiv:2512.17304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We examine observational discrepancies of two widely used models describing anisotropic (dark) matter distributions around a black hole, focusing on the...
- Ghost-free 2-form fields in cosmology: implications for gravitational parity violation arXiv:2512.17348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We explore the possibility of parity-violating, nonminimally coupled 2-form field theories that retain the same dynamical degrees of freedom as a massiv...
- Origin of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations and Accretion Process in X-Ray Binaries around Quantum Lee-Wick Black Hole arXiv:2512.17358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, we investigate the accretion dynamics and test particle motion around a non-rotating, spherically symmetric Lee-Wick black hole (BH) to r...
- Advantages and disadvantages of maximally entangled states in dilaton black hole background arXiv:2512.17535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate quantum entanglement and coherence for four classes of Bell-like fermionic states in the vicinity of the event horizon of a Garfinkle-Hor...