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Recently, Treasury bills — or T-bills, as they're also referred to — are having a bit of a revival. This is largely due to their higher-than-usual yields following a series of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, as well as a general sense of unease among investors as inflation persists and the threat of a recession looms.

Alec Baldwin has still not been absolved of criminal culpability in the fatal Rust shooting, prosecutors say, even as they plan to drop all charges against him. 

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed a bill that will end the unanimous jury requirement for recommending the death sentence, "reducing the number of jurors [needed] to recommend a death sentence to the lowest threshold of any state with capital punishment," CNN says.

This week's question: A 50-year-old Spanish adventurer spent 500 days alone in a cave and emerged claiming she loved the experience and "didn't want to come out." Come up with a name for a travel package for fellow solitude-seeking spelunkers.

This week's question: A group of volunteers in northern Maine created the world's largest "ice carousel" by sawing a 1,776-foot circle of ice in a frozen lake and making it spin. Come up with the title of a good piece of music for this subzero merry-go-round.

A Dallas-area man who entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, fired at Hunt County sheriff's deputies outside his home a few days before he had agreed to surrender to the FBI to face misdemeanor charges, according to court papers unsealed Thursday. Nathan Donald Pelham, 40, was taken into custody on Monday and charged with four misdemeanors for illegally entering the Capitol, then charged Tuesday with possessing a firearm as a felon, which is itself a felony offense. 

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India's population, more than 1.4 billion, has surpassed that of mainland China, new United Nations data released this week showed. By summer, it will have about 2.9 million more people than the mainland and Hong Kong combined, according to the U.N. Population Fund's 2023 "State of World Population Report." China's aging population — a "hangover" from its decades-long one-child policy, according to The New York Times — fell last year for the first time in six decades, and it is expected to keep... Читать дальше...

The debate over gun control seems to be never-ending, and a pair of recent tragedies have only further stirred the pot: A 16-year-old honor student in Kansas City — Ralph Yarl — was shot while ringing a doorbell at the wrong house, and a New York woman — Kaylin Gillis — died after a homeowner shot her allegedly for turning around in his driveway. 

Tesla founder Elon Musk has found himself in the middle of a fair share of controversies. The scandals have only increased since the tech mogul and billionaire magnate purchased Twitter in 2022. Here are some of the most controversial things Musk has said and done: 

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reportedly been sloppy with his mandatory financial disclosure paperwork for the past two decades — and that's probably the most generous way to summarize a series of errors and questionable omissions that have put the longest-serving member of the current court in the headlines in recent weeks. 

The Dominion lawsuit was just the beginning for Fox News. Yes, the conservative cable network settled Dominion's defamation claims for a whopping $787.5 billion, but Fox isn't done in the courtroom. Another voting technology company, Smartmatic, is also suing Fox for airing untrue claims about the firm's role in the 2020 election that Donald Trump falsely said had been stolen from him. 

SpaceX's 394-foot-tall Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, lifted off Thursday morning from the company's Starbase launch site in south Texas, propelled skyward by the 33 Raptor rockets on its massive Super Heavy first-stage booster. The uncrewed rocket, making its first test flight, rose 24 miles into the air before beginning to tumble, then, about four minutes after liftoff, it exploded. Back at SpaceX headquarters in California, employees cheered. One sprayed a bottle of champagne on colleagues. Читать дальше...

The Texas Senate approved a bill Thursday that would require public schools in the state to prominently display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, starting next school year, The Texas Tribune reports. The bill's sponsor, state Sen. Phil King (R), argued earlier this month that the Ten Commandments are part of American heritage, and his legislation "will remind students all across Texas of the importance of the fundamental foundation of America." 

Conservative talk show host Larry Elder jumped in the 2024 Republican presidential race Thursday night, making his announcement on Tucker Carlson's Fox News program.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has returned to the Senate following treatment for clinical depression, and told NPR he's hoping that by talking about his mental health, it will help others who might be hesitant to seek help.