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Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander is well on its way to the moon after launching without a hitch on Thursday, but it managed to snap a few incredible images of Earth while it was still close to home. The company shared the first batch of images from the IM-1 mission on X today after confirming in an earlier post that the spacecraft is “in excellent health.” Along with a view of Earth and some partial selfies of the Nova-C lander, nicknamed Odysseus, you can even see the SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage falling away in the distance after separation.Intuitive Machines successfully…

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It’s looking like we might have a hostage situation on our hands. While we’ve seen sneak peeks into the massive ship disaster that will open up the much-anticipated 9-1-1 Season 7, we’ve now been gifted with a new trailer detailing this emergency’s magnitude. And Bobby and Athena are right in the middle of it. From 9-1-1 calls on the sea to a cruise ship half underwater, we’ve been thoroughly teased with a colossal emergency for quite some time now. But there were still many variables we were unsure of. Not so much anymore. …

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Former U.S. President and current GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the press at Mar-a-Lago on February 16, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMUNICH, Germany — NATO members on Saturday weighed the U.S.’ possible withdrawal from the military alliance if Donald Trump returns to the White House, with Hillary Clinton saying he would waste no time in quitting if re-elected.Clinton urged delegates at the Munich Security Conference to take her one-time presidential rival’s tough talk “literally and seriously” as anxiety mounts over the future of the U.S.-led pact.”He will pull us out…

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Copies of the Evening Standard outside the Bank of England in the City of London, after figures showed Britain’s economy slipped into a recession at the end of 2023. Yui Mok | Pa Images | Getty ImagesLONDON — The U.K. economy slipped into a technical recession in the final quarter of last year, initial figures showed Thursday.The Office for National Statistics said U.K. gross domestic product shrank by 0.3% in the final three months of the year, notching the second consecutive quarterly decline.Though there is no official definition of a recession, two straight quarters of negative growth is widely considered a…

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Venita Cooper, founder of Silhouette Sneakers & Art in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma.Parnia Mazhar| NBC News.TULSA — Nestled among rows of colorful shoes lining the walls of Silhouette Sneakers & Art, a framed black-and-white photo reminds owner Venita Cooper of the giants whose shoulders she stands on.Overlaid on that picture is the company name, Grier Shoe Shop, and its address — which is part of an area known as Black Wall Street. It was the business occupying Cooper’s building before it was destroyed during the Tulsa Race Massacre more than a century ago.In the decades between Grier and…

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A JetBlue Airways plane prepares to take off from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Jan. 31, 2024.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesCarl Icahn won his push for seats on JetBlue Airways’ board of directors, according to a statement from the airline Friday, days after disclosing a nearly 10% stake in the New York-based airline and that he was in talks for board representation there.The two new directors are Jesse Lynn, general counsel of Icahn Enterprises, and Steven Miller, a portfolio manager of Icahn Capital.Shares of JetBlue were up about 4% in after-hours trading following the announcement.The JetBlue…

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President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaks during the 2024 Munich Security Conference on February 17, 2024 in Munich, Germany.Johannes Simon | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMUNICH, Germany — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was willing to take U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump, a long-time skeptic of Washington’s support for Kyiv, to the war-battered front lines of Ukraine.Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy on Saturday said that he had already welcomed the Republican frontrunner to see first hand the impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but that the decision to come rests with Trump.”I invited him [Trump]…

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I went to a high school with about 1700 students and only 30 of them were Black. My Mama lived in the country—she always had red clay under her nails. She talked with her siblings more than her schoolmates. My Grandma was tugged off the school bus at 14 to help with chores and got her GED when she was 60 years old. As for my grandma on my dad’s side, she grew up in the city surrounded by Black folks; her mother’s experience was the same. Nevertheless, the stereotype, the monolithic western way of looking at the Black women…

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Harvey Specter. For those in the know, it’s a name that conjures up a knowing nod of agreement among men and women alike: goddamn, that guy looks good in a suit. If you’ve seen any of the high-stakes legal drama, Suits, (the clue is in the title; and yes, it’s the one that starred the Royal Family’s newest member), you’ll be familiar with the lead character’s oft-referenced, efficacious persona and swaggering good looks. Harvey Specter is the James Bond of the small-screen courtroom. He’s Don Draper for the Netflix era, and his witty one-liners are Instagram catnip for Monday morning motivational memes. “Sorry I…

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Dakota Johnson’s style has become iconic for a number of reasons. With a distinctly “undone” quality brought about by her signature tousled hair and a penchant for relaxed cuts, the actor strives for a timeless aesthetic whilst occasionally indulging in some new-season trends. Favouring cult designer brands such as The Row, Bottega Veneta and Alaïa, Johnson’s wardrobe rotation is brimming with some of the chicest buys on the market, and is enough to make any fashion editor jealous.(Image credit: Getty Images)Having spotted her out and about at press events over the past few weeks, I’m newly inspired to get her…

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[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Blue Bloods Season 14 premiere.] Blue Bloods‘ final season kicked off on Friday, February 16 on CBS, marking the beginning of the end of the crime procedural. Much of the plot of the Blue Bloods Season 14 premiere was the typical fare found in the cop show — Reagan family squabbles, differences in how and when to carry out justice, and more. But two plot lines will stick as some of the main issues facing the cop family throughout its final episodes. Jamie (Will Estes) is on a dangerous undercover mission in a…

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At the 2024 Grammy Awards, Paramore formally won their first two trophies: Best Rock Album (for This Is Why) and Best Alternative Music Performance (for “This Is Why”). Another Tennessee-based artist also won her first Grammy: Eight-time nominee Allison Russell earned Best American Roots Performance for “Eve Was Black.”In celebration, Nashville Democrat Justin Jones proposed house resolutions to honor the achievements. The resolution for Paramore (a band of white musicians from Tennessee) passed the state’s House of Representatives unanimously. The resolution for Russell (a Canadian-born Black artist who made her name in Nashville) was referred back to committee, a procedural…

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John Squire has explained why The Stone Roses never made a new album during their 2011 reunion tour. It has now been 30 years since the Manchester legends released a record, with their last full-length project ‘Second Coming’ dropping in 1994. Although the band reunited briefly for a 2011 tour, and released two singles in 2016 before their split in 2019, they never made any new albums – and now, guitarist Squire has said why. In an interview with The Guitarist (via Music News), Squire said that “no one wanted to do it – so it turned out to not be that frustrating…

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Microsoft shared new details about its plans for Xbox hardware, teasing the next generation of Xbox consoles and providing updates about its gaming business in a special edition of the Official Xbox Podcast Thursday. While the company confirmed that four Xbox-exclusive games would launch on PS5 and Nintendo Switch, it reiterated its commitment to developing Xbox hardware and exclusives titles on the platform. In the podcast, Xbox president Sarah Bond said that Microsoft was focussed on delivering the “largest technical leap” for a new console generation for the next Xbox.Bond also confirmed that fans could expect new Xbox hardware later…

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The AI program Sora generated a video featuring this artificial woman based on a text promptSora/OpenAI OpenAI has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence system, a program called Sora that can transform text descriptions into photorealistic videos. The video generation model is spurring excitement about advancing AI technology, along with growing concerns over how artificial deepfake videos worsen misinformation and disinformation during a pivotal election year worldwide. The Sora AI model can currently create videos up to 60 seconds long using either text instructions alone or text combined with an image. One demonstration video starts with a text prompt that describes…

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Amazon, a company that employs more than 1.54 million people, has claimed that the National Labor Relations Board Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency responsible for protecting the rights of workers, is unconstitutional. Amazon made the claim in a legal document filed on Thursday as part of a case in which prosecutors from the Board have accused the e-commerce giant of discrimination against workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island who had voted to unionize, according to The New York Times.Amazon is not the first company to challenge the Board’s constitutionality. Last month, Elon Musk’s SpaceX sued the NLRB…

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It’s so good to have Blue Bloods back, even if only for a little while. On Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 1, Jamie spoke for all the fans when he said it was good to be home. The 14th season opener delivered everything I love about this show: family conflicts, tough calls on cases, and a healthy dash of humor. Even Frank’s clash with Mayor Chase was entertaining, and I didn’t expect to like it! That pinata of Frank cracked me up every time it made an appearance. I especially loved Frank’s deadpan comment that he…

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