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On Saturday morning, the coastal town of San Clemente became ground zero in the battle between California and the Trump administration over a preplanned live-fire exercise over the freeway during a military event at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. A 17-mile stretch of Interstate 5 was periodically closed through Camp Pendleton. The northern side of the closure was just outside …

A collaborative effort between scientists has led to the isolation of a complex with two iodine(I)-silver(I) coordination bonds, opening up possibilities for other complexes with unconventional bonding. Metal–metal bonds between metal cations are common, ranging from the manganese–manganese single bond in Mn2(CO)10 to the quadruple rhenium–rhenium bond in Re2Cl82-. Similar bonds between non-metal and metal cations are much rarer, often …