An ex-girlfriend who helped expose Lostprophets rocker Ian Watkins as being a dangerous pedophile says she’s glad he was murdered in prison — and just surprised it didn’t happen sooner. “I was always waiting for this phone call,” Joanne Mjadzelics told the Daily Mail of her rocker ex having his throat slashed in the UK prison where he was serving …
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A Florida man has been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with the destructive Palisades Fire that killed a dozen people in Los Angeles earlier this year, officials said on Wednesday. The man, identified as 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, was arrested on suspicion of “maliciously” starting the blaze that later became the Palisades Fire, according to acting U.S. Attorney Bill …
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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was trying to play the long game Monday night. Which is why, when his team entered the ninth inning with a three-run lead in Game 2 of the National League Division Series, he gave the save opportunity to Blake Treinen instead of Roki Sasaki. If all things had been equal, it’s likely that Roberts would have …
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A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens first emerged outside of Africa. Leading scientists reached this conclusion after reanalysis of a skull known as Yunxian 2 discovered in China and previously classified as belonging to a member of the …
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People watch the first sunrise of the new year from a footbridge overlooking the city skyline in Seoul on January 1, 2024. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets mostly climbed in choppy trade Thursday, breaking ranks with Wall Street after investors continued selling tech names like Nvidia and Oracle for a second straight day. Nvidia slid almost …
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The man accused of firing shots at a Sacramento ABC-affiliate television station faced a judge for the first time Monday in federal court. Anibal Hernandez Santana was arrested by the FBI over the weekend after posting bail on local charges, a move that lawyers say came as a surprise. The federal criminal complaint alleges handwritten notes were found in his …
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Earth may have started recycling its crust and forming continents far earlier than many scientists expected. A new study links chemical clues inside ancient crystals to short, intense bursts of early subduction and rapid crust growth. The team analyzed tiny pockets of ancient magma sealed inside green olivine crystals and paired the chemistry with computer models of early Earth. The …
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Broadway News Broadway’s Cabaret Revival Will Close Earlier Than Expected; Billy Porter Out for Remainder With Illness The immersive staging of the Kander and Ebb musical will end a month sooner than announced. Billy Porter in Cabaret Marc Brenner Broadway’s immersive revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb‘s Cabaret has moved up its final performance at the Kit Kat Club, née …
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Animal stories History uncovered Genetics Ancient creatures See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about three years later they found the remains of more than a …
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A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how early life could have first appeared in the universe. This isn’t the first time astronomers have looked at that enigmatic galaxy, named JADES-GS-z11-0. It was …
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