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The U.S. gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions. Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought highly enough of his new …

Roughly 12,800 years ago, as Earth was emerging from its last great ice age, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere suddenly plummeted back to near-glacial conditions. The cause of this abrupt shift—known as the Younger Dryas cool period—remains a mystery to this day, but new evidence may give credence to its most controversial explanation. Researchers analyzed sediment cores extracted from the …

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On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp.’s (NASDAQ:TNXP) Tonmya (cyclobenzaprine HCl sublingual tablets) for fibromyalgia in adults. Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and other symptoms like sleep disturbances and cognitive difficulties. Tonmya is a non-opioid, once-daily bedtime analgesic with a unique sublingual (under the tongue) formulation that is …

A planned BBC One documentary chronicling the final years of Ozzy Osbourne‘s life, Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, was abruptly pulled from the network’s schedule on Monday (Aug. 18) just hours before it was slated to air with no explanation. According to a BBC report, the network had been expected to air the doc on Monday evening, it “has postponed the …

Gen. David Allvin, the Air Force’s chief of staff, will retire this November after two years as the service’s highest-ranking uniformed officer. In a surprise announcement Monday, the Air Force said Allvin plans to continue serving as chief of staff until his successor is nominated and confirmed, to minimize disruption during the leadership change. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to …

Major Calif. food processing factory closing, leaving state after 78 years  SFGATEView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

The Apple Watch 11 is expected to arrive sometime in September 2025, assuming Apple sticks to its usual yearly launch schedule, but rumors are already beginning to surface about the Apple Watch 12, claiming it will be a much bigger update than this year’s model. A paywalled report in DigiTimes (via Wccftech) indicates there will be a significant redesign to …

Rolex/Tom O’Neal One of the most out-of-this-world-looking vehicles took home Best in Show honors at the 2025 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Despite the fact that there was some extremely strong competition from 229 cars this year, the winner — a 1924 Hispano-Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo — was clear and obvious the second …

Artificial intelligence (AI) software company Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) has a strong case as the most talked-about stock this year. The success of its AI tools amid the current AI boom has made it one of the more high-profile stocks on the market, and its stock price has followed the hype. Its stock is up 143% year to date through Aug. …