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5 of the Best Country Songs Turning 50 This Year
American country and western singer and musician Johnny Cash (1932 – 2003) performs on stage at the Painters Mill Music Far in Owing Mills, Maryland, September 29, 1977. He is strumming a guitar and standing in front of a microphone. Bassist Marshall Grant (1928 – 2011) of Cashs backing band The Tennessee Three plays behind…
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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has dramatically expanded its collection of detainees’ DNA, with new research from Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology estimating that the agency added as many as 920,000 genetic profiles to a national criminal database in 2025 alone. This matters because the vast majority of people in ICE custody…
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15 Sci-Fi Movies Like ‘Interstellar’
Collider has published a list recommending 15 sci-fi films for fans of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, aimed at those seeking similarly cerebral, visually spectacular space-set stories about survival, family and scientific ambition. The piece was updated on 3 August 2026, marking the tenth anniversary of Interstellar, and highlights the recent film Project Hail Mary as a…
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Sailor Honeymoon take us on a ‘14.5 Hour Flight From Seoul To London’ in exclusive playlist to accompany The Cover
South Korean punk trio Sailor Honeymoon have curated an exclusive playlist titled “14.5 Hour Flight From Seoul To London” to accompany their appearance on NME’s The Cover, a weekly feature spotlighting emerging global talent. The playlist blends Korean and Western artists, reflecting the band’s own cross-cultural sound and the wide-ranging influences behind their music. The…
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NASA opens first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years at Virginia facility
NASA has opened its first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years, marking a significant milestone for future aviation and space-exploration research. The Flight Dynamics Research Facility, unveiled on Friday at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will serve as a testing ground for future aircraft and space missions, consolidating capabilities that…
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‘Trumpeters? We think we’re the kings of the orchestra’: Wynton Marsalis prepares to blow the Edinburgh festival away
Wynton Marsalis, the veteran American trumpeter and composer, is bringing his 1999 symphony All Rise to open this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, with a performance uniting his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and massed choirs at Usher Hall. The piece, a large-scale fusion of jazz, orchestral and choral forces, was…
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Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister
Meta briefly and mistakenly took down a video posted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sparking days of public criticism and drawing regulatory scrutiny from the Indian government. The video showed Modi announcing a task force to reform university entrance exams, an issue that has fuelled a wave of youth protests in India after one…
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Defunct part of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will slam into the moon
A discarded upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to crash into the moon on Wednesday, 2 August, at around 2:35am ET, striking near Einstein Crater in the moon’s north-western region. The impact was not planned by SpaceX and highlights the growing amount of human-made debris drifting through space and eventually colliding…
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Revealed: All but three family members in this wedding photo were killed by Russian rocket in Ukraine
A wedding photograph has come to symbolise the devastating human cost of Russia’s war in Ukraine, after it emerged that all but three of the family members pictured were later killed in a Russian rocket strike. The image, once a happy record of a family celebration, has taken on tragic significance as a stark illustration…
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48 years later, anime’s most beautiful sci-fi space epic is officially making a comeback
A new theatrical film based on Galaxy Express 999, the acclaimed 1970s anime by the late Leiji Matsumoto, has been officially announced nearly 48 years after the original series debuted. The announcement, made via the creator’s official account on X on 25 July, confirms that Toei Animation, the studio behind the 1978 original, will produce…