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☆ Democrats could suffer a 'landslide' defeat, sweeping them out of office everywhere, former Obama advisor says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewDemocrats could suffer a "landslide defeat," sweeping them out of office everywhere, a former Obama advisor told The Atlantic. Since his disastrous debate performance last month, Biden has fallen further behind former President Donald Trump — even in states key to Biden's reelection. Last week, Sabato's Crystal Ball moved Michigan from "Lean Democratic" to "Toss Up" and Minnesota from "Likely Democratic" to "Lean Democratic." If accurate, the latest poll numbers would narrow Biden's path to victory, as he is already fighting in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Persons: —, David Axelrod, Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Biden, Axelrod, Donald Trump —, Crystal Ball, Mark Levine Organizations: Service, Business, Electoral College, Bloomberg, Trump, Lean, Republicans, Democratic, Democratic Manhattan Borough, CNN Locations: Virginia , New Hampshire, Minnesota, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Virginia, Maine, Arizona , Georgia, Nevada , North Carolina , Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

☆ I spent about $1,000 to see Taylor Swift in Paris instead of the U.S. and it was absolutely worth the money
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Tasia Jensen | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Last year, a resale ticket to Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour cost an average of $2,183. I had never considered spending so much on live music before, but the Eras Tour featured songs spanning her entire career. I had been listening to Taylor Swift since I was about 14 years old and leaned on her music as I grew up. A few months later, Taylor Swift, now officially a billionaire, announced a European leg of her 2024 tour. For less money than Taylor Swift tickets were re-selling for in the U.S., I was able to eat tapas in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter and dine on sugar-dusted crepes with a view of the Eiffel Tower.

Persons: Taylor Swift's, Taylor Swift, Swift, StubHub, Tasia Jensen Organizations: Ticketmaster, New, Défense, Eiffel Locations: New York, Paris, States, Europe, Barcelona, Morocco, Spain, France, U.S

☆ The Painter of Revolution, on Both Sides of the Atlantic
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On July 14, 1789 (exactly 235 years ago this Sunday), some idealistic Parisians stormed a not especially crowded prison. They set in train a three-pronged revolution: for individual liberty, for civil equality, and, last and rarest, for communal obligation. In the National Assembly of 1789 and the National Assembly of 2024, some questions never get a final answer. Guillaume Lethière (1760—1832) was a Neoclassical painter of mixed race who has never, until now, been the subject of a solo museum show. Born in the French Caribbean, almost certainly into slavery, he reached the summits of artistic achievement in Paris and Rome.

Persons: égalité, Guillaume Lethière Organizations: National Assembly, Clark Art Institute Locations: French Caribbean, Paris, Rome, France, Caribbean, Europe

☆ NATO summit was a unique one, analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNATO summit was a unique one, analyst saysLuka Ignac, assistant director of the Transatlantic Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council, discusses the NATO summit in Washington.

Persons: Luka Ignac Organizations: NATO, Transatlantic Security, Atlantic Council Locations: Washington

☆ Opinion | Becoming a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Is Like Getting Into Harvard
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As a way to dissociate from political news, I’ve spent the past week mainlining stories about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders; it started when I binged the new Netflix docuseries “America’s Sweethearts,” which follows the women trying out and training for the 2023-2024 squad. I’m a New York Jew who got kicked out of ballet class when I was 4 because I lacked any discernible talent or interest. So I didn’t expect to fall in love with a show that is so steeped in Southern and dance culture. Because the newbies are competing for positions against veterans, the acceptance rate in any given year can be comparable to that of an Ivy League school. The seven episodes of the Netflix series weren’t enough for me.

Persons: I’ve, I’m, Caitlin Dickerson, Reece, ”, “ Organizations: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Netflix, Jew, Ivy League, Cowboys, CMT Locations: New

☆ Microsoft ditches OpenAI board observer seat amid regulatory scrutiny
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Microsoft has ditched the board observer seat at OpenAI that has drawn regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, saying it was not necessary after the AI start-up’s governance had improved significantly in the past eight months. Microsoft took a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI’s board in November last year after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took back the reins of the company, which operates the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The seat meant it could attend OpenAI’s board meetings and access confidential information but had no voting rights on matters including electing or choosing directors. The observer seat and Microsoft’s more than $10 billion investment in OpenAI have triggered unease among antitrust watchdogs in Europe, Britain and the US over how much control it exerts over OpenAI. Microsoft cited OpenAI’s new partnerships, innovation and growing customer base since Altman’s return to the startup for giving up its observer seat.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI Organizations: CNN, Microsoft, British Locations: OpenAI, Europe, Britain

☆ What’s in Store for the 2024 Hurricane Season?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Christopher Kuo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Hurricane Beryl intensified into a Category 5 storm last week, it broke records and left a trail of damage across the Caribbean. The first named hurricane of the season, Beryl is the earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane ever recorded, and also the first Category 4 hurricane to form in the Atlantic in the month of June — a portent of what experts say is a hurricane season that will be much more intense than usual. Hurricane season usually runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, with most storms developing between mid-August and mid-October. If you’re planning to travel during this hurricane season, here’s what you should know. How bad will hurricane season be this year?

Persons: Beryl Organizations: Atlantic, Atmospheric Administration, Colorado State University Locations: Caribbean, Texas, Gulf of Mexico, United States

☆ What the rest of hurricane season could hold after Beryl made early-season history
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Collin Reid/AP A boat damaged by Hurricane Beryl lies on its side at a dock in Kingston on Thursday. Leo Hudson/AP Simone Francis gathers items from her home that were blown away by Hurricane Beryl in Old Harbor, Jamaica, on Thursday. Ricardo Hernandez/AP Pastor Winston Alleyne clears trees felled by Hurricane Beryl in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on July 2. Lucanus Ollivierre/AP Fishing boats, damaged by Hurricane Beryl, sit in a heap at the Bridgetown Fisheries in Barbados on July 1. Randy Brooks/AFP/Getty Images Brad Reinhart, senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, tracks Hurricane Beryl on July 1.

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☆ Sanctions on Russian oil brought Putin and Modi closer. Now they’re in a nuclear embrace
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Angela Dewan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Modi, who leads the world’s biggest democracy, has propped Putin up by making India one of a few loyal customers of Russian oil and gas throughout the two-year war in Ukraine. For all the controversies over nuclear power, it’s a zero-carbon form of energy when generated and it’s fast becoming part of many countries’ answer to the climate crisis. “Clearly the Kremlin has decided that would be a good idea, and some countries are keen to expand their own nuclear power production. It changed its tune in May, when it banned Russian uranium imports, and is on a quest to rapidly develop its own industry to produce HALEU to fuel its own next-generation reactors. It can only benefit India being part of closer collaboration in the Arctic.”She added that India was also benefiting from processing Russian crude oil.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, Putin, Modi, Modi’s, ” Elisabeth Braw, Gavriil, Biden, ”, Alan Ahn, GAVRIIL GRIGOROV, ” Braw Organizations: CNN, Indian, TASS, Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative, ., Getty, Energy, Washington DC, Getty Images Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine —, India, Ukraine, Europe, . Russian, AFP, China, United States, Washington

☆ Stephen King, Sarah Jessica Parker and More Share Their Top Books of the 21st Century
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( The New York Times Books Staff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +26 min

To determine the best books of the 21st century , The New York Times Book Review and The Upshot polled hundreds of literary luminaries. Stephen King Stephen King has written more than 60 books, many of which have been adapted for film and television. Min Jin Lee Min Jin Lee has written two novels: FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES and PACHINKO, which was one of The Times’s 10 Best Books of 2017. Scott Turow Scott Turow is an attorney and writer best known for legal thrillers like PRESUMED INNOCENT and THE BURDEN OF PROOF. DU BOIS, was one of The Times’s 10 Best Books of 2021.

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Nix, Nathan Hill, Edmund White ●, Peter Matthiessen ●, Michael Ondaatje ●, Jeanette Winterson Tiya Miles Tiya Miles, Frederick Douglass, David W, Blight, Andrew Sean Greer ●, Michael Pollan ●, Dara Horn ●, Stephen Greenblatt ●, Jami Attenberg Jami Attenberg, Ada Limón ●, Jonathan Franzen, Alison Bechdel, Sloane Crosley, Alexander Chee ●, Patti Smith ●, Morgan Parker ●, Sara Novic Stephen L, Carter Stephen L, Carter, Deirdre McCloskey ●, Mohsin Hamid ●, Virginia Postrel, Umberto, Geraldine Brooks ●, Richard Powers ●, Jane Brox ●, David Bentley Hart, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Sarah Schulman Sarah Schulman, Mattilda Bernstein, Natasha Trethewey ●, Adania Shibli, Ned Blackhawk ●, Stephanie E, Rogers, Martha S, Steven W, Raja Shehadeh ●, Hugh Ryan Elizabeth Hand Elizabeth Hand, Rene Denfeld ●, Henry Darger, John M, MacGregor ● “, Dan Chaon ● “ James Tiptree Jr, Julie Phillips ●, Kelly Link, Morgan Talty ●, Robert Macfarlane ●, William Gibson Dion Graham Dion Graham, Jonathan Eig’s, Colson 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☆ Florida residents were shocked to see a manatee swimming in their human-made lake. A biologist thinks she knows how it got there.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewSouth Florida residents recently noticed an unusual new neighbor in their artificial lake: a manatee. Some Florida manatees travel through the ocean around the US, from Texas to as far north as Delaware. Experts have seen manatees in this area for the past few years, so the big visitor isn't totally unique. How to help your local, neighborhood manateeSometimes people can be a little overzealous in trying to help manatees, Howell said. AdvertisementIf Florida residents are concerned about a manatee who seems in distress, they can call the Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-3922, Howell said.

Persons: —, Bill Barnett, Amber Howell, Howell Organizations: Service, Pembroke Pines, WPLG, Business, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Thomson, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration Locations: Florida, Pembroke, Riviera Beach, Thomson Reuters Florida, Texas, Delaware

☆ Beryl regains hurricane strength as it bears down on Texas coast
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Lifeguard Sebastian Gonzales watches over people at the beach as tides rise and clouds loom overhead just before hurricane Beryl is expected to make landfall on Sunday, July 7, 2024 in Galveston. "Life-threatening storm surge, heavy rainfall, and strong winds are ongoing across portions of Texas," the hurricane center said. A hurricane warning is in effect for the Texas coast from Mesquite Bay north to Port Bolivar, the center said. People on the Texas coast boarded up windows and left beach towns under evacuation order. Along the Texas coast, many residents and business owners took the typical storm precautions but also expressed uncertainty about the storm's intensity.

Persons: Sebastian Gonzales, Beryl, we've, Gov, Dan Patrick, Greg Abbott, Port Lavaca, Jimmy, Percy Roberts, Ken Waller, Waller, Roberts, Sargent, Beryl lurked, Hurricane Harvey, Vincent Organizations: National Hurricane Center, Gov, Atlantic, Corpus Christi, Houston, midafternoon, Christi, Federal Emergency Management Agency Locations: Galveston, Texas, Mexico, Caribbean, Matagorda , Texas, Corpus Christi, Mesquite Bay, Port Bolivar, Matagorda Bay, Houston, Beryl's, Arkansas, Port, Baffin Bay, Corpus, Matagorda, Hurricane, Yucatan, Jamaica, Barbados, St, Grenadines, Grenada, Venezuela

☆ Persistent heat wave in the US shatters new records, causes deaths in the West and grips the East
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Many areas in Northern California surpassed 110 degrees, with the city of Redding topping out at a record 119 degrees. Due to the high temperatures, emergency medical helicopters were unable to respond, as the aircraft cannot generally fly safely over 120 degrees, officials said. Death Valley has reached or exceeded 125 degrees every day since July 4. “Death Valley during the summer has always been a bucket list thing for me. Well, high temperatures across (western Nevada and northeastern California) won’t get below 100 degrees until next weekend,” the service posted online.

Persons: —, Bryan Jackson, ”, Mike Reynolds, Chris Kinsel, Kinsel, it’s, I’ve, Natasha Ivory, “, ” Ivory, Fox5 Vegas, “ I’m, ” Jill Workman Anderson, “ Young, won’t, Tracy Housley, let’s, ” Housley, “ Let’s, Copernicus, Carlo Buontempo, Robert Shackelford, Rachel Ramirez, Angela Dewan Organizations: Los Angeles, Weather, West and, West and Pacific Northwest, Death, National Weather Service, Vegas, Atlantic Locations: Los, U.S, Death, West, West and Pacific, Northern California, Redding, California, Las Vegas, Nevada, Mount Charleston, Vegas, Oregon, Salem, East Coast, Baltimore, Lake Tahoe, Reno , Nevada, , California, Death Valley, Manchester, England, Maricopa County, Phoenix, Paris

☆ Beryl leaves millions of Texans without power as dangerous heat descends on the region
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Restoring power to millions of Texans slammed by the deadly and destructive storm Beryl could take days or even weeks, posing a dangerous scenario for residents who will not have air conditioning as sweltering heat settles over the state. Beryl slammed into southern Texas as a Category 1 hurricane Monday, knocking out power to more than 2.5 million homes and leaving at least 8 people dead in Texas and Louisiana. As it hurtles northeastward, it is bringing flooding and the threat of tornadoes across eastern Texas, western Louisiana and Arkansas. “The lack of proper cooling combined with many people outdoors cleaning up after Beryl could produce dangerous heat conditions,” the National Weather Service in Houston said. Despite weakening, Beryl will still produce flooding and tornadoes in the US as it moves inland through mid-week.

Persons: Beryl, Thomas Gleeson, Houston Mayor John Whitmire, CenterPoint, “ We’re, We’ll, ”, Flood Organizations: CNN, Texans, National Weather Service, Public, Commission, Texas, CenterPoint, Houston Mayor, US, Atlantic Locations: Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Houston, Galveston, Caribbean, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Canada

☆ Opinion: A landmark NATO summit in Washington. But in Ukraine, there’s little cause for celebration
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Opinion Michael Bociurkiw | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Odesa CNN —As Washington prepares to welcome world leaders for a landmark summit commemorating 75 years of NATO, some 5,000 miles away I was having a heart wrenching dinner conversation. Michael Bociurkiw Chrystia Chudczak“My dreams have been shattered,” a Ukrainian friend, Inna Ivanova, told me at a restaurant tucked away in an obscure corner of Odesa. The question on everyone’s lipsLooming over the summit will be the question of Ukraine’s desperately sought NATO membership. Meanwhile in WashingtonThe forecasted record heat won’t be the only thing making NATO leaders in Washington break into a sweat. Given the high stakes for Ukraine, people here will be watching developments in Washington closely.

Persons: Michael Bociurkiw, Odesa, Michael Bociurkiw Chrystia, ”, Inna Ivanova, Inna, Vladimir Putin, Ukraine’s, Ukraine Ivanna, Tsintsadze, Biden, Oleksandr Gimanov, Bohdan Chomiak, What’s, I’ve, that’s, Russia wouldn’t, Kyiv should’ve, Donald Trump, —, Joe Biden’s, General Jen Stoltenberg’s, Kira Rudik Organizations: Atlantic Council, Organization for Security, Cooperation, CNN, Odesa CNN, Washington, NATO, Bucharest NATO, Ukraine, Getty, Kyiv, Twitter, Trump, Golos Party Locations: Europe, Ukrainian, Odesa, Germany, Washington , DC, Ukraine, Washington, Bucharest, Georgia, Moscow, Brussels, Lviv, Russian, AFP, Kyiv, Russia, Ukraine’s

☆ Biden is acting incredibly defensively towards people who care about him the most: Arthur Brooks
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBiden is acting incredibly defensively towards people who care about him the most: Arthur BrooksArthur Brooks, AEI president emeritus, Harvard University professor and The Atlantic contributing writer, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the state of the 2024 race, increasing calls for President Biden to reconsider his bid for reelection, how leaders should transition, and more.

Persons: Biden, Arthur Brooks Arthur Brooks Organizations: AEI, Harvard University Locations: Atlantic

☆ Beryl bears down on Texas, where it is expected to hit after regaining hurricane strength
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Olive Rowe states, "everything is gone, everything is gone," as she stands in her home that was destroyed when Hurricane Beryl passed through the area on July 05, 2024 in Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Mexico after passing through Caribbean islands, including Jamaica. Other parts were under tropical storm warnings. "We're expecting the storm to make landfall somewhere on the Texas coast sometime Monday, if the current forecast is correct," said Jack Beven, a senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. It then battered Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane, toppling trees but causing no injuries or deaths before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved across the Yucatan Peninsula.

Persons: Olive Rowe, Hurricane Beryl, Beryl, Sargent, We're, Jack Beven Organizations: Corpus Christi, National Hurricane Center Locations: Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, Hurricane, Mexico, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Baffin Bay, Corpus, Houston, Miami, Yucatan, . Texas

☆ Texas Braces for Beryl, With Over a Million Under a Hurricane Warning
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Kate Selig | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As Tropical Storm Beryl makes its way up the Gulf of Mexico, Texas is bracing itself for the storm to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on its coast, with several counties issuing evacuation notices and over a million residents under a hurricane warning early Sunday morning. After making landfall in Mexico, Beryl weakened to a tropical storm. But it is expected to strengthen to a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall again on Texas’ shores on Monday morning. The center predicts that tropical storm conditions will begin Sunday night, with hurricane conditions possible by early Monday. Forecasters say the storm could dump five to 10 inches of rainfall across portions of the Gulf Coast and eastern Texas; some areas could get as much as 15 inches.

Persons: Beryl Organizations: National Hurricane Center, Christi Locations: of Mexico , Texas, Caribbean, Mexico, Texas, of Mexico, Gulf

☆ Beryl set to strengthen on approach to Texas due to hot ocean temperatures
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A view shows damage caused by Hurricane Beryl on Union Island, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, in this undated handout picture obtained by Reuters on July 5, 2024. Beryl hit Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 hurricane on Friday, then weakened to a tropical storm. The hurricane center forecasts it will hit as a strong Category 1 storm, but wrote "this could be conservative if Beryl stays over water longer" than expected. "People in southern Texas now need to really keep an eye on the progress of Beryl," Beven said. Beryl set the record for the earliest Category 4 with winds of at least 130 mph (209 kilometers per hour) — the first-ever category 4 in June.

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☆ Hurricane Beryl: Damaging winds and storm surge could hit South Texas this weekend
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Dalia Faheid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Tropical Storm Beryl will strengthen as it tracks toward the Texas-Mexico border this weekend, bringing a risk of damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge and dangerous flooding to Texas beginning late Sunday. • Hurricane and storm surge watches issued: Hurricane and storm surge watches were extended eastward along the Texas coast Friday night. • Beryl expected to slam South Texas: Beryl is forecast to make landfall over South Padre Island, Texas, close to the Texas-Mexico border, as a Category 1 hurricane late Sunday night, according to the National Hurricane Center. • At least nine dead due to Beryl: Beryl became the earliest Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic on record earlier this week. Randy Brooks/AFP/Getty Images Brad Reinhart, senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, tracks Hurricane Beryl on Monday.

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☆ The American Inspiration for Britain’s First Female Chancellor
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Eshe Nelson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After 14 years in the shadows, Britain’s Labour Party has returned to governing. And the country’s first female chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, is faced with the tough job of restoring Britain’s economic growth prospects and ending a decade and a half of stagnation. For inspiration, she has turned to another glass-ceiling-shattering woman, on the other side of the Atlantic: the U.S. Treasury secretary, Janet L. Yellen. Ms. Reeves was named chancellor on Friday after the Labour Party won a majority in Thursday’s general election. Ms. Yellen’s “modern supply-side economics” aims to bolster economic growth by increasing the number of workers and raising productivity while reducing inequality.

Persons: Rachel Reeves, Janet L, Reeves, Yellen, Yellen’s Organizations: Britain’s Labour Party, U.S, Treasury, Labour Party Locations: United States

☆ Fossil analysis reveals how Denisovans thrived on the ‘roof of the world’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The grasslands, glaciers and snow-tipped peaks of the Tibetan Plateau are breathtaking, but the vast expanse in Central Asia is also one of Earth’s harshest environments. Archaeologists long believed the Tibetan Plateau — more than 13,000 feet (about 4,000 meters) above sea level — was one of the last places on the planet to be settled. We are familyBaishiya Karst Cave is seen at the edge of Ganjia Basin on the Tibetan Plateau. Now, Baishiya Karst Cave, on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, is helping answer many questions about who the Denisovans were. The analysis is shedding light on how the extinct humans thrived in the ice age environment for more than 100,000 years.

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☆ Beryl moves into the Gulf of Mexico after battering Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, takes aim at Texas
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Beryl moved into the the Gulf of Mexico Friday and took aim at the south Texas coast after battering Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Texas officials issued disaster declarations and urge coastal residents to prepare as the storm headed their way. The storm's center Friday afternoon was in the Gulf just off Mexico, about 615 miles (995 kilometers) southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas. Some Texas counties have already issued voluntary evacuation orders in low-lying areas, and Texas officials urged coastal residents to prepare. Beryl spread destruction in Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados this week.

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☆ She invited a stranger to join her on vacation in Italy. ‘It went from zero to 100, really, really quick’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +25 min

“I was like, ‘Okay, let’s see what the guys look like in Vienna,’” Carter recalls. “If I’m going to meet up with this guy, I should FaceTime him to make sure he’s real,” she thought. “I was thinking, ‘This is either going to go really good or really bad,’” Carter recalls. “It went from zero to 100, really, really quick, in terms of comfort. And either I’m going to have to move here, or he’s going to have to move to America.

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☆ A family of 4 learned to sail and now call a 35-foot boat home as they travel the world with their dog
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( George Fallon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Sailing Pickle Family lives a life that many dream of: They sail around the world and explore new countries on a regular basis. Nicky, Chris, their youngest children, 15-year-old Beau and 10-year-old Bear, plus their Doberman, Buddy, began doing just that in 2019. The Pickle family has weathered some storms and explored many places alreadyThe Pickle family has sailed around England. AdvertisementThe Sailing Pickle Family travels with their dog. Even if you're sick and dying, you have to check the weather," Nicky told BI.

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