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Associated PressThe US military will begin plans to withdraw troops from Niger
The United States will begin plans to withdraw troops from Niger, U.S. officials said Saturday, in what experts say is a blow to Washington and its allies in the region in terms of staging security operations in the Sahel. The planned departure comes as U.S. officials said they were trying to find a new military agreement. The prime minister of Niger, appointed by the ruling military junta, Ali Lamine Zeine, and U.S. deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell, agreed on Friday that the two nations would begin to plan the withdrawal of American troops, the U.S. State Department told The Associated Press in an email Saturday.
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Why do smoke alarms keep going off even when there’s no smoke?
An electrical engineer explains how smoke detectors work, and how to reduce the chances of a false positive.
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Taylor Swift draws backlash for 'all the racists' lyrics on new 'Tortured Poets' album
Global superstar Taylor Swift is drawing the ire of the internet after a lyric saying she wished she lived in "the 1830s but without all the racists."
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Princess Kate influences Prince William to make big change amid return to public duties
The Princess of Wales influenced Prince William to make a big change to his fashion sense when he headed to Sunbury-on-Thames for a visit to Surplus to Supper this week, marking his return to public duties
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WADA says 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive before Tokyo Olympics but it accepted contamination finding
The World Anti-Doping Agency accepted China's findings that 23 swimmers tested positive for a banned drug due to substance contamination.
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Future Air Force officers get a 30,000-foot view of death in this course
Views on death and the afterlife vary from person to person and culture to culture. This course gives US Air Force cadets a broad perspective on mortality and its effects on people and society.
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Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department broke Spotify record
The Tortured Poets Department became Spotify's most-streamed album in a single day, the platform said.
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Labrador woman going home after harrowing evacuation from raging fire's 'blast zone'
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A Newfoundland and Labrador woman worries she'll find the windows blasted out of her building when she returns home today after a massive fire nearby forced her, her husband and their six dogs to flee on Friday evening. Monica Legge says she had just sat down to dinner when her phone lit up with frantic messages about the fire at the old airport in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, a community of about 7,000 people in central Labrador. She says she was watching the massive blaze from he
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Victoria Beckham shows off toned arms in steamy photo with shirtless David Beckham
Victoria Beckham turned 50 on Wednesday and ahead of her birthday bash posed for a steaming photo with her husband, David Beckham. See photo.
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How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in life.
- Evening Standard
Man City vs Chelsea LIVE! FA Cup match stream, latest team news, lineups, TV, prediction today
The winner will face Manchester United or Coventry in the final
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Police launch murder investigation months after woman, 74, disappears
Bedfordshire Police said they believe Annette Smith has not been seen since November.
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Cyclists take part in slow ride for safer streets
Around 160 cyclists took part in the ride calling for safer streets for children.
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Hitchcock Park Cleanup
The Pottawattamie conservation has been hosting the litter busters clean up and this year their back with the dump busters
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Coronation Street's Isabella Flanagan pays tribute as close friend bows out from soap
Coronation Street star Isabella Flanagan has paid tribute after her close friend Savannah Kunyo bowed out of the soap this week.
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Iraq explosion at Iran-allied militias' base
Iraqi authorities said Saturday that they are investigating an explosion that struck a base belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of Iran-allied militias, overnight, killing one person and injuring eight.
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Dubai airport: Full schedule resumes after flooding chaos
Emirates airline has apologised for the disruption, saying its response was far from "perfect".
- Miami Herald
How Miami-Dade students are feeding astronauts. Inside NASA-funded program at Fairchild
“If you would’ve told me in middle school that I would be doing research for NASA, I would’ve never believed you.”
- The Conversation
Harnessing the brain’s immune cells to stave off Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases
Microglia, immune cells disguised as brain cells, are known as the janitors of the brain. Dialing up their usual duties just enough could provide an avenue to treat neurodegenerative disease.