U.S. — In a surprising turn of events, Senator Cory Booker’s 25-hour filibuster record that was just set on Tuesday was broken by your wife.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump welcomed a surprise guest to the Oval Office as Elton John, standing a surprising six feet tall, stopped by for the signing of executive orders regarding concert tickets.
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Annunciation (c. 1472–1475), is thought to be Leonardo da Vinci’s earliest complete work. Today is the Feast of the Annunciation
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In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star’s life can be utterly beautiful – as is the case with this planetary nebula called the Helix Nebula. Astronomers study these objects by looking at all kinds of light. This images show X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (magenta), optical light data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (orange, light blue), infrared data from the European Southern Observatory VISTA telescope (gold, dark blue), and ultraviolet data from GALEX (purple) of the Helix Nebula.
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