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How NASA's Artemis Program Works—Moon to Mars Science

How NASA's Artemis Program Works—Moon to Mars

NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon and eventually reach Mars, using the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. Here's how the...

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How FISA Section 702 Surveillance Works Technology

How FISA Section 702 Surveillance Works

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows US intelligence agencies to collect foreign nationals' electronic communications witho...

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How the WNBA Draft Works—From Lottery to Pick Sport

How the WNBA Draft Works—From Lottery to Pick

An explainer on how the WNBA Draft selects new talent, from the weighted ping-pong-ball lottery that sets the draft order to the three-round process t...

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How the US Postal Service Works—and Why It's Broke Economy

How the US Postal Service Works—and Why It's Broke

The USPS delivers to 167 million addresses daily without tax funding. Here's how its unique business model works, why mail volume collapse and mandato...

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What Is the Enrollment Cliff—and Why Colleges Are Closing Economy

What Is the Enrollment Cliff—and Why Colleges Are Closing

The enrollment cliff, driven by plummeting birth rates after the 2008 recession, is now hitting U.S. higher education. Here's how it works, which coll...

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How the US Cuba Embargo Works—and Why It Persists Economy

How the US Cuba Embargo Works—and Why It Persists

The US embargo on Cuba is the longest trade embargo in modern history, spanning over six decades. Here's how it works, why Congress locked it into law...

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Why Home Distilling Is Illegal—and How That May Change Economy

Why Home Distilling Is Illegal—and How That May Change

Home brewing beer and wine is legal across the United States, but distilling spirits at home remains a federal felony. Here's why the ban exists, how...

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SpaceX-xAI Mega-Merger and Gemini 3.1 Mark AI's New Era Technology

SpaceX-xAI Mega-Merger and Gemini 3.1 Mark AI's New Era

SpaceX's record $250 billion acquisition of xAI and Google's launch of the ultra-efficient Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite model cap a historic Q1 2026 that saw...

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Iran-US Ceasefire Triggers Historic 16% Oil Price Crash Economy

Iran-US Ceasefire Triggers Historic 16% Oil Price Crash

President Trump and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and sending oil prices plunging more than 16% — the largest si...

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JD Vance in Budapest: American Campaign Support for Orbán Culture

JD Vance in Budapest: American Campaign Support for Orbán

U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Budapest for a two-day visit five days before the April 12 parliamentary elections, openly supporting Viktor O...

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Housing Market Stalls as Mortgage Rates Hit 7-Month High Living & Furniture

Housing Market Stalls as Mortgage Rates Hit 7-Month High

US mortgage rates climbed to 6.46%, their highest in seven months, as the war in Iran drives oil prices higher and reignites inflation fears — but ris...

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Artemis II Crew Shatters Apollo 13 Distance Record Science

Artemis II Crew Shatters Apollo 13 Distance Record

NASA's Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft reached a record 252,756 miles from Earth on April 6, surpassing Apollo 13's 56-year-old record by...

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