2 hours ago Fun Facts: The first ever TV dinners were created from Thanksgiving leftovers in 1953

Did you know that Thanksgiving leftovers inspired the first ever TV dinners, and that the first ever Thanksgiving meal likely didn't include turkeys? Learn more with our fun facts!

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3 hours ago Kennedy's stance on vaccines could affect the lives of millions of people

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Eric Garcia, Washington correspondent for "The Independent," about President-elect Trump's nominee to lead health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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6 hours ago Director Ridley Scott said Denzel Washington's 'Gladiator II' character is 'very close' to Donald Trump: 'He creates chaos'

Director Ridley Scott said Denzel Washington's 'Gladiator II' character is 'very close' to Donald Trump: 'He creates chaos'  Business Insider

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8 hours ago California woman dies from Fresno County's first human case of rabies in more than 30 years

Fresno County health officials confirmed its first human case of rabies since 1992 has claimed the life of a California art teacher.

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9 hours ago Orcas have learned how to hunt and kill huge whale sharks, video shows

Orcas have learned how to hunt and kill huge whale sharks, video shows  The Washington Post

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20 hours ago Car tied to wealthy NY couple missing for 44 years pulled from murky pond

A car and human remains likely belonging to a couple who vanished 44 years ago was pulled from a pond in Georgia last week near a hotel they were staying in.

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20 hours ago Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and possibly interacted.

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25 hours ago AI can create a reasonable facsimile of a person's personality after two

A small team of computer scientists and sociologists, working with Google DeepMind, has developed an AI application that can generate a simulation of a person's personality after interviewing them for just two hours. The group has written a paper describing their work and where they believe such efforts are heading; it is available on the arXiv preprint server.

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31 hours ago Return to the Motherland or Illegal Land Transfer? Depends on Who You Ask (Encore)

In an episode we first posted in January, we go to the West African country of Ghana. The Ghanaian government began encouraging people of African descent from around the world to move to the country in 2019, calling it the "Year of Return". They even created settlements for the people who took them up on the offer, giving out free land. But our correspondent talks to locals who say their farm land was stolen to give to foreigners.

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