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NASA is planning to bring forward a homecoming for stuck astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.

NASA, SpaceX hatch new plan to get stuck astronauts home

After eight months stranded in space, NASA and SpaceX have announced a new plan to bring two stuck astronauts back to Earth.

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Telstra investigated reports triple zero calls from a rural property failed during a fatal fire.

Triple 0 emergency calls did not connect during fatal fire

Three triple zero calls via Telstra dropped out during a fire emergency which killed a man due to weak mobile phone signal an inquiry has heard.

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Australian heiress Primrose Dunlop dead, aged 70, after famously being left at the altar

Australian heiress dead, aged 70

Dunlop, who was the daughter of Australian society icon Lady Primrose Potter, was in line for a $60 million fortune. 

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Cole Schmidtknecht, right, and his mother Shanon

Asthma attack kills US man after inhaler cost surges to $539

Cole Schmidtknecht tried to buy a three-month supply of his asthma inhalers in January, but his health insurance had stopped covering them. Six days later, he died from an asthma attack.

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Elon Musk gives a presentation at a SpaceX launch facility. His U.S. DOGE Service has fanned out across the federal government, with aides sometimes also taking posts at specific agencies. MUST CREDIT: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post

Musk’s 19yo acolyte ‘Big Balls’ takes on State Department

Edward Coristine, known online as ‘Big Balls’ has taken on new roles at the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security, raising concerns about his access to sensitive information.

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Elon Musk is making a massive play for an AI company.

Musk in $155b bid for AI startup

Billionaire Elon Musk is reportedly leading a $155 billion push to take over the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, 'to ensure it is a force for good'.

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TPG confirmed they are working to resolve the disruption.
David Schwimmer says there has not been "sufficient outrage" over Kanye West's X posts.

Friends star pleads with Musk to ban rapper from X

One of the much-loved Friends cast has emplored billionaire Elon Musk to remove ‘deranged’ rapper Kanye West from X after vile anti-Semitic posts.

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Technician scientists researching biotechnology at laboratory.

Your big questions about cancer, answered

The question of when and why, exactly, that happens — and what can be done to stop it — has long stumped cancer scientists and physicians.

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The real lesson of DeepSeek is that America’s approach to AI safety and regulations — the concerns espoused by both the Biden and Trump administrations, as well as by many AI companies — was largely nonsense.

The dangerous AI nonsense that Trump and Biden fell for

The real lesson of DeepSeek is that America’s approach to AI safety and regulations — the concerns espoused by both the Biden and Trump administrations, as well as by many AI companies — was largely nonsense.

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Bill and Beverly Bryan at a restaurant along the Tennessee River in 2022. (MUST CREDIT: Courtesy of Zarzaur Law)

Surgeon allegedly removed wrong organ then covered it up

THE WASHINGTON POST: Beverly Bryan alleges a surgeon killed her husband by mistakenly removing his liver instead of his spleen, then participated in a conspiracy.

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Australians are hungry for housing solutions which work.

The great Australian dream is now a fantasy

ANDREW BRAGG: Housing is one of the major issues facing Australia. Almost everyone knows someone who wants to buy a house but they can’t. A feeling of helplessness is taking over for millions of Australians. 

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An expert has explained how ‘faulty’ memory can cause parents to forget children left in cars.

Hot car deaths: The science behind how parents can forget a child in a vehicle

It might seem incomprehensible that a parent could leave a child in a car, but a neuroscientist has explained the phenomenon.

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