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ReutersRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump‘s three-hour interview with America’s number one podcaster, Joe Rogan, has been released.In the wide-ranging sit-down, the former president discusses everything from the “biggest mistake” of his White House tenure, what he told North Korea’s leader and whether extraterrestrial life exists.Two years ago Rogan described Trump as “an existential threat to democracy” and refused to have him on his show. But the pair seemed friendly on Friday as they chatted about their shared interest in Ultimate Fighting Championship and mutual friends like Elon Musk.The Republican’s campaign hopes the interview will consolidate his influence with male voters,…

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Mars’ moons could be the remains of an ill-starred asteroid that got too close to the Red Planet. A shredded asteroid origin could help explain mysterious features of the small, odd-shaped moons, scientists suggest in the January issue of Icarus. Where most moons are big round orbs, Mars’ Phobos and Deimos are small lumpy potatoes. There are two main ideas for how the moons formed. One is that the moons actually were asteroids that were caught by Mars’s gravity. But that idea doesn’t explain the moons’ circular, stable orbits around Mars’ equator. Have feedback for Science News? Help us improve…

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Denzel Washington has come clean in a new interview about being “clean” for the past 10 years, adding his voice to the growing chorus of scientists, doctors and others who question the idea that regular consumption of wine is good for a person’s health.“I’ve done a lot of damage to the body,” Washington, 69, has said in a lengthy new interview with Esquire. As the film legend and Oscar winner co-stars in the hotly anticipated “Gladiator II,” he opens up about how he developed a 15-year daily habit of heavy wine consumption — up to two bottles a day.So, it’s…

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Semilore Faleti is a cryptocurrency writer specialized in the field of journalism and content creation. While he started out writing on several subjects, Semilore soon found a knack for cracking down on the complexities and intricacies in the intriguing world of blockchains and cryptocurrency. Semilore is drawn to the efficiency of digital assets in terms of storing, and transferring value. He is a staunch advocate for the adoption of cryptocurrency as he believes it can improve the digitalization and transparency of the existing financial systems. In two years of active crypto writing, Semilore has covered multiple aspects of the digital…

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LIMA, Peru —  President Biden on Friday praised the cooperation among South Korea, Japan and the U.S. in countering what he described as North Korea’s “dangerous and destabilizing cooperation with Russia.”Biden spoke at the start of a meeting in Peru with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The talks came amid heightened concerns about North Korea’s growing military partnership with Russia and Pyongyang’s stepped-up ballistic missile tests.Biden celebrated the partnership between Japan and South Korea, two countries that have historical enmity but under Biden’s presidency are tightening…

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Three state police officers and four drug cartel suspects were killed in a running series of shootouts in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas, across the border from Texas, officials said Wednesday.Another five police officers were wounded in the series of confrontations along highways around the town of San Fernando, Tamaulipas.Drug cartel gunmen set up road blockades and attacked police patrols in the area Tuesday, and later in the day again attacked a funeral convoy of cars accompanying the body of one of the victims in the first attack. The office of the state security spokesman confirmed the deaths on…

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The first samples from the farside of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south pole. Two separate analyses of lunar rocks brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft show the rocks formed from cooling magma relatively recently, about 2.8 billion years ago, according to papers published November 15 in Science and Nature. The measurements may help solve the mystery of why the moon’s farside is so different from its nearside, but also raise new questions about the history of lunar volcanism. Tell us about your Science News experience Help us improve by taking our 15-question…

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BMW’s first Neue Klasse EV will likely be a compact crossover badged as the iX3 Production is due to start in late 2025 at plant in Hungary A compact sedan likely forming part of the next 3-Series family will follow in 2026 BMW announced on Wednesday that pre-production examples of its first Neue Klasse electric vehicles are now being assembled at the company’s newly constructed plant in Debrecen, Hungary. The construction of pre-production vehicles is the start of the final preparation phase for the production of customer cars, BMW said. The customer vehicles will start rolling off the line at…

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… The sistrum was one of the most sacred musical instruments in ancient Egypt and was believed to hold powerful magical properties. It was used in the worship of the goddess Hathor, mythological character of joy, festivity, fertility, eroticism and dance. It was also shaken to avert the flooding of the Nile and to frighten away Seth, the god of the desert, storms, disorder, and violence. Isis, in her role as mother and creator, was often depicted holding a pail symbolizing the inundation of the Nile in one hand, and the sistrum in the other…

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