Will They Find It? Biggest Loch Ness Monster Hunt Launched Trending News: Loch Ness in Scotland is buzzing with activity as the hunt for the legendary Loch Ness Monster reaches new heights. This weekend's "Quest 2024" event marks the biggest search ever, ... 06/4/2024 - 12:04 am | View Link
Search for Loch Ness Monster captures unexplained noise and 'sighting' photo The search took place on the 90th anniversary of the first organised surface watch of Loch Ness, Sir Edward Mountain’s expedition with a team of 20 volunteers named the ‘Watchers of the Monster’. 06/3/2024 - 2:58 am | View Link
Satellite Images Show Widening Destruction Amid Israeli Push Toward Central Rafah Much of what has been seen is consistent with the aftermath of Israeli bombardment and ground operations elsewhere in Gaza since the war began last October. May 7 May 15 Destruction Israeli ... 05/15/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Satellite images show Russia no longer using Crimean bridge to supply troops in Ukraine Analysis of satellite images shows that the bridge, which Russia built after annexing Crimea in 2014, has almost no traffic and may therefore no longer represent an effective military target for ... 05/5/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Tracking screen time is like counting calories: It is partially accurate but misleading. The World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics provide time-based guidelines for screens in young children: For babies and toddlers, keep the screens to Facetime family and friends. For younger kids, 1 to 2 hours, and from ages 6 to 12, keep it to roughly 2 hours.
For those who are not raising children, the guidelines seem straightforward.
Hong Kong, the Chinese enclave that’s still struggling to revive its tourism economy post-pandemic and in the wake of a Beijing-influenced crackdown on civil liberties, has taken a new approach to wooing visitors: curbing its residents’ reputation for rudeness.
Earlier this week, the city government launched a new campaign to promote politeness.
The filmmakers behind Netflix’s latest documentary—How to Rob a Bank— do not want viewers to take its title literally. Although the film, out June 5, features accounts from real bank robbers who explain how they got people to hand over cash, directors Seth Porges and Stephen Robert Morse hope nobody gets ideas after watching it.
Despite the countless documentaries, movies, TV shows, and books on World War II, 63% of American millennials and Gen Z do not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a 2020 state-by-state survey conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The survey found that 48% could not name a concentration camp or ghetto.
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Netflix hopes to change that with Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial, an ambitious new World War II documentary out Wednesday that’s geared towards younger audiences.
BEIRUT — A gunman was captured by Lebanese soldiers after attempting to attack the U. S. Embassy near Beirut on Wednesday, the military said.
The attack took place as tensions continued to simmer in the tiny Mediterranean country, where months of fighting between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops has displaced thousands along the border, following years of political deadlock and economic hardship.
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Read More: Militant Group Hezbollah Is on the Sidelines of the Israel-Hamas War.
NEW YORK — Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime.
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When the editors refused the request and published the piece Monday morning, the board—made up of faculty and alumni from Columbia University’s law school—shut down the law review’s website entirely.