How a child bride escaped Afghanistan and became a bodybuilding champion

Aided by her mother, Mahtab Amiri, who coordinated her escape, she left the country with Erfaan and was driven to Iran. From ...

Photos show how White House Hanukkah celebrations have changed through the years

Christmas celebrations at the White House date back to 1800, but Hanukkah wasn't acknowledged until much later.
Microsoft

Roadmap to fault tolerant quantum computation using topological qubit arrays

We describe a concrete device roadmap towards a fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture based on noise-resilient, topologically protected Majorana-based qubits. Our roadmap encompasses four ...
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‘The Chosen’ Creator Pleads With Followers To Help Make the Final Season a Reality

Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...
Wall Street Journal

How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine

The cocaine trade is far bigger and more geographically diverse than at any other point in history. Here’s how drug cartels are evading authorities using semi-submersibles to deliver shipments worth ...
Reuters

Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be considered closed

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered "closed in its entirety," but gave no further details, ...