On September 14, at the 2026 Air and Space Cyber Conference in Maryland, Troy Meink, the 27 th Secretary of the United States Air Force, was giving a speech about how the military was stepping up to ...

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In the 19th and 20th centuries, this fishing village transformed into a city of more than three million inhabitants. But capitalist speculation, drug trafficking, and bloody political struggles ...

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What is it? It’s a bird dropping. A big bird dropping. From a big bird.

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With a name that means ‘sunlight’, the town of Nikko in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, is intimately bound to the ...

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of ...

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Her twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were made prisoners. But they still had a big role to play in Roman history.