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More than a decade of campaigning by Native nations led to the creation of a new national monument
US President Joe Biden has designated a national monument in Arizona’s Grand Canyon where he said, “The Grand Canyon is a national treasure and we want to protect it…as much as possible.” The monument will be called Baaj Nwaavjo I’tahveni Grand Canyon National Monument. The White House said the land inside the new monument has less than 2% of the known uranium reserves in the US.
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Russia andUkraine trade drone strikes
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday that it had shot down several Ukrainian drones on the Russian border and a Moscow airport had to stop flights after another one was destroyed. It was the fourth strike on the Russian capital in the last month. A woman was also killed by Ukraine shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, the city’s Moscow-appointed Mayor said on Sunday.
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Why the prosecutors want a protective order against Trump
The US Justice Department has asked for a protective order in former President Donald Trump’s criminal case related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. The order would “protect the use of information that’s provided in discovery”, a lawyer said. Trump was charged with four counts related to allegations that he attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
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The experts think that the LK-99 is a superconductor
A research team has discovered a new type of superconductor made from lead, which appears to have a ‘flat band’. The team used a method called’Meissner effect’ to find the structure of the new material. The material is similar to other lead phosphates and it may be the first time a superconductor has been discovered with a ‘flat band’.
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A landmark study has opened a new avenue for Black Americans to trace their ancestry
Researchers have used DNA from the remains of 27 people who were buried at the Catoctin furnace in US to link them to people in the present. They also identified clusters of people with high levels of Catoctin ancestry in the southern United States. They added that they have identified tens of thousands of living descendants in a consumer genetics database.
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Texas Medicaid’s enrollees have gone down since April
As many as 3.7 million people have lost Medicaid coverage in 41 states and the District of Columbia since the beginning of the Great Unwinding, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. Around 74% of these people are losing their coverage for “paperwork reasons”, the analysis said. Texas reportedly disenrolling 82% of its Medicaid recipients while Wyoming shed just 8% of its rolls.
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A whale pushes the boundaries of the animal kingdom
Palaeontologist Mario Urbina at National Major University of San Marcos in Peru has published a posthumous account of the discovery of a whale fossil in the Pisco Formation. Urbina said his team hadn’t even sure that they were bones. He added that it will tell a new story about the evolution of gigantism in whales.
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