President Biden this week announced a long-awaited plan to forgive student debt for millions of borrowers — and criminals will likely leverage the news to steal from unsuspecting victims, the Federal Trade Commission warned on Friday. “Nobody can get you in early, help you jump the line or guarantee eligibility,” said a consumer alert issued
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA started the countdown Aug. 27 for its first attempt to launch its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for an uncrewed flight around the moon. The countdown for the Artemis 1 launch formally started at 10:23 a.m. Eastern after a meeting of the mission management team. Liftoff is
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News Arcade Fire’s Win Butler Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women; Frontman Responds Allegations of inappropriate behavior in his life offstage contrast with Butler’s virtuous public reputation. In lengthy comments, the frontman claims his extramarital relationships were consensual. By Marc Hogan August 27, 2022 Facebook Twitter Graphic by Marina Kozak, photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty
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It’s another week of big premieres on broadcast, streaming, and cable! The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has its premiere, and we are so excited. Check out our recommendations for the week ahead. Saturday, August 27 8/7c Bodyguard Seduction (Lifetime) A businesswoman requires a Bodyguard when there are threats against her. However,
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Defect bits: representation of two n-bits along a defect line (shown in black). Shown are the orientations of the rod-like molecules that comprise liquid crystals. (Courtesy: Žiga Kos and Jörn Dunkel/Science Advances) Topological defects in liquid crystals are mathematically analogous to quantum bits, researchers in the US have shown theoretically. If a system based on
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SAN FRANCISCO – With recent grants from government agencies, Dawn Aerospace is refining its nitrous-based satellite propulsion technology. Dawn, based in New Zealand and the Netherlands, announced in May the first in-orbit demonstration of its B20 thrusters on a D-Orbit ION Satellite Carrier. Since reaching that milestone, the company has been signing up new propulsion
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The U.S. Secret Service returned $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic aid loans to the Small Business Administration, the agency announced Friday. The funds sent back to the SBA were obtained via the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program using both fabricated information and stolen identities. The suspects used Green Dot Bank, a fintech institution,
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Earlier this month, the Biden administration took a major step in combating the climate crisis with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes roughly $370 billion in energy and climate incentives – mostly in the form of tax credits, according to Goldman Sachs. But with potential ripple effects on global supply chains as
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