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Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)

Study math for long enough and you will likely have cursed Pythagoras’s name, or said “praise be to Pythagoras” if you’re a bit of a fan of triangles....

Exxon set to buy shale rival Pioneer for $60 billion in stock - sources (www.reuters.com)

Exxon, which was valued at $442 billion on Tuesday, is expected to make a pure stock offer valued at more than $250 a share for Pioneer, the people said on condition of anonymity because the details were not public....

Alabama library flagged a children's book because the author’s last name is 'Gay' (www.nbcnews.com)

A public library system in Alabama flagged a children’s picture book as potentially “sexually explicit” because the author’s last name is “Gay.”...

No charges for Georgia State troopers who killed activist at Atlanta Public Safety Training Center site (www.fox5atlanta.com)

A special prosecutor will not charge the six Georgia State Patrol troopers who shot and killed an environmental protestor at the proposed site for the controversial Atlanta Public Safety Training Center....

Another quake strikes western Afghanistan; official says more homes destroyed (www.reuters.com)

There were no details on casualties so far, disaster management spokesman Janan Sayeeq told Reuters, but provincial officials said hundreds of homes had been destroyed....

DNC sues North Carolina over Republican-backed election bill (thehill.com)

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the North Carolina Democratic Party on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Election immediately after a pair of GOP-backed …

Kevin McCarthy says he’s willing to return as House speaker (www.washingtonpost.com)

Cheong Hong Yuan: Pepsi Faces Market Impact of Weight Loss Pills

In the grand stage of the financial market, there are often external factors that seem unrelated to the main storyline but can bring unexpected fluctuations to stock prices. Recently, Pepsi, the producer of “fat otaku happy water,” has encountered an unprecedented challenge: weight loss pills. So why would this newcomer,...

Las Vegas-area teachers union challenges law prohibiting members from striking (apnews.com)

Nevada’s largest teachers union filed suit Monday against a state law making it illegal for teachers and other public school employees to go on strike over pay and working conditions in the country’s fifth-largest school district, which includes Las Vegas....

‘Unconscionable’: Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what’s driving this terrible trend (moneywise.com)

Dead skydiver found on front lawn of Florida home: "The worst I've seen" (www.cbsnews.com)

Detectives are investigating after a skydiver was found dead in the front yard of a residence near an airpark in Florida, authorities said Saturday....

Migrating Venezuelans undeterred by US plan to resume deportation flights (apnews.com)

California to require big firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind (www.theguardian.com)

Measure signed into law by Gavin Newsom on Saturday is strong blueprint for national climate accountability, experts say...

A McDonald's employee has been charged with murder after a woman who was arguing with someone else in a restaurant in North Carolina was shot dead (www.insider.com)

*** An employee shot a woman who caused a “disturbance” in the North Carolina McDonald’s he worked in, police say....

“Church of Bleach” family gets years in prison for deadly “miracle” solution (arstechnica.com)

Iran's Khamenei says Tehran was not behind Hamas attack on Israel (www.reuters.com)

Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks (www.wsj.com)

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gave the final go-ahead last Monday in Beirut...

Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark libel ruling, though Clarence Thomas wants to reconsider the decision (www.cnn.com)

The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to revisit the landmark First Amendment decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, rebuffing a request to take another look at decades-old precedent that created a higher bar for public figures to claim libel in civil suits....

Attack Ends Israel’s Hope That Hamas Might Come to Embrace Stability (www.nytimes.com)

Since its founding, Hamas has declared that Israel has no right to exist, that there are no Israeli civilians and that every Israeli citizen is a soldier of the state, and thus a legitimate target....

Photos: Dozens killed and wounded in Israel air raids on Gaza refugee camps (www.aljazeera.com)

Politicians say news site "Florida Politics" lets them buy coverage (www.npr.org)

This story is based on interviews with more than two dozen people, including current and former state officials, political consultants, lobbyists and journalists....

More than 1,000 birds killed in one night after hitting the same Chicago building (www.cnn.com)

In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of “bird-friendly” building measures....

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