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Live - Iran threatens "complete halt" to talks; U.S. official says they will resume - Iran launched drone and missile attacks targeting Kuwait and Bahrain on Sunday after the U.S. and Iran traded attacks earlier over the weekend. updated 9M ago

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Astronomers find 2 gigantic planets lighter than cotton candy -- The featherweight pair - orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away - are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than cotton candy.

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Ancient Egyptian burial site reveals centuries of changing traditions -- Human and animal remains unearthed in Egypt's Nile Delta reveal changing funerary practices over some 600 years, and the evolution of a key site itself.

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Telescope snaps most detailed photo yet of Milky Way's heart -- Euclid is on a mission to chart one-third of the sky in the hopes of shedding light on the enduring mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

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Interstellar comet may be oldest object ever seen in solar system -- Exactly where the comet 3I/ATLAS came from within the Milky Way remains a mystery.

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Seahorses and seadragons, some of Nature's most curious creatures -- Seahorses are unique ocean inhabitants with a head like a horse, a pouch like a kangaroo, a tail like a monkey, and the ability to camouflage themselves like a chameleon. They also exhibit an unconventional gender dynamic, in that the males do the work of carrying around fertilized eggs. Correspondent Conor Knighton goes in search of these fascinating fish - and their equally fascinating cousins, seadragons - at the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.

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Watch: Pentagon releases 6 new UFO videos -- The Defense Department released a third batch of UFO files on Friday, three weeks after its second drop. These are all of the videos in the latest tranche, plus analysis from astrophysicist Avi Loeb.

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Goblin shark seen alive in natural deep-sea habitat for the first time -- The goblin shark had only previously been seen when caught by fishermen and they died shortly afterward.

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World's largest whale graveyard found by sub at bottom of ocean -- The researchers saw many strange animals - many believed to be new to science - living off the whale carcasses.

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NASA names 4 astronauts for next Artemis mission -- NASA's Artemis III astronauts plan to carry out rendezvous and docking procedures with commercial moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin.

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Great white shark captured on video in Mediterranean in rare sighting -- Great white sharks are classified as "critically endangered" in the Mediterranean Sea, and underwater sightings are incredibly rare.

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Videos show U.S. rescue team pull mother, baby from rubble in Venezuela -- Hundreds of U.S. search and rescue workers are on the ground in Venezuela after deadly quakes struck the South American nation.

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Dangerous heat wave impacting large swathes of the U.S. this week -- A heat wave will blast a large swath of the U.S. this week. The National Weather Service says temperatures will feel hotter because of the high humidity that's arriving with it.

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Kaine says guardrails on Pentagon firings could see bipartisan support -- Sen. Tim Kaine said guardrails on Pentagon firings could see bipartisan support in Congress, following a string of high-level officers exiting the military during the second Trump administration.

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5 nursing students among 11 killed in French skydiving plane crash -- Mayor Mathieu Klein said the victims "died in full view of their loved ones, who were preparing to film the tandem skydives."

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3 firefighters killed, 2 injured fighting wildfires near Colorado-Utah border -- The U.S. Wildland Fire Service said the firefighters had been part of an interagency response to the Knowles and Gore fires near the Colorado-Utah border.

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How much water does AI really use? -- The heaviest demand on America's water supply isn't data centers or AI. It's from everyday uses such as growing food, watering lawns and flushing toilets. -- Jun 25

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Mass graves of dog remains found at Northern California animal rescue -- The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office said they found 600 dog collars in an area where they suspect dozens of dogs were killed.

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Alan Jackson gives emotional farewell concert -- Five years ago, Alan Jackson shared that he has a degenerative nerve condition that affects his balance called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, which he was first diagnosed with a decade prior.

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