Lima (AFP) – Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming the latest discovery of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital.

The Defense Department has mobilized 700 troops to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Florida, Louisiana and Texas.

The more modest goal is to optimize learning arithmetic. The ultimate goal is to optimize learning practical knowledge to the greatest possible extent. I know this is ambitious, but I think I solved the most difficult problems involved already.

83 years ago today, seven brave Czechoslovakian resistance fighters died after successfully assassinating the man who was one of the principal architects of the Holocaust.

A woman severely hurt in a bicycle crash with a Waymo robotaxi is suing the company, claiming one of its vehicles pulled over in a no-stopping zone next to a bike lane, and a passenger opened a door into her path — despite the car’s “Safe Exit” system touted by the Mountain View company as protection for passing cyclists.

In this News Brief, we are joined by Ashley Bohrer and Ben Teller of Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago to discuss media indifference to the US and Israel-imposed starvation of Palestinians, how sectarianism is central to the ADL's strategy, and why six JVP activists have decided to hunger strike to draw more attention to the Israeli and US-made famine in Gaza.

I really am lucky to live surrounded by such beauty!

The trustee overseeing Infowars host Alex Jones’ personal bankruptcy case is accusing the far-right conspiracy theorist of trying to shield more than $5 million from creditors, including relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut.

Streaming viewership exceeded cable and broadcast combined for the first time last month, report says

North Korea will send thousands of workers to help rebuild Russia's war-torn Kursk region, Moscow's security chief has said.

Huge update to performance for such an old game. I wonder if they're backporting changes they made for the next game.

The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6.4. This fresh new release improves on nearly every front, with progress being made in accessibility, color rendering, tablet support, window management, and more.

Republican Thomas Massie joins with Democrats in effort to require Congress approval before Trump attacks Iran

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/wealthy-americans-fuel-half-of-us-economy-consumer-spending (https://archive.ph/bdJ04)

In 2022, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) logged 758 complaints about Teslas suddenly decelerating for no reason on American highways (NHTSA ODI, 2022).

A civil society report by the organization Claim documented more than 3,000 anti-Muslim incidents in Germany in 2024.

Honda says growing expectations of a "data system in outer space" are going to increase the demand for rockets to launch satellites. So, the Japanese automaker quietly built one and tested it successfully.

Today's game is FBC: Firebreak. I usually avoid buying games Day 1, but i watched the Gameplay trailers and was honestly really excited. I bought a copy for me and a friend, and i had my brother drop in for player 3. Honestly really enjoyed it. A lot of people have been saying that it has a lack of Tutorials, and yeah, i get that. Once we got everything figured out though it kind of became a lot more fun. The first difficulty was quick, but kind of like a tutorial. The difficulties kind of build off each other to teach the basics of each game mode, which i like. I do think it maybe could use a labeling as a tutorial, but besides that it works in a way i enjoy.

There are fears the crackdown against ‘outsiders’ is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are returned by Bangladesh border guards

"Do you really think we haven't been watching the last 20 months in Gaza?" one critic asked Israeli officials.

"We must not get involved in Netanyahu's war against Iran," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

"It's embarrassing that some problematic far-right figures are speaking out more forcefully against direct military action than the so-called leaders of the opposition," said the executive director of Our Revolution.

NYC billionaires threaten to leave if progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani wins mayoral primary. But is their fear of losing wealth justified, or just a desperate attempt to maintain power and privilege?

Democratic US Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont introduced legislation on Monday to prevent the use of federal funds for any "illegal wars” in or against Iran without approval from Congress.

"Nobody will ever want to work for New York City again. Zero trust. Medicare Advantage is a bait and switch scam & betrayal. Enough!" wrote one New York City councilmember.

"Every one of these cases is preventable," said one UNICEF official. "The food, water, and nutrition treatments they desperately need are being blocked from reaching them."

didn't find it on instagram but here is an article with the same headline but it's from 2023 https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/10/30/what-a-third-world-war-would-mean-for-investors and behind a pay wall

A 4" e-ink phone that I hadn't heard of before. Seems like a promising low-distraction semidumb phone.

https://xcancel.com/BookerGWash/status/1935706798914236618#m

A US-based rights watchdog says at least 585 people have been killed in Iran as a result of Israeli strikes, with more than 1,300 others wounded.

Thursday’s Reuters/Ipsos survey featuring self-identified Democratic respondents found that about 62 percent backed the idea that party leadership should be replaced, while 24 percent did not support the idea, and 14 percent did not provide a response or did not know.

After getting ads to vote 20 times for "New day will rise" at the Eurovision now I'm getting ads to show how evil is Iran and why they must be stopped now.

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.

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"Despite franchise fatigue with Marvel and Star Wars, U.S. and Israeli producers are releasing a big-budget reboot of the blockbuster property."

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The home, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961, was one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century.