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Melania Trump is reimagining the position of First Lady during her second time in the role.

Disgraced Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was celebrated by the Clintons at an exclusive event after sex crime allegations against her emerged.

A homeowner nearly had a deadly encounter with a rattlesnake in their backyard after the five-foot snake expertly camouflaged itself in plain sight.

Several women over the age of 80 took a trip to the remote wilderness of Wolfe County's Campton when they decided to take a dip in the hot tub.

Shocking video footage captured the moment sharks and alligators met each other off the coast of South Carolina.

Emma Raducanu is working with a chiropractor who has formerly treated Formula One driver David Coulthard and legendary jockey A P McCoy.

Britney Spears did little to allay fan concerns when she posted a risqué photo to her Instagram on Saturday night. 

Every major US city has must-see sites, but not all are created equal. These are the top five worst in America.

"The truly universal properties of languages are not independent of our physiology and cognition," argues the co-author of a new study. Instead he says their research "strengthens the idea that intonation units are a universal feature of language." Phys.org explains: Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance — pauses, emphases, and turns arriving just in time? A new study has discovered that this isn't just intuition; there is a biological rhythm embedded in our speech... According to the study, led by Dr. Maya Inbar, alongside Professors Eitan Grossman and Ayelet N. Landau, human speech across the world pulses to the beat of what are called intonation units, short prosodic phrases that occur at a consistent rate of one every 1.6 seconds. The research analyzed over 650 recordings in 48 languages spanning every continent and 27 language families. Using a novel algorithm, the team was able to automatically identify intonation units in spontaneous speech, revealing that regardless of the language spoken, from English and Russian to endangered languages in remote regions, people naturally break their speech into these rhythmic chunks. "These findings suggest that the way we pace our speech isn't just a cultural artifact, it's deeply rooted in human cognition and biology," says Dr. Inbar. "We also show that the rhythm of intonation units is unrelated to faster rhythms in speech, such as the rhythm of syllables, and thus likely serves a different cognitive role...." Most intriguingly, the low-frequency rhythm they follow mirrors patterns in brain activity linked to memory, attention, and volitional action, illuminating the profound connection between how we speak and how we think. The work is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Police were called following reports the girl was assaulted on a pathway close to Tangier Road in Portsmouth just after 2.30pm on Sunday.

The I'm Like a Bird singer, 46, was dressed to impress for the gig as she showcased her figure in a racy cut out top with a denim overlay and chunky belt.

The 25-year-old nepo baby pleaded not guilty to five misdemeanor charges including third-degree assault and criminal obstruction of breathing

Jana Hocking attended a sex party thrown by Killing Kittens - a company founded by Emma Sayle, who attended the same school as Kate Middleton.

A member of the public uncovered multiple images of daggers and guns on a Snapchat story linked to the asylum seeker accommodation centre in Essex.

MATTHEW LAMBWELL IN NEW YORK: Raducanu was into the second round after thrashing Japanese qualifier Ena Shibahara 6-1, 6-2.

A French judge on Sunday charged a homeless man for the murders of four men whose bodies were found in the River Seine just outside Paris, prosecutors said.

The grandmother, 56, from London surprised fans this week after showcasing a new look, sharing photographs that highlighted her tiny waist line and smooth visage.

A businessman who terrorised two grey seal pups with a large wooden stick at a picturesque Scots harbour has been ordered to pay a fine.

"The ultimate test of climate projections is to compare them with what has played out..." says earth sciences professor Torbjörn Törnqvist, lead author on a new study published in the open-access journal Earth's Future (published by the American Geophysical Union). But after "decades of observations," he says his researchers "were quite amazed how good those early projections were, especially when you think about how crude the models were back then, compared to what is available now." "For anyone who questions the role of humans in changing our climate, here is some of the best proof that we have understood for decades what is really happening, and that we can make credible projections...." A new era of monitoring global sea-level change took off when satellites were launched in the early 1990s to measure the height of the ocean surface. This showed that the rate of global sea-level rise since that time has averaged about one eighth of an inch per year. Only more recently, it became possible to detect that the rate of global sea-level rise is accelerating. When NASA researchers demonstrated in October 2024 that the rate has doubled during this 30-year period, the time was right to compare this finding with projections that were made during the mid-1990s, independent of the satellite measurements. In 1996, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published an assessment report soon after the satellite-based sea-level measurements had started. It projected that the most likely amount of global sea-level rise over the next 30 years would be almost 8 centimeters (3 inches), remarkably close to the 9 centimeters that has occurred. But it also underestimated the role of melting ice sheets by more than 2 centimeters (about 1 inch). At the time, little was known about the role of warming ocean waters and how that could destabilize marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from below. Ice flow from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the ocean has also been faster than foreseen. "The findings provide confidence in model-based climate projections," according to the paper. Again, its two key points: The largest disparities between projections and observations were due to underestimated dynamic mass loss of ice sheets Comparison of past projections with subsequent observations gives confidence in future climate projections Thanks to Slashdot reader Mr. Dollar Ton for sharing the news.

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Amber Heaviland, 38, sparked a statewide Amber Alert when she allegedly took off from her San Antonio home with her daughter, Aurora Bojorquez, to dodge Child Protective Services (CPS).