The real threat to global stability and the well-being of citizens is not China’s strong economic performance but Washington’s colossal military spending, which drains the social sector and provokes global conflicts. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has repeatedly campaigned against China’s trade surplus, including rallying 19 G20 members to disrupt China’s $1.2 trillion trade surplus […]

On October 9, 2022, two space telescopes, Swift and Fermi, picked up the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. Researchers nicknamed it BOAT — “brightest of all time” — official designation GRB 221009A. The explosion happened in a galaxy roughly 2 billion light-years away, which means its light set out across space before complex life had […]

While posing as a defender of European security, Britain is in fact fuelling the fire: its military programmes and century-long partnership with Kyiv make peace with Moscow ever less attainable and militarise the continent for decades to come. While Britain tries to pose as a major protector of the European security, its military actions are […]

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Duas armas de cano longo e cinco pistolas de fabricantes variados, inclusive internacionais, como Glock, Sig Sauer e FXR. Esse pequeno arsenal foi apreendido pela Polícia Federal (PF) nesta quinta-feira, 10 de setembro, em nome do deputado Mário Frias (PL). Segundo a corporação, as armas não estavam no endereço registrado, o que configuraria crime de porte ilegal de armas de fogo.

Embora o arsenal irregular não tenha sido o que motivou a ida da polícia atrás de Frias — o mandado de busca e apreensão mira o que seria uma organização criminosa que usaria dinheiro de emendas parlamentares para alimentar a produtora do filme de Jair Bolsonaro, o Dark Horse —, são as armas que explicam como o deputado se aliou ao bolsonarismo e ganhou poder político.

Ex-galã da Malhação, Frias tem um currículo “artístico” antes de chegar à política: passou pela Globo, Record e RedeTV antes de ingressar no Governo Federal. A estreia na política formal aconteceu em maio de 2020, quando a também colega atriz Regina Duarte foi demitida do cargo de Secretária Especial de Cultura após uma passagem rápida e problemática, que incluiu uma entrevista que minimizou a ditadura militar brasileira.

A saída de Duarte levou Frias a assumir a Secretaria, onde pôde unir dois mundos que interessam a ele e ao bolsonarismo: armas e cultura.

O plano para a cultura de 2020 a 2022: dinheiro para grupos armamentistas

Em 2022, a Agência Pública revelou como Frias, ao lado do então secretário nacional de Incentivo e Fomento à Cultura, André Porciuncula, prometeram R$ 1 bilhão da Lei Rouanet para conteúdo pró-armas.

“Pela primeira vez, vamos colocar dinheiro da Rouanet em eventos de armas de fogo, vai ser super bacana isso”, disse Porciuncula. A estratégia era convocar grupos armamentistas a submeterem projetos que usassem a isenção de impostos da Rouanet para conseguirem aprovar projetos elogiosos à cultura do uso de armas no Brasil. Uma pauta, no mínimo, contraditória, visto que a Rouanet é historicamente criticada por bolsonaristas e já foi chamada de “desgraça” por Jair Bolsonaro.

“Estou à disposição, qualquer dúvida, enquanto estiver na secretaria — que eu devo sair agora esta semana para concorrer —, mas nós vamos deixar uma equipe totalmente alinhada ao secretário especial de cultura. Qualquer dúvida estamos de portas abertas, o Mario é CAC, nós adoramos atirar. Essa pauta é importantíssima, uma pauta de liberdade e eu peço senhores, usem (a Lei Rouanet) e não deixem de usar”, frisou Frias.

A promessa foi feita durante a Convenção Nacional Pró-armas, realizada pelo grupo presidido pelo hoje deputado Marcos Pollon (PL-MS) — que hoje aparece novamente ao lado de Frias, justamente no escândalo do Dark Horse. Pollon é um dos deputados suspeitos de enviar emendas para o filme de Jair. Segundo a PF, Pollon enviou R$ 1 milhão à Academia Nacional de Cultura (ANC), entidade presidida por Karina Ferreira da Gama, produtora do longa-metragem. Foi também durante a gestão de Frias na Secretaria que ele teria conhecido Karina Gama, segundo apurou a Folha de S. Paulo.

A promessa de Frias gerou ao menos um resultado. A Pública mostrou com exclusividade que, em novembro de 2025, foi lançado um livro sobre a história das armas no Brasil com recursos captados via Lei Rouanet. Todo o dinheiro para bancar o livro veio da Taurus, a maior fábrica de armas do Brasil e a maior fabricante de revólveres do mundo, que patrocinou R$ 336 mil e doou outros R$ 85 mil para o livro. A fabricante pode abater impostos a partir dessa produção.

Após a Secretaria de Cultura de Bolsonaro, Frias foi para o Congresso. Catapultado pela visibilidade que alcançou no governo de Bolsonaro e por mais de R$ 1,4 milhão da direção nacional do PL, ele se elegeu em 2022 deputado federal por São Paulo.

A atuação como deputado de 2023 a 2026: produção e dinheiro para filme de Bolsonaro

É durante o mandato de deputado federal que Frias se envolve no escândalo atual: os pedidos de dinheiro para o filme autobiográfico de Jair Bolsonaro e o envio de emendas parlamentares — isto é, dinheiro público — para o Instituto Conhecer Brasil, o ICB, da mesma Karina Gama, produtora do filme. Segundo a PF, foram duas emendas de Frias no valor de R$ 2 milhões. Além de Frias e Pollon, os negócios de Karina teriam recebido também emendas de Bia Kicis, no valor de R$ 150 mil.

A investigação também aponta um círculo de favores: o dinheiro das emendas sai dos cofres públicos, por meio de Frias, para o ICB de Karina; do outro lado, pessoas ligadas a outras empresas de Karina doam para a campanha de Frias em 2022.

A Pública mostrou como Karina tem acesso a gabinetes de ministérios e prefeituras e comanda empreendimentos que prometem uma revolução no empreendedorismo cristão. Dentre os principais apoiadores, está o prefeito de São Paulo, Ricardo Nunes (MDB), que abriu portas para Karina em ao menos três ocasiões, para os muitos negócios da empresária — o ICB, a ANC e o grupo lobista GT Cristão. O ICB tem um contrato de R$ 108 milhões com a Prefeitura de Nunes para a instalação de wi-fi na periferia de São Paulo.

Frias também é próximo do marido de Karine, Wemerson Marinho dos Santos. Os dois participaram de reuniões com Frias enquanto ele era secretário da Cultura de Bolsonaro. 

Além do envolvimento financeiro, Frias é o principal idealizador do filme sobre Jair. O embrião já estava na sua gestão na Secretaria de Cultura quando apoiou a criação de heróis nacionais alinhados à pauta bolsonarista para disputar os corações dos jovens — uma ideia que dialoga com o ex-mentor dos Bolsonaro, o falecido Olavo de Carvalho. “Se a gente acredita em armas, a gente precisa criar os heróis. A gente precisa entender que as narrativas, principalmente pra população mais jovem, não são a partir de estatística, coronel, não são a partir de números que a gente vai convencer essa garotada de que nós queremos um Brasil melhor, e sim a partir da cultura”, disse à época.

Como a Pública mostrou com exclusividade, o argumento inicial do filme — e um dos principais — era atacar a imprensa e associá-la a uma suposta conspiração para matar Jair Bolsonaro durante a campanha eleitoral de 2018. O texto criava a figura de uma jornalista com passado comunista, Iara, que representaria o antagonismo da imprensa contra Jair, e que se envolvia numa teoria da conspiração com Adélio Bispo, autor das facadas contra o ex-presidente em 2018.

A Pública também mostrou que Frias se ausentou da Câmara dos Deputados, dizendo que faria uma viagem em missão oficial para “participar de debates sobre implantação de escolas cívico-militares”. No mesmo período, foram realizadas gravações do filme.

Os escândalos de 2026: o envolvimento não explicado dos filhos de Jair

Todo o escândalo envolvendo o Dark Horse envolve não apenas Frias, mas também ambos os filhos de Jair Bolsonaro.

Flávio, candidato à presidência, apareceu em áudio, revelado pelo Intercept, pedindo R$ 134 milhões a Daniel Vorcaro, ex-dono do Banco Master, para bancar a produção do filme. “Irmão, estou e estarei contigo sempre, não tem meia conversa entre a gente”, disse em mensagem. Inicialmente, ele negou o envolvimento, dizendo “É mentira”. Depois, admitiu, negando qualquer ilegalidade. A apuração mostrou que Vorcaro teria pago R$ 61 milhões entre fevereiro e maio de 2025. Depois, a revista piauí mostrou que os pagamentos foram ainda maiores, com mais R$ 8,2 milhões, e aconteceram após o período que Flávio havia admitido.

Áudio obtido pelo Intercept mostrou Frias agradecendo a Vorcaro pelo apoio ao filme Dark Horse.

Já a ligação com Eduardo aparece em um rascunho de contrato com uma empresa com braços na Hungria e na Holanda, a Freeway Cam B.V., que moveria fundos para o filme, como revelou a Pública. Ele e Karina procuraram a empresa, e Eduardo assumiu o compromisso de financiar a produção mesmo com o risco do filme não sair.

Ele também aparece no escândalo através do fundo Havengate, sediado nos EUA, onde o ex-deputado vive com muitas mordomias. O advogado de imigração Paulo Calixto, próximo de Eduardo, é quem administra o fundo. Ele teria recebido cerca de R$ 69 milhões através do doleiro Antonio Carlos Freixo Júnior, o “Mineiro”, também para o filme de Jair.

A operação de hoje: as acusações contra Frias

A operação desta quinta, 10 de setembro, leva o nome de Make Up, expressão do inglês que remete a algo fabricado e também faz alusão à Go Up, empresa que produz o filme de Jair. Autorizada pelo ministro Flávio Dino — que é relator das investigações envolvendo o desvio de emendas para a produção do filme no STF (Pet 16669) —, a operação acontece em São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Ceará e Distrito Federal.

Assim como Frias, Karina também é um dos alvos. São investigados os crimes de peculato, falsidade documental, lavagem de dinheiro, organização criminosa e crimes licitatórios.

A polícia, utilizando informações do Conselho de Controle de Atividades Financeiras (Coaf), aponta envios de Frias no valor de R$ 645,4 mil à Go Up em um período de menos de 60 dias, que seriam incompatíveis com o rendimento do deputado, de cerca de R$ 44 mil mensais. O deputado está impossibilitado de deixar o país por ordem de Dino, mas ainda não há ordens de prisão.

Ao todo, o relatório aponta que a produtora movimentou R$ 19 milhões entre 10 de novembro e 30 de dezembro de 2025. O período de gravação do filme Dark Horse seria praticamente o mesmo, de 20 de outubro a 7 de dezembro de 2025.

As investigações são um desdobramento da ação Compliance Zero, que investiga os desvios no Banco Master e levou à prisão de Vorcaro em 2025. No STF, o ministro André Mendonça é o relator das investigações sobre as fraudes envolvendo o banco. É esse o inquérito que gerou o relatório envolvendo o também ministro Alexandre de Moraes, divulgado na semana passada, e que deu início à crise atual envolvendo o STF. Dino, que é relator do inquérito sobre irregularidades no orçamento de emendas do Congresso, conduz investigações envolvendo a produção do filme Dark Horse por envolverem emendas parlamentares.

Inflation in Greece rose to 3.8% in August from 3.4% in the previous month, compared with an increase of 2.9% in August 2025, Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT announced on Wednesday, September 9, 2026. According to ELSTAT, the development was largely driven by energy prices, as well as increases across a range of services. Price increases […]

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The White House ballroom project is wildly unpopular. Donald Trump doesn’t care. Ben Terris reports on Trump’s obsessive bid for architectural immortality, which is now barreling toward completion, and captures the breathtaking sycophancy required to work for this president:

“We had asphalt going into here,” Trump says, standing on the pathway leading to the residence of the White House. “Now you have the best stone.” He points at a pile of square-cut granite—the type being used to replace the asphalt walkway—and looks to his communications director, Steven Cheung, who is accompanying us on this impromptu tour of the White House grounds en route to the construction site.

“That’s some stone, huh, Steven?” he says.

“It’s incredible,” Cheung concurs.

“Look at the thickness of it,” Trump says. “Normally, you use one inch, as thin as you can. It’s the White House—I said, ‘Fuck it, what’s the best you have?’ They said, ‘We have one that’s four inches.’”

“You’re restoring glory to the White House,” Cheung says, shaking his head in apparent awe.

Lo sconto sul diesel costa ed è poco selettivo. Ma aiuti basati sul solo reddito delle persone non garantirebbero più equità. Perché, a parità di risorse disponibili, la necessità di usare l’auto e quindi consumare carburante può essere molto diversa.

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Senza conti pubblici credibili, alzare i tassi può aggravare l’inflazione. Ma assecondare il governo può compromettere la credibilità della banca centrale. La via d’uscita richiede un aggiustamento fiscale possibile e una rivendicazione d’indipendenza.

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À la Une de la presse ce mardi 8 septembre : le jour d'après en Allemagne, où la victoire, dimanche, de l'AfD en Saxe-Anhalt, est un séisme politique ; la mobilisation, en France, des pompiers pour obtenir plus de moyens après une saison estivale marquée par les incendies ; et une nouvelle tendance (odorante) chez les masculinistes.

A man named Donald Liebenberg tops eclipse-chaser-log.com with a whopping 2 hours, 27 minutes, and 41 seconds of darkness from 27 total eclipses—stats I didn’t even know people tracked until I read Rudi Zygadlo’s piece. It turns out there’s a dedicated subculture of umbraphiles logging every second of totality. Zygadlo meets a veteran British couple who’ve built their lives around these fleeting events, then travels to Spain in August 2026 to see his own first total eclipse. Adding 1 minute 38 seconds to the board earns him a place near the bottom, but judging by the awe he feels in those brief moments of darkness, he may be moving up the league yet.

There are various eclipse-chasing guests in our hotel. You can identify many of them from themed caps and T-shirts. The largest party is an alumni group from UCLA. We meet several by the pool. A couple from Minnesota, a sommelier from New York. “I was in Montreal for 2024,” says Mees from the Netherlands, treading water. “My wife is a virgin.” Everyone is friendly, but somewhat shifty when it comes to the issue of where to watch. We are too.

By 6pm on the day of, we are stationed on the infernal hillside, on a dusty path beneath pine trees and an immaculate sky. There are better vantage points but we have some degree of privacy here. We can hear others, but we can’t see them. The partial phase begins with a yodel at 7:34pm when the sun is eight degrees — or a fist’s length — above the horizon and my father-in-law produces a bottle of local white, which immediately turns warm in the glass. The nibble of the moon turns into a bite then into a crescent and I’m surprised how well my bottom-of-the-range bridge camera with a solar filter over the lens captures the partial phases. Later I’ll wish I never turned the thing on. Meara is quiet. Glowing. She is more pregnant than ever.

A la Une de la presse, ce lundi 6 juillet, le début d’une semaine décisive pour le RN avec la décision, demain, de la justice dans l’affaire des attachés parlementaires européens du FN, qui confirmera ou non l’impossibilité pour Marine Le Pen d’être candidate à la présidentielle de l’an prochain. L’ascension de l’AfD en Allemagne. Les funérailles du Guide suprême Ali Khamenei en Iran. Une nouvelle décision très controversée de la Fifa. Et un concours insolite remporté par la Belgique.

À la Une de la presse, jeudi : les tensions entre l’Allemagne et la Russie, qui menace de répondre aux sanctions allemandes par un "coup direct". Des tensions qui inquiètent les autres pays européens, également dans le viseur de Moscou ; une très mauvaise nouvelle à propos du réchauffement climatique ; mais une bonne pour les kakapos de Nouvelle-Zélande.

As spades went into the ground to signal the start of construction of the new Building 47 at Lockheed Martin’s Munitions Production Center in Troy, Alabama, it marked a significant development in accelerating production of the company’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptor, better known as THAAD. The expansion of factory space in Troy is a key element of the company’s $8-9-billion commitment to expand its munitions production footprint across the United States.

The Department of War’s Acquisition Transformation Strategy is part of a long-term plan that signals clear demand for critical munitions and it enables industry to confidently invest in facilities and workforce development, along with supply chain expansion and advanced manufacturing capabilities. In addition to enlarging the facility in Troy, Lockheed Martin is also growing its plant in Camden, Arkansas, which is another site that’s vital for building more munitions at a faster pace.

“My job is to interface and collaborate with the Department of War in achieving the call to action to produce these critical munitions, not only at speed but also at scale, multiplying the current production rates by two, three, or even four times the current rates,” Dan Nimblett, Lockheed Martin’s vice president for Munitions Acceleration Integration told TWZ on the ground in Troy during the groundbreaking event.

“Fundamentally what’s occurred changes how acquisition works [with] long term demand agreements. These long term procurement agreements enable Lockheed Martin and our supply base to make the necessary investments with confidence of the future demand. This allows us to make the investments not only in our people and our facilities, but in the technology necessary to build [these munitions] at a scale and a speed that’s relevant to the threat today,” explained Nimblett.

Lockheed Martin was the first company in the U.S. defense industry to announce a framework agreement with the DoW for munitions acceleration of high-demand missiles – initially tripling production capacity of the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptor, followed by a second agreement to quadruple the production capacity of advanced THAAD interceptors. These two defensive missiles are cornerstones of a layered air and missile defense system, and both have been integrated together via Joint All-Domain Operations, including with the U.S. Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS).

In response to the DoW’s call to action, the company has already invested more than $2 billion in its production facilities and in the related tooling, its key suppliers, and its workforce in order to accelerate production rates.

Lockheed Martin plans to effectively double the factory footprint in Troy and dramatically increase the workforce. “We’re going to increase that [workforce] by drawing in college students, high school students, veterans, everybody’s welcome,” explains Jason Reynolds, vice president and general manager for integrated air and missile defense. “When they come to Lockheed Martin, they receive training, they get opportunity, and because these programs are on a ramp and in production in such high demand, this is where you come to start your career and you [can] work here for a long time.”

Lockheed Martin currently employs around 1,100 workers at its Camden site, but this is also growing. The Camden training center is seen as being critical in providing the swift increase in skilled operators needed to support this acceleration. “We work closely with the state of Arkansas as well on looking at what else we can do in the community and the infrastructure in that community to support people moving, hopefully into Camden as we ramp up,” says Reynolds.

“People here [in Troy] really know their work matters. It’s meaningful for both the community as well as for our national defense. So, we’re really proud of our employees and we’re on a growth trajectory. We’re hiring and we want as many qualified people to come join our team as possible.”

The Camden site is also accelerating its work on the long-range Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), which is also set to quadruple production over the next few years. Reynolds added that building missiles faster using automation and advanced manufacturing technologies, plus increasing the production line capacity, are some of the vital means for success.

“PAC-3 MSE and THAAD are the most capable air defense interceptors on the planet. They’re in extreme demand [and] we’re doing everything possible,” says Reynolds. “With PAC-3, we have been doubling that production over the last four years and now, like I said, we’re going to triple it. We’re working very carefully with our suppliers, with the U.S. government and with our partners and allies all around the world to get all the parts in and get them into factories like you see behind us today to assemble them and get them out to the warfighter as quickly as possible.”

Another way Lockheed Martin is accelerating the delivery of advanced air defense capabilities is the through the introduction this summer of the PAC-3 Adapted Capability Effector, or PAC-3 ACE. This new missile leverages the PAC-3 fire-control system and provides for full integration with the Patriot weapon suite.

The main differentiator of PAC-3 ACE is that it would be produced at less than half the unit cost of MSE and first flight could occur within 18 months. A core part of the rapid fielding strategy is an international, joint-development model. Lockheed Martin is partnering with both American and European industry, sharing production lines, supply chains and expertise.

Lockheed Martin says PAC-3  ACE provides a “cost-effective, multi-threat solution.” The interceptor is engineered to engage a broad spectrum of air-breathing threats, cruise missiles, and both short and medium-range ballistic missiles. By offering a low-cost “kill” per-engagement, it is designed to address the current climate that demands deeper ammunition reserves without compromising on performance.

The keys to munitions acceleration

This year, Lockheed Martin has made significant progress in a series of production acceleration projects for munitions programs under its Missiles and Fire Control division. “I was supposed to retire last year. I’m here because this is the most exciting time in the 30 years I’ve been in this industry,” says Dan Nimblett. “These long-term agreements provide us the certainty to enable us to make these investments.”

“What recent conflicts have demonstrated is that Lockheed Martin and the American defense industrial base never lost the technological edge. The technology and the capability has always been there – we have the best systems in the world. We’ve proven that through real world performance.”

Nimblett explained that Lockheed Martin’s supply chain is following suit, and that they are all now investing in similar ways to ensure they meet the demand signals. “We’re evaluating how we produce and increase additive manufacturing and robotics. We’re also looking at how we develop, which I think is a fundamental part of getting capability into the warfighters’ hands at a speed and scale that’s relevant to the threat.”

Having received Milestone C approval from the U.S. Army in July 2025, PrSM manufacturing has relied on a high level of automation. PrSM was engineered from the start for automated, robot-driven production – automating tasks once done by hand – and that early-stage streamlining is paying dividends as Lockheed Martin seeks to accelerate output.

“We have a lot of robotics built into our munitions production,” explains Gaylia Campbell, vice president, Tactical Missiles. “A lot of times we use robotics to help increase the safety of the assembly, like an explosive charge that has to be integrated into a munition, and we have a robotic arm that places that and tests the placement. We also robotically paint and coat [PrSM]. So, we have a lot of robotics already in Camden and that’s really going to help us with this ramp-up in production – the fact that so much of it is [already] automated.”

Campbell emphasizes that PrSM entered production with a mindset of acceleration. “We got PrSM through preliminary and critical design reviews, and into first flight in times roughly half of what it would normally have taken us. We’ve been amazingly successful on all these flights. Those early [test] flights went off one after the other during the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when there were a lot of challenges for all of us in our daily lives, and yet we were able to continue to fly and prove the operational performance.”

Lockheed Martin is reshaping the munitions supply chain with an unprecedented slate of manufacturing initiatives that pull together new facilities, strategic partnerships, and workforce development. The company is also expanding a number of its other production facilities, such as a $60-million investment in its complex in Archbald, Pennsylvania, that will add 700 jobs in support of high‑priority programs including PrSM, THAAD, PAC‑3, and Apache sensors. In Orlando, Florida, three legacy paint bays have been merged into a high‑performance shop that can retool a work cell in hours rather than weeks, while Ocala’s new Progressive Work Smart Assembly Line has cut seeker and mission control unit build times by roughly 50 percent.

A partnership with General Motors will bring high‑rate commercial manufacturing expertise into Lockheed Martin’s production processes, and the new Rapid Fielding Center in Grand Prairie, Texas, is tasked to reduce traditional manufacturing development timelines. What once took years of design, testing and tooling is aimed to be prototyped, fabricated and validated in a matter of months.

Echoing endorsement of the DoW’s initiative, Campbell underscores that knowing what the demand signal will be is a critical differentiator when it comes to production ramp-up. “We can plan for some of those really critical rare earth minerals that we need, the batteries for example in our munitions, we need certain rare earth minerals for that. We need to know the total demand signal and that means we can negotiate with the suppliers and guarantee that we have access. That can really help us accelerate.”

To support the wider munitions efforts Lockheed Martin is also investing in solid rocket motor development and production, as well as lower-tier parts that go into solid rocket motors. “We’re working with different suppliers to develop new sources of supply for solid rocket motors,” says Campbell. “We’re investigating heavily right now in designing and prototyping several motors that we plan to test and take to production, and that really will develop a whole new supply chain and will really be critical for all munitions production.”

Having a five-year contract instead of annual contracts allows the manufacturer to have far more buying power to secure sub-components for a far better price point. “I can go and invest. Invest in more capacity, invest in my supplier’s capacity,” explains Campbell.

“Production is all about velocity. Keeping the line moving and not having to stop because we don’t have a part. Being able to order bigger quantities of things up front is really huge when it comes to acceleration.”

Contact the author: Jamie.Hunter@teamrecurrent.io

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In a beautiful and vivid essay on home, time, and family, Diane Roberts reflects on the house that her parents built, and their family’s land in Leon County, Florida, to which she feels deeply connected. I especially love Roberts’s thoughts on a home versus a house—the latter is composed of construction materials, but “home implies a complex neural network of family association and feeling, layers of experience, a shared past.” Despite the tragedies the home holds, it is ultimately a place of memory and meaning.

Home and time are as tangled as the skunk vine and Confederate jasmine choking my backyard fence. I suppose that’s to be expected. My house holds our history and the indispensable relics of former houses, objects cherished by the now-dead: the tiny rocking chair my grandfather made for my mother when she was three; the 1960 TR3 in the barn my brother never quite got around to fixing; the two old rosebushes dug up from the Washington County farm, replanted at Great-Aunt Rilla’s house in Chipley, then dug up again and transported to our front yard. The house didn’t simply belong to us, it was us—our mother, our father, Brad, and me.

The world’s most sensitive dark matter observatory, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, has detected a particle interaction that cannot be explained by conventional background radiation models, a finding that, although still far from being confirmed as a definitive discovery, has sparked cautious optimism in the international scientific community. The event, recorded nearly a mile underground at […]

Noreen said the tragedy has left her deeply traumatized.

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Scientists find evidence that microscopic metal debris can reach the brain, while its long-term effects remain unclear.

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The missile interceptions came amid heightened regional tensions involving Iran and the United States.

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to sign long-delayed agreements with five oil refineries, unlocking more than $6 billion in planned upgrades to modernize aging plants and cut reliance on fuel imports, officials said. But industry warnings that changes to the financial framework could derail the projects overshadowed the announcement. The agreements with Pak-Arab Refinery Ltd., Pakistan ... Read more

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