‘Insane’: Four Texas teens arrested for kidnapping, torturing classmate for talking to one of their girlfriends

Four Texas teenagers have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and torturing a former high school classmate over a dispute involving one of the suspects’ girlfriends.Jose Rojas-Alvarado, Oscar Armando Santiago-Martinez, Angel Lemus-Perez, and Carlos Roberto Oliva-Villeda, all 17, face charges of aggravated kidnapping with a deadly weapon, according to arrest affidavits from the Travis County Sheriff’s…

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Mitochondrial Eve lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago; her unbroken maternal lineage connects every living human today, but she was neither the first woman nor the only woman of her time |

Image: Left/ncse/Right/Pumpkin Person Every person alive today carries a mitochondrial genome that came from their mother, who received it from hers, and so on back through hundreds of thousands of years. Follow that chain far enough, and every line meets in one woman who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. Scientists call her Mitochondrial…

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NASA sent 10 million cinnamon basil seeds into orbit aboard Endeavour in 2007; the project brought space-flown seeds into classrooms and helped nearly 1 million students test plant-growing designs

The seeds were being carried by teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, who was finally making her long-awaited journey into space after a 22-year wait A seed does not look like much. Tucked into a packet, it is barely noticeable, carrying the promise of a plant in a form that seems almost impossibly small. But in 2007, millions…

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Built in 1948, Mud Mountain Dam gets a $112 million fish passage project to help salmon migrate | World News

When Mud Mountain Dam was completed in 1948 along Washington State’s White River, its purpose was straightforward. The earthen structure was built to reduce flooding across downstream communities, protecting homes, businesses and farmland from damaging seasonal flows. Fish passage existed from the beginning, but it reflected the engineering standards of another era. As salmon populations…

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After her fiance’s medical emergency ended their plans to elope in Northern Ireland, Bridget Devaney posted an invite online; 11 women she had never met joined her for a week, from the Giant’s Causeway to the Dark Hedges

Some of the destinations had originally been part of the trip she planned to take with her fiance (Instagram/Bridget) A woman whose plans to elope in Northern Ireland ended after her fiance suffered a medical emergency invited 11 women she had never met to join her on the trip instead. Bridget Devaney, who is based…

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NIA arrests 13 in JMB-linked terror conspiracy case after searches across 3 states | India News

In a significant crackdown, the National Investigation Agency has detained 13 suspects in Assam, West Bengal, and Kerala associated with the terrorist group Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested 13 persons in the wake of searches conducted at 16 locations across Assam, West Bengal and Kerala…

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Plugging gap: Why 67,000 EV charging points aren’t enough for India’s electric dreams | India News

According to a landmark study by Rubix Data Sciences released in September 2026, citing baseline projections from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India will need 13.2 lakh EV charging points by 2030 to support the growing number of electric vehicles. When Siddharth Das, a Delhi-NCR based working professional and long-time motor enthusiast, traded in…

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Karan Johar drops his phone in front of Meryl Streep: Jokes ‘I’ll never change it now’ |

Famed director Karan Johar’s encounter with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway during their Tokyo promo tour for ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ has gone viral. Johar dropped his phone, and Streep, noticing they shared the same model, prompted a delighted Johar to humorously vow he’d “never change it now. Famed director Karan Johar has been…

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Moon: Scientists develop a new way to detect hidden water ice on the Moon using seismic waves |

Representative Image of astronauts investigating potential water ice reserves on the Moon (AI-generated image) Beneath the permanently shadowed craters near the Moon’s south pole, scientists believe significant deposits of water ice may be buried out of reach of the instruments currently used to search for it from orbit. A new study led by researchers at…

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