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there's no disputing a ~100-foot-deep (~30-m), 226-foot-wide (69-m) pit of relentless fiery fury that's been burning for around 50 years in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan

The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus has long been an elite training ground for young singers. Getting in requires grit, personality and a soaring voice.

"The WMF would like to buy you books." —Toadspike's summary of this pilot project

The National Bolshevik Party (Russian: Национал-большевистская партия, НБП, romanized: Natsional-bolshevistskaya partiya, NBP) operated from 1993 to 2007 as a Russian political party with a political program of National Bolshevism. The NBP became a prominent member of The Other Russia coalition of opposition parties. Its members are known as Nazbols (Russian: нацболы). There have been smaller NBP groups in other countries. Its official publication, the newspaper Limonka, derived its name from the party leader's surname and from the idiomatic Russian word for a grenade. The main editor of Limonka was for many years, Aleksey Volynets. Russian courts banned the organization and it never officially registered as a political party. In 2010, its leader Eduard Limonov founded a new political...

The night included free meals, a scavenger hunt, a DJ and even a professional makeup artist for party-goers who wanted to add some sparkle to their outfits.

A boat carrying 15 kids and their teacher capsized in the river, leaving no survivors. The tragedy shook Saji Valassery, a humble furniture shop owner, to his core. [...] Every morning at 5:30 AM, a quiet revolution unfolds on a Kerala riverbank. Led by one man, this floating classroom has taught over 10,000 people to swim—for free. More than a skill, it’s a lifeline, a community, and a powerful reminder that courage can be contagious.

Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

Includes awesome documentation and is public domain.

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Thanks to a Republican vote to stop California from setting its own auto emissions, Democrats can challenge virtually any Trump administration action, and eat up time on the Senate floor.

[...] at just 29 weeks and were the first to benefit from a specially designed co-sleeping cot at the neonatal unit at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. [...] Little Macie was born weighing 2lbs and her brother Marcus just 1lb 3oz, but thanks to round the clock care of dedicated staff tasked with looking after them, the twins amazingly pulled through.

or, the exhaustion of a blind user