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SpaceX Starship: Everything you've ever wondered but were afraid to ask

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket has the potential to transform the commercial space economy, ensure America’s position as the global leaders in the space race, and put humans on Mars for the first time. This is becoming much more likely as the Starship test program accelerates and the company demonstrates more and more of the rocket’s powerful capabilities. For comparison, the company's much-used Falcon 9 is 229 feet tall, and the Saturn V that brought Apollo missions to the moon was 363 feet
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In-state four-star Isaiah Sealy signs with Arkansas

Arkansas earned its third signature in the 2025 class Saturday as in-state four-star Isaiah Sealy signed with the Razorbacks, the UA announced via press release. The No. 88 overall player in the 2025 class from just up the road in Springdale chose the Razorbacks over Boston College, Cal, and Ole Miss. Sealy was re-offered by the new head coach John Calipari and his coaching staff over the summer during an impressive stretch on the EYBL Circuit and ultimately in the Peach Jam Invitational.
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Social media reacts to Arkansas' 20-10 loss to Texas

Arkansas DBs Doneiko Slaughter (left), Miguel Mitchell (middle) and Larry Worth III (right). Braeden Botts On a brisk afternoon in Fayetteville, the Arkansas Razorbacks (5-5, 3-4 SEC) were defeated 20-10 by the No.
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Everything Nate Oats said after No. 2 Alabama loss to No. 13 Purdue

Nov 15, 2024; West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nate Oats reacts to points being scored during the second half against the Purdue Boilermakers at Mackey Arena. | Photo: Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images Alabama basketball lost for the first time this season, falling 87-78 to a strong Purdue side Friday night.
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West Virginia on the wrong side of a blowout loss to Pitt on Friday

If Friday served as a test for how West Virginia's season might go, they would have come nowhere close to passing the test or the class that is the 2024-2025 season. The Mountaineers headed up north to face rival Pitt in the 191st Backyard Brawl. The Mountaineers would end up on the wrong end of a 86-62 loss to Pitt, giving them their first loss of the season.
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Purdue's bench is here

Purdue's first three games of the season were about its star trio with Fletcher Loyer, Trey Kaufman-Renn, and Braden Smith leading the way through a 3-0 start. Purdue's fourth win of the season, an 87-78 win over #2 Alabama, was about announcing they aren't alone. Purdue's win, its 39th straight non-conference regular season victory, featured a true freshman making his first three pointer, another true freshman going on a 9-0 run in the second half, a sophomore continuing to evolve as a defend
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Arkansas football availability report - Texas week

The final availability report for Arkansas football's (5-4, 3-3 SEC) Week 12 matchup against the No. 3 Texas Longhorns (8-1, 4-1 SEC) was released by the Southeastern Conference on Saturday.Introduced over the offseason, availability reports will be updated daily ahead of Arkansas' SEC-opener Saturday.
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Everything Dusty May said after Michigan's 76-64 win over TCU

Michigan turned the ball over 21 times on Friday night, but the Wolverines were able to win and cover the spread against a shorthanded TCU squad. Yeah, there were several against Wake Forest that we just didn't go with enough or want to.
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The three-pointer: Takeaways from No. 2 Alabama's loss to No. 13 Purdue

Alabama basketball was unable to take control of the tempo in its first road test of the season. The Crimson Tide hung tough against a physical Boilermakers side but never found a consistent scoring pulse in its 87-78 loss. Here are three takeaways from Alabama's first loss of the season.
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How to Watch, Game Preview: Arkansas vs. No. 3 Texas

The Arkansas Razorbacks (5-4, 3-3 SEC) are set to host the No. 3 Texas Longhorns (8-1, 4-1 SEC) on Saturday at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville. This game will mark the third time this season Arkansas has played host to a top-10 team in Fayetteville.
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TikTok parent ByteDance reportedly values itself at $300 billion

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, valued itself at $300 billion in a recent share buyback offer, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. TikTok’s prospects in the United States may be looking up following the election of Donald Trump to his second term as US president. In April, President Joe Biden signed a bill that would ban TikTok from the United States if ByteDance failed to sell the short-form video app.
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Matt Gaetz ‘Pull Out’ Remark Derails MSNBC: ‘I Just Threw Up’

Stephanie Ruhle was saved by an ad break when a segment about Matt Gaetz’s attorney general nomination went off the rails in fits of laughter. President-elect Donald Trump announced Gaetz as his attorney general pick on Wednesday, despite an investigation into Gaetz’s alleged drug-use and sex scandal with an underaged girl. In light of the allegations, a comment about “pulling out” quickly derailed Friday’s 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle.
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Kamala Harris raised $1 billion-plus in defeat. She's still sending persistent appeals to donors

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party's prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Donald Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election. Democrats are sending persistent appeals to Harris supporters without expressly asking them to cover any potential debts, enticing would-be donors instead with other matters: the Republican president-elect's picks for his upcoming administration and a handful of pending congressional c
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Trump taps Wright as energy secretary, as Musk suggests public should weigh in on Treasury pick

President-elect Donald Trump made his selection for energy secretary on Saturday, even as a key ally, billionaire Elon Musk, called for more direct public input into the decision-making process for another top post: the head of the Treasury Department. Trump picked Chris Wright, CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, as energy secretary. Wright is a vocal advocate of oil and gas development, including fracking, a key pillar of Trump’s quest to achieve U.S. “energy dominance” in the global market.
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An Indian family froze to death crossing the Canada-US border, a perilous trip becoming more common

On the last night of their lives, Jagdish Patel, his wife and their two young children tried to slip into the U.S. across a near-empty stretch of the Canadian border. Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that night in January 2022 as the family from India set out on foot to meet a waiting van. Coordinating things in Canada, federal prosecutors say, was Harshkumar Patel, an experienced smuggler nicknamed “Dirty Harry.”
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Jim Carrey's Sister Rita Carrey Dead

Jim Carrey's older sister Rita Carrey died on Nov. 14, her husband Alex confirmed, noting that she was surrounded by family and friends and "passed away peacefully and quietly."
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After Whoopi Goldberg criticizes NYC bakery, customers pour in

GREAT KILLS, Staten Island (PIX11) — Whoopi Goldberg claimed that a historic bakery on Staten Island wouldn’t fill a dessert request that she’d made because the business didn’t like her politics. The owner of the bakery, Holtermann’s, said that a major maintenance issue at the business had prevented it from filling any large orders, like Goldberg’s, […]
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Trump picks campaign aide Karoline Leavitt for White House press secretary

President-elect Donald Trump reached into his inner circle on Friday and chose his transition spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, as his White House press secretary, putting a 27-year-old firebrand in position to aggressively defend him. Leavitt has endeared herself to Trump by her ardent defense of him in news interviews and her take-no-prisoners style, Trump advisers said. The job of the White House press secretary typically is to help inform the American people about presidential activities wit
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Progressive fault lines emerge after Harris’s loss

Progressives are at odds with one another over how to hone their message to voters after losing the White House again to President-elect Trump. There’s little disagreement that things need to change. Democrats’ most recent electoral strategy has been rendered ineffective, delivering Trump back to Washington with his party’s full control of Congress. But there’s…
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