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Christmas Entry: Japanese Moon Lander Enters Moon Orbit
A Japanese moon lander has successfully entered the moon’s orbit, a huge milestone for the country’s first-ever moon mission.
A Japanese moon lander has successfully entered the moon’s orbit, a huge milestone for the country’s first-ever moon mission.
US President Joe Biden has signed a record defense policy bill of $886 billion.
Estonia has once again started culling its wolf population amid concerns that the practice will reduce the population.
Hamburg Airport in Germany remained closed on Sunday after an unexpected hostage situation.
Elon Musk has predicted that the artificial intelligence revolution will end human creativity.
The Chinese government has rejected the latest wave of US restrictions on advanced chip exports. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has accused the US of violating the principles of free and fair economic competition.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy was ousted in a historic vote by hardliners from his own party. The hardline republicans ousted the speaker by voting with the democrats as they were furious at the speaker’s support for more aid to Ukraine.
All 19 of the co-defendants of former President Donald Trump surrendered at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. The Illinois-based pastor Stephen Lee, charged with five state crimes, became the last co-defendant to have surrendered.
Japan remembered the victims that perished at the hands of US nuclear weapons in 1945. The 78th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation was held in the Japanese city of Nagasaki where the Mayor Shiro Suzuki, a nuclear bomb survivor himself, called on the world to abandon nuclear weapons.
X, previously known as twitter, has sued a non-profit organization for allegedly scrapping flawed data from the platform. Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against an anti-hate speech organization, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), alleging that their actions caused the social media app to lose substantial revenue, amounting to tens of millions of dollars, as advertisers suspended their spending on the platform.
Scientists said they can’t rule out the fact that an alien spaceship could have caused the mysterious spiky protrusions found on Mars. Images captured by NASA’s Curiosity Rover showed formations sticking out from the surface of the rocks in the Gale Crater, with at least six rocks displaying unusual features.
Oceangate, the company who owned the Titan exploratory submarine, has suspended all of its operations. The company’s website posted a statement saying it has suspended all of its explorations and commercial operations. It couldn’t not have been verified why it took so long for the company to publicly denounce all operations.