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Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms.

This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet’s atmosphere by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

But the team and independent astronomers stress that more data is needed to confirm these results.

The lead researcher, Prof Nikku Madhusudhan, told me at his lab at Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy that he hopes to obtain the clinching evidence soon.

“This is the strongest evidence yet there is possibly life out there. I can realistically say that we can confirm this signal within one to two years.”

Astronomers say they have detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed scepticism. https://t.co/oQGhbWweHT pic.twitter.com/POWVDPW9Qj

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 17, 2025

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The X Factor star Danny Dearden has died at the age of 34, with his manager confirming the news. 

In a post on Instagram, music manager Denise Beighton confirmed that Dearden, who competed in the 11th season of the ITV reality show, had sadly passed away, saying she was “heartbroken” by the news.

A cause of death is yet to be disclosed.

Dearden made it to the Judge’s House stage of the series in 2014, where he competed against Jake Quickenden, Andrea Faustini, Jack Walton, Jordan Morris and Paul Akister by performing a rendition of Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Beautiful Disaster’.

X Factor star Danny Dearden dies, aged 34 https://t.co/kDJvLJSMbw

— Digital Spy (@digitalspy) April 16, 2025

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The former president has slammed conservatives while claiming that the US is more divided than ever

Former US President Joe Biden has accused Donald Trump’s supporters of having “no hearts,” while claiming that America has “never been this divided.”Biden himself was frequently accused by conservatives of demonizing his political opponents and inciting divisions during his four years in office.    

Biden hit out at his successor on Tuesday in his first public speech since leaving the White House, alleging that Trump has inflicted a “breathtaking” amount of damage on federal programs through extensive cuts.

“They’ve taken a hatchet in Social Security, pushing additional 7,000 employees, 7,000 out the door in that time, including the most seasoned career officials. Now they’re getting ready to push something more out the door,” Biden stated. 

The former president, who served between 2020 and 2024, went on to demean Trump’s supporters, arguing that the US has “never been this divided.”

“Granted, it’s just 30%, but it’s a 30% that has no heart,” Biden said, apparently referring to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll in which almost a third of respondents approved of Trump’s attempts to address the high cost of living.

Biden’s remarks have drawn criticism from conservatives, who alleged that the Democratic Party and the former president’s policies were one of the main contributing factors to divisions in American society.

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Joe Biden says that MAGA has “no heart”..

Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/C5FvlioRcg

— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) April 15, 2025

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The White House said China is now facing up to a 245 percent tariff on imports to the U.S. “as a result of its retaliatory actions,” another escalation in a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

The top potential tariff is higher than the previously stated 145 percent and was referenced in a fact sheet published by the White House late on Tuesday.

It accompanied an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that launched an investigation into the “national security risks posed by U.S. reliance on imported processed critical minerals and their derivative products.”

Newsweek has contacted the White House press office by email outside of normal business hours for comment.

The U.S.-China trade war is rattling global markets, which fear the economic fallout of the conflict and others that Trump has launched against America’s trading partners.

Cutting off Chinese imports complicates American supply chains, increasing costs and forcing businesses to source from elsewhere. Consumers also face higher prices. Trump’s strategy is to use tariffs to pull more manufacturing investment into the U.S.

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The White House announces that China is now facing a 245% tariff as a result of its retaliatory actions against the U.S.

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 16, 2025

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An exercise by the UN agency earlier this month simulated an outbreak of a “fictional” virus spreading across the world

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently rehearsed a scenario in which an ancient virus lying dormant in the remains of a woolly mammoth caused a deadly global outbreak of “mammothpox,” The Telegraph has reported, citing documents about the exercise it had obtained. 

The press release by the global health authority stated that earlier this month more than 15 countries took part in Exercise Polaris, which “simulated an outbreak of a fictional virus spreading across the world,” aiming to test readiness for a new pandemic. 

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned earlier this month that a new pandemic “could happen in 20 years or more, or it could happen tomorrow,” describing it as an “epidemiological certainty.” 

The exercise reportedly simulated an outbreak of “Mammothpox,” a fictional virus similar to smallpox, a disease with a 30% mortality rate that was eradicated in 1980, and mpox, a dangerous variant of which is currently surging across central Africa.

According to the scenario, the virus was released after a team of scientists and documentary filmmakers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the Arctic. Within weeks, intensive care units across the world were “overwhelmed” and health systems were struggling to cope. 

Although the countries involved in the exercise were able to contain the fictional virus, a real outbreak would prove much more complicated, the WHO acknowledged.

WHO tests pandemic response across 15 countries with simulated Arctic 'mammothpox' outbreak as ICUs struggle to copehttps://t.co/6Dt4dnN4mV

— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 15, 2025

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the witness stand Monday to defend his company against accusations by the Federal Trade Commission that it bought competing social media companies to dominate the market with a monopoly.

It was the first of what is expected to be two days of testimony for Zuckerberg, who will seek to explain two of his company’s most important acquisitions, Instagram and WhatsApp.

And although Zuckerberg is no stranger to defending his company, the stakes in this case may be higher than ever before. If the FTC wins, Meta could be forced to break itself apart and spin off WhatsApp and Instagram, which would upend the company’s core digital advertising business and reshape the broader social media ecosystem.

Meta relies on the 3.3 billion daily users it claims across its platforms as one of the core selling points of its ad business, which last year alone raked in more than $160 billion in revenue.

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The flight will last about 10 minutes — carrying the group more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) into the sky and offering a few minutes of weightlessness before they descend.

But at what point during the flight will singer Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and their fellow passengers reach “space”?

Is it when they look outside their window and the blue glow of the sky fades to black? Is it when they reach an altitude at which satellites can orbit? Or is it when the atmosphere grows so thin that it no longer plays a defining role in the flight physics?

In the spaceflight community, there is no hard-and-fast definition.

Space can be defined in several ways, and the usefulness of the criteria for determining where it starts can depend on the scenario. That’s why various organizations around the world use different altitudes to mark that invisible threshold for recordkeeping purposes.

Update:

All six passengers on today’s flight — Gayle King, Katy Perry, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, Lauren Sánchez and Kerianne Flynn — have strapped into their 3.8-meter (12.5-foot) wide New Shepard capsule.

The team is now going through communications checks with mission control.

Mission controllers just gave the final green light for liftoff by confirming engineers are getting healthy data back from the rocket. The mission is poised to lift off in less than 4 minutes.

A puff of dust just kicked up in the West Texas desert as the New Shepard capsule carrying all six passengers made a safe touchdown.

“Welcome back to Earth,” mission controllers said over the communications loop.

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WITH TRUMP — SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE — JUST SHOOK BIG PHARMA TO ITS CORE

With RFK Jr sitting just feet away… President Trump looked calmly across the room — and dropped the line that could signal the end of an era:

“September is not going to be a good month for Pfizer and Moderna.”

This wasn’t a slip. This was a WARNING.

WHAT THIS MEANS:

→ The vaccine narrative is collapsing.

→ The lies are catching up.

→ The American people are waking up. Pfizer & Moderna? Built their empires on mandates, media control & censorship. But that storm is breaking. With Trump in the White House… With RFK in the room… With the world watching… Big Pharma should be very nervous. SEPTEMBER IS COMING.

Accountability.

Exposure.

Justice. The Vaccine Cartel had their run. Now the TRUTH gets its turn.

🚨 TRUMP — SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE — JUST SHOOK BIG PHARMA TO ITS CORE 🚨

With RFK Jr sitting just feet away…

President Trump looked calmly across the room — and dropped the line that could signal the end of an era:

💥 “September is not going to be a good month for Pfizer… pic.twitter.com/pNE8NcMziZ

— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) April 12, 2025

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Fauci Hit with Criminal Referrals in 7 States Over ‘Vaccine’ Deaths https://t.co/bTNhOABACc

— Slay News (@Slay_News_) April 11, 2025

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Anthony Fauci called RFK Jr. a liar for stating that not one of the 72 vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested*.

In response, RFK Jr. took legal action, and after a year of delays, Fauci’s lawyers conceded that RFK Jr. had been correct.

“There’s no downstream liability, there’s no front-end safety testing… and there’s no marketing and advertising costs, because the federal government is ordering 78 million school kids to take that vaccine every year.”

Anthony Fauci called RFK Jr. a liar for stating that not one of the 72 vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested*.

In response, RFK Jr. took legal action, and after a year of delays, Fauci's lawyers conceded that RFK Jr. had been correct.

"There's no… pic.twitter.com/43EA4QTRa7

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) November 27, 2024

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