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Colin Farrell takes decision to move son with rare genetic disorder into care facility

Colin Farrell takes decision to move son with rare genetic disorder into care facility

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Colin Farrell has said he will put his son James, who has Angelman syndrome, into a long-term care facility. The Oscar-nominated star of The Banshees of Inisherin, who recently won a Golden Globe for HBO series The Penguin, has previously opened up about his 21-year-old son’s diagnosis. Angelman syndrome is a rare disorder that affects the nervous system and causes developmental delays amongst other issues. Last year, Farrell launched a foundation to provide support for people and families with intellectual disabilities in honour of James. Now. he’s revealed that he and his ex-partner Kim Bordenave have come to the “tricky” decision to put their son into a facility due to fears he would be left alone if anything should happen to them. “It’s tricky …

What Are Rare Earth Metals, the Exports Halted by China?

What Are Rare Earth Metals, the Exports Halted by China?

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For years, the Chinese government has worked to control the export of rare earths, a group of metals used in an array of products, as common as semiconductors and lights. Now, in its trade war with the United States, China is moving to limit the market for these metals even further, which could have disastrous consequences for American manufacturing and military power. So, what exactly are these metals, and why are they so important? What are rare earths? There are 17 types of metals known as rare earths, which span the periodic table and are crucial to industries like technology, energy and transportation. With names like terbium, praseodymium and dysprosium, the metals are important ingredients for some of the most advanced technologies. Rare earths can be sorted into two kinds: heavy and light. Heavy rare earths have a greater atomic weight and are typically more rare, meaning they sell in smaller quantities and are prone to shortages. Light metals, by contrast, have a lesser atomic weight. The two most important are neodymium and praseodymium, which …

How Kyiv’s effort to lure Trump with rare earths backfired – POLITICO

How Kyiv’s effort to lure Trump with rare earths backfired – POLITICO

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Hiding underground The question lurking over the talks is how much mineral wealth Ukraine actually has. The country has about 5 percent of the world’s reserves of rare earths, according to the U.N. That includes lithium, beryllium, niobium, tantalum, titanium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and phosphate, elements crucial for the energy, tech and defense sectors, said Alla Vasylenko, senior researcher with the Institute of Geology Studies of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.    “Most of them were discovered in the 1960s-1980s. Back then, researchers were not paying attention to issues that are currently very important: the intended purpose of the lands and the form of ownership, environmental, sanitary and other restrictions for mining, as well as public opinion,” Vasylenko said. “Yet the reserves were approved according to the Soviet system, which foreign investors do not understand. So, theoretically, we can claim that Ukraine has the biggest lithium reserves in Europe, but to understand their economic potential, we need to conduct additional studies of our deposits first.” And getting that wealth out of the ground …

Astronomers find spiraling stars heading towards a rare cosmic explosion

Astronomers find spiraling stars heading towards a rare cosmic explosion

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 There is a “doomed pair of spiraling stars” swirling only 150 light-years away from Earth–practically our neighbor in space terms. The stars in this rare high mass and compact binary star system are on a collision course with one another that should result in a special kind of supernova. Astronomers expect them to explode as a type 1a supernova that will one day shine 10 times brighter than our moon. The discovery is detailed in a study published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy. A simulation of a double white dwarf binary star system. CREDIT: Dr. Ruediger Pakmor (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik). What are type 1a supernovae? In space, a supernova is the explosion of a star. They result in a brilliant burst of energy and light and can be so luminous that they briefly outshine galaxies. Type 1a supernovae are a special type of cosmic explosion. They occur when a white dwarf–the dense remnant core of a star–takes in too much mass. The former star then can’t withstand …

Watch Jazz ‘Hot’, the Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt

Watch Jazz ‘Hot’, the Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt

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Here’s a remark­able short film of the great jazz gui­tarist Djan­go Rein­hardt, vio­lin­ist Stéphane Grap­pel­li and their band the Quin­tette du Hot Club de France per­form­ing on a movie set in 1938. The film was hasti­ly orga­nized by the band’s British agent Lew Grade as a way to intro­duce the band’s unique style of gui­tar- and vio­lin-based jazz to the British pub­lic before their first UK tour. As Michael Dreg­ni writes in Gyp­sy Jazz: In Search of Djan­go Rein­hardt and the Soul of Gyp­sy Swing: The Quin­tette was unknown to the British pub­lic, and there was no telling how their new music would res­onate. So, Grade sought to edu­cate his audi­ence. He hired a movie crew to film a six-minute-plus pro­mo­tion­al short enti­tled Jazz “Hot” to be shown in British the­aters pro­vid­ing a les­son in jazz appre­ci­a­tion to warm up the crowds. That would explain the didac­tic tone of the first two and a half min­utes of the film, which plods along as a reme­di­al les­son on the nature of jazz. It opens with an …

A Rare Moment of Bipartisan Disbelief

A Rare Moment of Bipartisan Disbelief

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But really, who among us hasn’t inadvertently shared secret plans about an imminent military strike on Yemen with the editor in chief of The Atlantic? Wait, what? Occasionally, Washington gets hit with one of those stories. The kind that halts the busy company town in its divided tracks. Everyone seems to unite, at least briefly, in disbelief. A single dominant topic comes along and crushes everything, and all the rest is suddenly beside the point. It rarely happens in this day and age of competing social-media ecosystems. But yesterday was one of those days. Even Elon Musk could barely crack the headlines. The group gobsmacking began shortly after noon, when The Atlantic dropped a bombshell story headlined “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.” Spoiler alert: The story is about how the Trump administration accidentally texted the author its war plans. You’ve likely heard about this by now. Said author—The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg—somehow was added to an extremely sensitive discussion, on the nongovernmental messaging app Signal, about a planned U.S. …

Gene Hackman’s wife died from rare infectious disease around a week before actor’s death, medical investigator says | US News

Gene Hackman’s wife died from rare infectious disease around a week before actor’s death, medical investigator says | US News

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Gene Hackman’s wife died from rare infectious disease around a week before the actor died, medical investigators have said. The couple were found dead in their New Mexico home on 26 February, along with one of their pet dogs. Police have previously said there were no apparent signs of foul play. At a press conference on Friday, chief medical investigator for New Mexico, doctor Heather Jarrell, gave an update on the results of post-mortem investigations carried out following their deaths. Doctor Jarrell said Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare infectious disease. There were no signs of trauma and the death was a result of natural causes, she said. Image: Actor Gene Hackman with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, pictured in 2003. Pic: AP The doctor said Arakawa likely died on 11 February, the date she was last known to have communicated with people via email. She said Hackman had advanced Alzheimer’s and died from heart disease, with data from his pacemaker last registering on 18 February. Due to his Alzheimer’s, “it’s …

Brooklyn Beckham and wife Nicola have Posh and Becks twinning moment during rare London visit

Brooklyn Beckham and wife Nicola have Posh and Becks twinning moment during rare London visit

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Brooklyn Beckham and his wife Nicola Peltz appeared to take a leaf out of David and Victoria’s book on Monday during London Fashion Week. The pair, who travelled to the British capital to attend the Burberry Winter 2025 show, had a twinning moment, opting to wear almost identical baggy trousers crafted from the brand’s iconic check material. © Getty ImagesThe pair donned matching trousers Brooklyn, 25, completed his ensemble with a matching zip-up jacket and a black sports cap, while Transformers actress Nicola, paired her trousers with an edgy leather jacket, skyscraper platform heels and a quilted leather bag. © Getty ImagesBrooklyn and Nicola paid a visit to the British capital She wore her raven locks in a half-up, half-down style and highlighted her features with rosy blush and a sweep of matte pink lipstick. Recommended videoYou may also likeWATCH: Nicola Peltz Beckham stuns in photoshoot BTS The pair’s twinning moment echoed some of David and Victoria’s memorable matchy-matchy looks, including their head-to-toe leather outfits which they wore to the Versace Club gala party back in 1999. …

A Trump Cabinet Pick Gets a Rare GOP Grilling

A Trump Cabinet Pick Gets a Rare GOP Grilling

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The fate of Lori Chavez-DeRemer could show whether Trump will soften the party’s long-standing opposition to labor unions. Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty February 19, 2025, 4:22 PM ET Republican senators have confirmed a onetime Bernie Sanders supporter to lead the nation’s intelligence community and a member of America’s most famous Democratic family as its health secretary. This morning, however, they saved some of their sharpest questions for a Cabinet nominee who, until last month, served alongside them as a GOP member of Congress. President Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary, former Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon, knew she’d face a skeptical Republican audience during her Senate confirmation hearing. Last year, she supported a major pro-union bill known as the PRO Act, a decision that has scrambled ideological alliances and thrown her nomination into doubt. The idea that a pro-union candidate might lead a Republican Labor Department was once unthinkable. But Trump’s nomination of Chavez-DeRemer comes at a time when the party’s base includes an unusually large number of union members. Her supporters have …

Mike Tindall shares rare insight into home life with three kids and what makes Zara ‘scream SO loudly’

Mike Tindall shares rare insight into home life with three kids and what makes Zara ‘scream SO loudly’

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Mike Tindall made a rare comment about life at home with his wife Zara and their three children, Lena, Mia and Lucas. The rugby star has guest-edited a special edition of Beano to celebrate Bananaman’s 45th anniversary. In his editor’s letter about the exciting venture he revealed that at home, he likes to play pranks on his equestrian wife, and often jumps out at her. WATCH: Mike Tindall rules out having any more children in discussion with wife Zara Tindall He wrote: “My job now is being a dad and I love it. It’s important to set a good example, so I play pranks on the kids and their mum. I love hiding and jumping out to scare them. It works best on mum – she screams SO loudly! The kids’ favourite prank is to hide under the table and tie people’s shoelaces together!  The family-of-four live at Aston Farm, a luxury farmhouse on the Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire, UK. It’s safe to say that all three of the Tindall brood have inherited their father’s sense of …