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Gravity is, at bottom, a mystery. Yes, we can talk about the curvature of space-time and perhaps make analogies with stretched rubber sheets. But we don’t know why mass causes spacetime to curve. To put it another way, in our theory of gravity, matter is the stage and space-time is …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that Washington was imposing visa restrictions on Chinese officials responsible for restricting freedoms in Hong Kong, but did not mention any of the targets. FILE PHOTO: United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives a press conference on …

Portland becomes a “war zone” as shops are looted, anti-police protesters set fire to a compound, and police use tear gas during the violent night of demonstrations Protesters try to create an ‘autonomous zone’ outside the Portland Police Bureau North Precinct Thursday night Police officers used tear gas to disperse …

After the wave of recent sexual assault allegations against popular Twitch streamers last weekend, the live-streaming platform has begun banning some of these accounts. According to a Kotaku report and corroborated by the StreamerBans Twitter account, several prominent streamers, including IamSp00n, Wolv21, BlessRNG, DreadedCone, and WarwitchTV, have been banned this …

President Trump thought he had. With the appointment of two right-wing Supreme Court justices and 200 federal judicial appointments, Trump felt he had delivered on a key promise from the 2016 campaign to make the judiciary conservative. For reelection, Trump and his aides did not see him shoot supporters in …