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Interest in "Bitcoin Request for Comment" or BRC-20 tokens built with Ordinals and stored on the Bitcoin base chain has skyrocketed, lifting their market value by several hundred percent.

A huge fire in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol on Saturday has been put out after what was reported to be a Ukrainian drone strike on fuel tanks at a Russian navy depot.Video footage posted on social media showed a large waterside area on fire, with a column of black smoke rising from the burning fuel.

Connor Brown did not have the 2022-23 season that he thought he was going to have when the first puck was dropped.Brown played just four games for his new Washington Capitals team before tearing his ACL and being ruled out for the rest of the year.Heading into the offseason, Brown is without a contract for next season.

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit yesterday against the state of Tennessee over its S.B. 1, a bill that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors and gives trans youth already receiving gender-affirming care until March 2024 to detransition."No person should be denied access to necessary medical care just because of their transgender status," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement.

A blood test which can detect traces of cancer cells could spare thousands of patients unnecessary chemotherapy every year.A major bowel cancer trial is examining whether the test can show if surgery has removed all of the tumour.Doctors say half of patients with stage 3 bowel cancer are cured by surgery alone so by using chemotherapy they are over-treating many people.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three vulnerabilities to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog, including an Oracle WebLogic flaw patched by the vendor in January.There do not appear to be any public reports describing exploitation of the WebLogic vulnerability.

Here, from the Washington Post, is the money shot of the latest update on the climate crisis, this one concerning how warm the oceans are getting, which has led researchers to believe we are entering an El Nino climate pattern, which leads to all of the following, ending in "the plague": Strong El Ninos can also trigger ecological disasters and deadly weather extremes: drought and wildfires that cause rainforest loss, ocean warming that kills aquatic life and bleaches corals, rapid loss of polar ice, and a surge in transmission of diseases such as the plague.

Interest in "Bitcoin Request for Comment" or BRC-20 tokens built with Ordinals and stored on the Bitcoin base chain has skyrocketed, lifting their market value by several hundred percent.As of writing, the combined market cap of more than 8,800 BRC-20 tokens was $137 million - a staggering 682% rise from $17.5 million seen a week ago, according to data tracked by Ordinals-builder Ordspace.

Lamar Jackson made it abundantly clear that he wants out of Baltimore this offseason, yet his latest tweet could calm down some Ravens fans.Following the events that transpired this week, the Lamar Jackson situation has officially become unhinged.The Baltimore Ravens have a quarterback who submitted a trade request in early March and wants out of the franchise.

MOSCOW Aleksei Moskalyov did not wait to hear his sentence for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces on Tuesday.Years behind bars for posts on social media seemed like a foregone conclusion in contemporary Russia.So Mr. Moskalyov slipped off his geotracking ankle bracelet and fled from house arrest.

Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down in the wake of student protests and widespread calls for her resignation over missteps on diversity, equity and inclusion.Bergeron made the announcement Friday morning, writing in a statement that she would formally step down "at the end of the current semester."

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Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN.Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.comfrom 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-- Before LeBron James walked off the practice court to speak to reporters Monday, he tracked down a loose ball near the half-court line and flung it over his right shoulder back towards the basket where he had just been shooting with Anthony Davis.

The wave of Russian missile attacks was the first since early March.At least 25 civilians have been killed in a wave of Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities, as Kyiv said it was nearly ready to launch a huge assault to retake occupied land.The attacks on the cities of Dnipro and Uman in the early hours of Friday were the first large-scale air raids in nearly two months.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed three laws on Wednesday, including one banning conversion therapy, another protecting access to abortion rights, and a third protecting gender-affirming care access.The laws will defend LGBTQ+ people and reproductive rights against attacks on both by Republican legislators nationwide.

More than three-quarters of a million people in the UK with long Covid are likely to have first had the virus at least two years ago, new figures suggest.Some 1.9 million people across the country are currently estimated to be suffering from long Covid, or 2.9% of the population.This includes 762,000 who first had Covid-19, or suspected they had the virus, at least 24 months previously.

Disney's anti-racism film Ruby Bridges is the subject of a complaint brought by a Florida parent who claims the movie is not appropriate for second-graders, because it might teach them that white people hate Black people.The film, which tells the story of a six-year-old girl who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s, has been a staple of school curriculums during Black History Month in the state's Tampa-area county of Pinellas.

Ryan Reynolds has congratulated Wrexham AFC Women on playing their guts out to secure a title win.The 46-year-old Hollywood star, who has co-owned Welsh side Wrexham AFC with fellow actor Rob McElhenney since 2021, celebrated the female-affiliated club taking home the Genero Adran North title at the weekend.

The amount of excellent food available in New York City is dizzying - even during a pandemic - yet mediocre meals somehow keep worming their way into our lives.With Eater editors dining out sometimes several times a day, we do come across lots of standout dishes, and we don't want to keep any secrets.

C hilling footage shows a man deliberately smash the windows of an east London restaurant - amid a bizarre spate of attacks that have left dozens of businesses suffering thousands of pounds of damage.Around 50 incidents are thought to have hit the Bethnal Green area in recent months, with some premises targeted multiple times - leaving worried business owners pleading for extra CCTV cover.

The nightmare shook the old man, who was now in his late 90s.He dreamed of falling from the sky.He awoke feeling helpless and afraid.John Wenzel, a veteran, automotive executive, father and grandfather, had recently moved into a senior living apartment in Brooklyn Heights, the Watermark on Clark Street, a new, frills-and-all building with a Manhattan skyline view.

The nightmare shook the old man, who was now in his late 90s.He dreamed of falling from the sky.He awoke feeling helpless and afraid.John Wenzel, a veteran, automotive executive, father and grandfather, had recently moved into a senior living apartment in Brooklyn Heights, the Watermark on Clark Street, a new, frills-and-all building with a Manhattan skyline view.

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

In his Arcadia home, Roland Coleman grew increasingly frustrated as the months passed without an answer from Keck Medical Center of USC.Coleman, 73, was seeking a kidney transplant to free him from his listless afternoons undergoing dialysis and lengthen what remains of his life.

For someone whose career has been spent addressing the urgency of climate change, environmental-politics researcher Leah Stokes sounded awfully cheery in a talk in early March at the SXSW conference in Austin.I'm not telling you don't dry your clothes, don't cook your food, don't drive anywhere,' Stokes, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the crowd.

After hitting an impasse in contract talks this off-season, the star quarterback Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens reached an agreement in principle on a five-year deal on Thursday, Jackson announced in a video posted on the team's Twitter account.For the last few months, there's been a lot of he said, she said,' a lot of nail biting, a lot of head scratching going on, Jackson, 26, said before announcing that he would light up the Ravens' home stadium for the next five years.

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As yet another major storm brings more rain and snow to California, Mammoth Mountain has broken its historic snowfall record - by a lot."With 28-30 [inches] of snow since yesterday afternoon, we just blew through our all-time season snowfall record of 668" inches, Mammoth Mountain said in an Instagram post.

Add the Patriots to the growing list of teams that are publicly out on Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson this offseason.In the wake of Lamar Jackson's bombshell letter detailing his three-week-old trade request from early March, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick isn't taking the bait.Belichick was asked whether he would pursue the Baltimore Ravens quarterback this offseason and curtly responded, " I'm not going to talk about players on another team.

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson picked a hell of a time to make a personal statement on his future, one that nonetheless offers some clarity to his tempestuous situation.It's business, it's not personal.That was the upshot of Lamar Jackson's self-written letter to his fans on Twitter in which the Baltimore Ravens quarterback finally provided clarity on his future.