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business
‘Doomsday Plane’ Contract for $13 Billion Goes to Sierra NevadaSierra Nevada Corp. has won a $13 billion contract to develop a successor to the “Doomsday Plane,” the E-4B command and control aircraft on which the president would fly in in event of national emergency such as a nuclear attack, the Pentagon announced Friday.April 26, 2024
pursuits
Why you might have heard Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass(RNS) — One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar remembers singing a specific version of the Our Father.April 26, 2024
technology
Alphabet Joins $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI StrengthAlphabet Inc. closed decisively above a $2 trillion market capitalization for the first time on Friday, as a powerhouse earnings report reassured investors that the Google parent would be a major player in artificial intelligence.April 26, 2024
industries
Bird Flu and Milk: Can Humans Get H5N1? Safety and Risks ExplainedA strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza that’s been decimating wild and captive flocks of birds since 2020 has spread among US dairy cows — and has infected one person in Texas exposed to the sick animals. Traces of the virus have been found in about 20% of commercial milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said April 25. Health authorities say that pasteurization — which kills viruses though some inactivated particles may remain — is expeApril 26, 2024