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Engineering AggieFab semiconductor labTexas A&M Universirty While Silicon Valley and Austin have long dominated America’s technology landscape, a new powerhouse is emerging in an unexpected corner of Texas. This is where Texas A&M University is rapidly transforming College Station into one of the most promising up and coming tech hubs in the nation, with over $1.5 billion invested in research and development initiatives since 2020. The university serves as a catalyst for diverse economic growth and technological advancement across the southern United States through its complete approach to building a tech hub. The Breakdown You Need To Know: When engineers…

Several dozen anti-Israel activists protested outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on Christmas Day, continuing a practice in which they have targeted Christian symbols and the Christmas holiday over the last 15 months. The Times of Israel reported: Last year, activists chanted “Christmas is canceled” and rioted in New York. They also shut down a key highway in Chicago leading to O’Hare International Airport, and disrupted Christmas shopping in Memphis, Tennessee. Pro-Palestinian activists and climate change activists also disrupted an Easter service at St. Patrick’s earlier this year. Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and…

President-elect Donald Trump will take office on January 20 and has pledged to sign a host of executive orders (EOs) on day one. Many of the EOs will reverse policies undertaken by the Biden administration, restore Trump’s own past policies, and implement new policy goals. Stephen Miller, Trump’s pick for White House deputy chief of staff for policy, said deportations of illegal migrants will be the president-elect’s first priority. “President Trump … on day one, is going to issue a series of executive orders that seal the border shut and begin the largest deportation operation in American history,” he told…

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other UN staff were at Yemen’s international airport in Sanaa on Thursday during an Israeli air strike.In a social media post, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he and staff were about to board a plane when the airport came under aerial bombardment.”One of our plane’s crew members was injured,” he wrote, adding that two people at the airport were killed.The strikes – which also hit power stations and ports – have killed at least three people with more than a dozen injured, according to Houthi-run media. The Iran-backed rebel group…

Last year, Yahoo Entertainment attempted to settle the decades-old debate about whether or not Diehard counts as a Christmas movie (spoiler alert, the country remains divided). And that question got us thinking, what other unexpected movies are our readers watching around the holidays? So we asked! Beyond the standard submissions such as Elf or It’s a Wonderful Life (both Christmas classics that we love, but not exactly unconventional picks around Christmastime), here are some of the most surprising holiday movies that our readers return to around this time of year.Bad Santa (2003)The movie recommended the most to us when we…

The IDF reportedly deemed upwards of 20 civilian casualties per airstrike an acceptable death toll The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) allegedly loosened its rules of engagement at the start of the war with Hamas, giving officers permission to conduct airstrikes even when they knew that dozens of civilians would be killed, the New York Times has reported.Within hours of Hamas militants attacking Israel on October 7 last year, the IDF issued an order authorizing mid-ranking officers to strike not just senior Hamas commanders or known military sites, but also low-level fighters and sites with a potentially high number of civilian…

Authored by Mohamed El-Erian via Project Syndicate,In 2024, global geopolitics and national politics have undergone considerable upheaval, and the world economy has both significant weaknesses, including Europe and China, and notable bright spots, especially the US. In the coming year, the range of possible outcomes will broaden further.It is something of a tradition every December to take stock of the year that is ending and consider what might lie ahead. This is true on a personal level: in my family, we tend to do this around the dinner table.But it is also true more broadly, with the time of year…

Three boys ages 12 to 13 were shot and injured after they tried to rob a man at gunpoint at an apartment complex in Harris County, Texas, early Thursday morning. According to law enforcement, 4 young boys ages 12 to 14 were involved in the incident. The three young kids who were shot were rushed to a nearby hospital, one in critical condition. The shooter told police he acted in self defense and he only shot the boys because they tried to rob him in his home at gunpoint. KHOU 11 reported: Three boys were shot and injured, one of…

Sam Konstas and Virat Kohli got into an altercation in hte Boxing Day Test (Photo by Robert … [+] Cianflone/Getty Images)Getty Images Leave it to Virat Kohli, India’s talismanic batter who doubles as a renowned provocateur, to try to light a fire under his beleaguered team. With batting phenom Sam Konstas taking center stage on Australian cricket’s biggest day, India was rattled with Kohli notably seething as this 19-year-old opener single-handedly changed the momentum of a blockbuster Test series between Australia and India tied at 1-1. After a slow start on a tough surface, Konstas unfurled outrageous strokes to completely…

By Mac Slavo The United Kingdom’s rulers created an online censorship law that has now advanced to the point where small websites are being shut down. The authoritarians who authored the U.K.’s “Online Safety Act” are citing disproportionate liability and risk under the new law when it comes to these smaller web pages. The new legislative landscape in the country, which is supposed to go into effect in full force in March is already claiming victims, according to a report by Reclaim the Net. The law is not providing any kind of safety for hundreds of small websites, including non-profit…