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2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season
The 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 156th overall and the second to use the 12-team College Football Playoff, ran from August 23 through the national championship on January 19, 2026, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The Indiana Hoosiers captured their first-ever national title by edging ou...
NCIS (TV series)
NCIS is a popular American military police procedural that premiered on CBS on September 23, 2003, as a spin-off from JAG, created by Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill. After a slow start, it became a cultural phenomenon, being voted "America's favorite television show" in 2011 and becoming the most-watched ...
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) was the founder and first emir of al-Qaeda, a Salafi jihadist organization he created in 1988 to wage global terrorism and establish a pan-Islamist caliphate. After helping Afghan mujahideen fight the Soviet Union in the 1980s, he was expelled from Saudi Arabia for opposing ...
Tosh Lupoi
Tosh Lupoi (born July 22, 1981) is the current head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley, returning to his alma mater where he was a defensive lineman from 2000 to 2005. After starting his coaching career at Cal as a graduate assistant and defensive line coach, he earned a reputation as an elite rec...
Jacob Lopez
Jacob Lopez (born March 11, 1998) is an American professional baseball pitcher currently playing for the Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). Originally drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 26th round of the 2018 MLB Draft, he was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays
Mount Sinabung
Mount Sinabung, an active stratovolcano in North Sumatra, Indonesia, sits on the Karo plateau near Lake Toba and remained dormant for roughly 400 years before its recent activity. After a long quiet period (last known eruption around 740–880 CE), it erupted dramatically on 29 August 2010, and has been ...
2025 Houston Astros season
The 2025 Houston Astros season ended in dramatic disappointment, as the team squandered a strong start to miss the playoffs for the first time since 2016, snapping their franchise-record eight-year postseason streak. After holding a 7-game division lead on July 6 with a 55-35 record, the Astros collapsed to 32-40 in their final 72 game...
Snowfall (TV series)
Snowfall is an American crime drama series created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron, which aired on FX from July 5, 2017, to April 19, 2023, spanning six seasons and 60 episodes. The show follows the rise of young drug dealer Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) as he navigates the crack cocaine epidemic in 198...
Malik Nabers
Malik Nabers (born July 28, 2003) is a standout wide receiver for the New York Giants who became LSU's all-time leading receiver with 3,003 yards and earned unanimous All-American honors in 2023. After being selected sixth overall in the 2024 NFL draft, he signed a $29.9 million contract and took the field wearing jers...
Social Security Trust Fund
The Social Security Trust Fund, comprising the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI) funds, held roughly $2.9 trillion in 2021 to pay for retirement and disability benefits. Financed by payroll taxes, the surplus is invested in special non-marketable U.S. government bonds...
Retirement age
The statutory retirement age—when citizens can claim state pensions—dates back to the Roman Empire in 13 BC, but the first official age was set by Otto von Bismarck in Germany in 1889 at 70, later reduced to 65. Britain and the US adopted their own systems in 1908 and ...
Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest, bordered by Canada and several U.S. states, and is famously known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" (it actually has over 14,000). With about 5.8 million residents, more than 60% live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul "Twin Cities" metropolitan area, which serves as the state's main c...