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Storie Vault expansion lets fans help shape story direction
Tech
— Sep 3, 2026
Storie Vault unveiled a major expansion adding community features, expanded genres, and more contests to deepen engagement between writers and readers, while enabling fans to influence story direction and collaborate with creators. The update positions the platform as a more interactive hub for original online fiction beyond traditional publishing.
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Sam Okafor
More genres and contests is great, but I hope the "community input" doesn't water down the author's original vision over time.
Pole Vault World Champion Shawn Barber Dies at 29
Reporting
— Jan 19, 2024
Pole Vault World Champion Shawn Barber has died at the age of 29. On Thursday, Akron Track & Field announced the news of Barber’s passing in a statement. He was a student-athlete at the University of Akron . “The…
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SEC Warns Crypto Vaults May Be Securities
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— Jul 22, 2026
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned that crypto vaults and on-chain lending strategies may fall under existing federal securities laws depending on their structure, with the Howey test guiding whether they are securities. She stressed that regulators will assess each product case-by-case, that moving activities onchain does not automatically remove them from regulation, and urged developers and participants to engage with the agency rather than assume blockchain design exempts them.
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Duplantis wins Lausanne Diamond League pole vault, clears 6.21m, narrowly misses world record
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— Aug 17, 2026
Mondo Duplantis won the Lausanne Diamond League pole vault at 6.21m, with Emmanouil Karalis second at 6.16m, while Duplantis failed twice at 6.32m in a bid for a new world record, and he later added a European title in Birmingham with a championship-record 6.15m. The meet also highlighted Karalis’s close duel, Marschall’s 5.91m and Lavillenie’s upset omission, underscoring Duplantis’s continued dominance and his ongoing pursuit of breaking the world mark.
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Italy Scrambles Warships Toward Red Sea As Houthis Close In On Global Shipping Chokepoint
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Project Vault Is Not About Mining. It Is About America’s Investment In The 21st Century
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— Aug 2, 2026
For forty years, Washington accepted a simple premise: let global markets determine where strategic industries are built and where critical supply chains reside.
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From ancient queens who ruled empires to modern activists who changed laws, these women left indelible marks on politics, science, and culture. Vote for who you think shaped history most profoundly.
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Trump Launching Massive Stockpile To Break China’s Critical Mineral Chokehold
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— Feb 2, 2026
The Trump administration is planning to create a critical mineral stockpile with $12 billion in startup capital, Bloomberg News reported Monday. The plan — called Private Vault — aims to insulate American manufacturers…
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Disney’s Upcoming ‘Bambi’ Remake Will Bring a Big Change to Iconic Hunter Scene
Opinion
— Oct 2, 2023
Since Disney seems utterly insistent on remaking every classic from its vault (well, maybe not “Song of the South”), it was never a matter of if Disney would eventually remake the 1942 classic “Bambi,” but when. While…
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Woman Falls Head-First Into Vault Toilet after Attempting to Fish Out Her Phone with a Dog Leash
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— Apr 23, 2022
If you have a cellphone, you’ve probably misplaced it before. They end up in the strangest places sometimes — falling out of pockets, getting left on top of cars or simply being set somewhere and forgotten. Many of us…
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Commentary: Geraldo Rivera Throws Crumpled Paper and Turns Back To Camera in Anger During Interview
Reporting
— May 22, 2021
Dan Bongino is the human personification of Al Capone’s vault. For those too young to remember — or too intelligent to care — Geraldo Rivera was near the apex of his fame when he hosted a TV special in 1986 titled “The…
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Nigerian football content creator jokes about Brentford thrashing Chelsea in viral post
The post by @Adikastakes uses humorous “food” banter and Pidgin English to mock Brentford’s heavy defeat of Chelsea. It is trending in Nigerian/football Twitter circles due to entertaining rival-fan banter. The reaction is mostly one-sided and supportive, with 85-90% agreeing or amplifying the joke versus 10-15% disagreeing or neutral.
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Male Athlete Sweeps Women’s Event Days After State Refused To Enforce Trump’s Rule
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— Feb 18, 2025
A male high school student dominated a girls’ pole vaulting competition in Maine after the state refused to comply with President Donald Trump’s order to separate sports by gender. The student, who goes by Katie…
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Ancient Greek Tombs Unveiled In Ashkelon, Israel, For Public Viewing
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— Sep 6, 2024
Dr. Elena Kogan-Zehavi of the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered one of the tombs about 30 years ago, standing in one of the preserved sites. EMIL ALADJEM/ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY. “> Two vaulted tombs dating…
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Quentin Tarantino vs Martin Scorsese
The video store savant versus the film-school don — two visions of American violence, guilt, and cool.
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Louvre Apollo Gallery Reopens Empty of Jewels
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— Jul 20, 2026
The Apollo Gallery at the Louvre will reopen with no crown jewels on display and will restore its 17th-century function as a state gallery, following the 2025 theft of eight crown jewels worth €88 million and plans for a secure, windowless vault elsewhere in the museum. The reopening, attended by Culture Minister Catherine Pégard, comes amid leadership changes and heightened scrutiny of the museum’s security.
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World Athletics Ratifies Eight World Records, Sawe Sub-2
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— Jul 23, 2026
World Athletics ratified seven senior world records and one world U20 record set in the first five months of 2026, including Sabastian Sawe’s 1:59:30 sub-two-hour marathon on a record-eligible London course and Tigst Assefa’s women-only 2:15:41. The batch also features Mondo Duplantis extending his pole vault world record to 6.31m, underscoring a historic year for track and field records.
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