Privacy concerns about using massive DNA databases in law enforcement investigations continue – especially for services that exist mostly to satisfy people’s personal curiosity about their heritage.
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Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
South Korea’s Justice Ministry bans Yoon from traveling overseas as police, prosecutors and an anti-corruption agency expand competing investigations into allegations of rebellion and other charges.
Conservative businessman Rafael López Aliaga currently leads in polls, while Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, is running second in most others.
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Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
17 Feb. 2026
According to polls conducted by Niche, 84% of Blue Valley North students feel safe at the school, while 82% of them like their school and feel happy to be there.
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Rashad Alexander,
Kansas City Star,
17 Feb. 2026
Often regarded as Egypt’s answer to Alfred Hitchcock, the great director Kamal al Sheikh was known for his noir-inflected, clear-eyed explorations of class.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
The Prince recounts his interplanetary explorations, with strange characters at each stop, before his arrival on Earth.
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Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
Longitudinal studies across diverse populations will be needed to assess whether shifts in the oral microbiome can predict future weight gain, insulin resistance, or cardiometabolic decline, and perhaps most excitingly, whether modifying one's oral ecosystem alters systemic metabolic markers.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Feb. 2026
This means that even if lack of sleep plays a genuine role in increasing your injury risk, studies like this will have a hard time proving it.
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