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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — By the time Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi boarded his window seat on a helicopter ferrying him, the foreign minister and six others, thick clouds already had begun forming around the mountaintops along the Azerbaijan-Iran border. Despite the worsening weather, the helicopter lifted off for a trip about 145 kilometers (90 miles) southwest to a new oil pipeline near Tabriz. Within an hour, the Bell 212 helicopter had crashed into a cloud-covered mountainside. While the cause of the May 19 crash remains unknown, the sudden death of the hard-line protégé of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei exposed the contradictions and challenges facing the country's Shiite theocracy.

Strange behavior in a massive cluster of merging galaxies could be explained if dark matter, the universe's most mysterious stuff, can collide with itself. However, the most favored model of cosmology right now is the cold dark matter (CDM) model — and it suggests that dark matter, which is effectively invisible because it doesn't interact with light, is not self-interacting. To get to the bottom of this conundrum, researchers from the Astrophysics and Cosmology group of Italy's Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) set about simulating what is happening within the massive galactic cluster "El Gordo" (which literally means "the Fat One" in Spanish). It's located around 7 billion light-years from Earth

Of course, such a transformation is always a big deal for the person going through it, but when it happens in Hollywood, everyone takes notice. We took notice too! That’s why we published our previous article about celebs and their physical journeys and that’s also why you asked us for this third one.

Fans of The Valley have watched Bravo TV veteran Jax Taylor prep for his Studio City bar opening for almost the entirety of the series' first season. And while the doors might finally be open (the soft launch was documented in the finale), fans are sorta, kinda, wishing they weren't. Customers are slamming the Vanderpump Rules star's sports bar all over Yelp for its "barely edible food" and "horrible service

The judge who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial in New York made the parties aware Friday of a post to the court system’s Facebook page. In the post, a user said, "My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!” Judge Juan Merchan Get info without leaving the page. said the comment, now labeled as one week old,

You’re clearly sympathetic to Trump, but you believe that he should drop this talk of revenge. Did he commit to not pursuing that if he was elected president?” Phillip asked about their interview. McGraw answered by saying he would be sympathetic to President Biden, too, if he was the one in that situation. “Well, first of all, I’m sympathetic to what Trump has gone through in this particular trial, because I think it was not proper due process for him,” McGraw responded. “I would say the same thing if was Biden or anyone else in that process. So, I want to be clear.