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NRG and Leviatán lead the pack as all four VCT Americas Stage 2 playoff spots are claimed

All four teams punched their tickets to the Stage 2 playoffs on August 13, setting up a high-stakes bracket ahead of Champions Shanghai qualification.

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Google is building three huge new subsea cables to connect North, Central and South America

Google looks to better connect the Americas with a host of new subsea cables.

TechRadar

Gujarat's Sidi Community Has Kept African Music and Dance Alive in India for Four Centuries

The Drum That Crossed the OceanThe Goma drum does not sound like anything else in Gujarat. It is lower, older, more insistent, the kind of sound that gets into the sternum before the ear has caught up. In Jambur village, about 65 kilometres from Junagadh, the Sidi community brings it…

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Earlier this year, researchers analyzed ancient Chilean mummies for traces of smallpox DNA. The evidence produced the first direct molecular proof that European colonists brought the deadly virus to the Americas

Smallpox DNA discovery: Ancient DNA from Chilean mummies offers direct evidence of European smallpox introduction. This discovery supports long-held theories about the disease's impact on Indigenous communities. Researchers found smallpox DNA in remains from the early Spanish colonial period.

The Economic Times

World Cup boost helps Holiday Inn owner weather Iran war hit

IHG said revenue per available room rose by 4.8% in the Americas over the half-year.

Evening Standard

Holiday Inn owner IHG boosted by World Cup after Iran war hit bookings

The group reported revenues up 6 per cent on an underlying basis to $1.26 billion (£930 million) for the six months to 30 June

The Independent UK

FitLine Expands Its Performance-Driven Wellness Brand Across the Americas

Backed by a parent company that ranks #5 in the Direct Selling News Global 100, making it one of the top five direct selling companies in the world, FitLine brings global scale and proven credibility to every market it enters.

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Apex Legends ENC Qualifiers Finals: Scores, teams, and more

40 teams are going to the Finals this November.

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Scientists studying 500-year-old Chilean mummies have uncovered the first DNA evidence of smallpox in the Americas

Ancient DNA from Chilean mummies confirms smallpox arrival during early colonization. This discovery provides direct evidence of the virus's presence and evolutionary path. The recovered genomes represent an extinct smallpox lineage, distinct from modern strains. This genetic data helps fill gaps left by historical colonial accounts. The findings offer new…

The Times of India

Apex Legends Esports Nations Cup 2026 Qualifiers: Schedule, format, and countries

Nations across the world will compete for Apex Legends glory.

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Ancient mummy DNA in Chile shows that colonisation brought smallpox to the Americas

Analysis of DNA from Chilean mummies has revealed the earliest known genome of the smallpox virus recovered from the Americas.

Euronews

Ancient mummy DNA offers strongest evidence yet that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas

Before its eradication in 1980, largely due to vaccination, smallpox stood as one of humanity's deadliest diseases

The Independent UK

500-year-old Inca mummies prove that European colonists brought devastating smallpox to the Americas

Ancient DNA from Chilean mummies is the first ever molecular evidence that European colonizers brought smallpox to the Americas, decimating Indigenous populations.

LiveScience

An ancient Mexican city once home to 90,000 people vanished nearly 1,000 years ago. Scientists think a 650-year drought may explain why

Around a thousand years ago, the ancient city of Cantona stood as one of the largest urban centres in the Americas, with an estimated population of 90,000 people. Built on the volcanic highlands of central Mexico, the fortified settlement thrived for centuries before it was mysteriously abandoned by the mid-11th…

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Carín León Leads 2026 Premios Juventud Nominations as Awards Head to Europe for First Time

TelevisaUnivision has unveiled the nominees for the 2026 Premios Juventud, announcing that Mexican singer Carín León leads this year's field with nine nominations as the awards prepare for a historic first: broadcasting from Europe. The ceremony will air live Sept. 3 from the Starlite Amphitheater in Marbella, Spain, marking the…

Benzinga

Anthony Scaramucci Says 'There Are Really Two Americas Right Now' as He Warns of Deep Political Divide

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said the U.S. is facing a deep political divide between establishment institutions and frustrated populist voters, arguing that a leader who acknowledges both sides could reshape American politics.

Times Life

Ants Have Been Farming Fungi Underground for 66 Million Years, Long Before Human Agriculture

The oldest farm on Earth is undergroundAround 66 million years ago, a group of ants in what is now South America made a deal with a fungus. The ants would carry organic material into sealed underground chambers. The fungus would break it down into something edible. Neither could thrive without…

Benzinga

Bernie Sanders Points To '2 Americas' as Poll Shows 66% Of Americans Can't Afford Groceries, Including Those Earning Over $100,000: 'We Can Do Better...'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the United States has become “2 Americas,” contrasting the combined wealth of the country’s richest technology billionaires with the financial struggles many Americans face buying groceries.

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Colombian Women Fought to End A Harmful Ritual After The Loss Of 3 Baby Girls Sparked Public Outcry

Juliana Domicó stood before Colombia's Senate last month and watched her country make history: the first law in the Americas aimed at ending a harmful ritual few outside a handful of Indigenous communities even know exists. Getting there took years of failed punitive measures, one of which only drove the…

The Conversation

How Canada’s vaccine infrastructure helped guard against infectious disease during the FIFA World Cup

As World Cup fans cheer at the quarterfinals, concerns remain about the health of Norway’s players, several of whom are recovering from what turned out to be mild illness. Other international players had expressed concern earlier about measles in the Americas.

The Times of India

A giant armadillo relative found in Argentina may have helped feed some of South America's earliest humans 20,000 years ago

Scientists working in Argentina have come across something that could shake up what we know about how early humans reached South America. Cut marks found on the bones of a giant, extinct armadillo relative suggest people were already living there roughly 20,000 years ago, way earlier than most researchers used…

The Times of India

Scientists discover previously unknown Asian 'ghost population' hidden in Indigenous American DNA

A sweeping new genetic study has added a fascinating twist to the story of how humans first settled the Americas. By analysing nearly two hundred Indigenous genomes, researchers have found evidence of three separate migration waves into South America, including one that was completely unknown until now. The study also…

The Economic Times

23,000-year-old footprints found in New Mexico reveal when first humans came to America: Early settlers arrived during Ice age; evidence rewrites America's origin story

Scientific analysis of 23,000-year-old footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has strengthened the case for an unexpectedly early human presence in the Americas. Using fossilised pollen and quartz grain dating alongside earlier radiocarbon methods, researchers say multiple independent lines of evidence now point to the same ancient…

Medical Daily

Dengue Is Rising in South Texas as World Cup Fans Arrive from Countries with Active Outbreaks

PAHO issued dengue warnings for World Cup 2026. Bexar County has Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Brazil and Mexico fans carry dengue risk. Here's what San Antonio needs to know.

The Times of India

23,000-year-old footprints in White Sands are rewriting the story of the first humans in the Americas

In the scrubby expanse of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a set of impressions pressed into ancient mud has continued to unsettle assumptions about when people first moved through the Americas. The markings, preserved in layers of sediment that later hardened into gypsum, were first described in a…

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