Golden Globes Nominations 2021: Kaley Cuoco, Lily Collins and More Nominees React

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Golden Globes Nominations 2021: Kaley Cuoco, Lily Collins and More Nominees React

Congratulations are so as for numerous stars as they controlled to nab a Golden Globe nomination on Wednesday, February 3, in advance of this year’s ceremony. Kaley Cuoco had a tearful response upon mastering that her HBO Max collection, The Flight Attendant, allowed her to earn her first nomination for Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy. The collection itself become additionally identified below the Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy category. 

Lily Collins, for her part, earned her 2nd Golden Globes nomination on Wednesday for Netflix’s Emily in Paris. The Stuck in Love actress become final identified for her efforts in 2017, while she obtained a nod in the Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Rules Don’t Apply.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton musical obtained a record-breaking sixteen nominations on the Tony Awards in 2016. Now, in 2021, it is miles being venerated on the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy after the Broadway display arrived on Disney+ in July 2020.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards will continue on February 28 — almost months later than it become formerly scheduled. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will pass back to host the celebrated occasion for the fourth time.

Tom Holland Expertly Dodges Questions for ‘Spider-Man 3’

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Tom Holland Expertly Dodges Questions for ‘Spider-Man 3’

The British actor, 24, sat down with Variety to speak about the movie in a Thursday, February 4, interview. Asked whether or not or now no longer or now no longer Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield — each of whom formerly portrayed the web-slinging superhero — additionally can additionally seem in Spider-Man 3, Holland stored coy.
“I met Andrew once, I met him at the BAFTAs. He became into lovely. He became into a honestly excellent bloke and we had a pleasing chat. It became into pretty quickly after Spider-Man: Homecoming had come out. He became into honestly fantastic and excellent,” the Cherry massive name recalled, including that he “ran into Tobey a few instances at exclusive events in L.A.”

As for whether or not or now no longer or now no longer they’ll seem in the imminent Marvel movie, which has but to be named, Holland stated in his Variety interview, “If they are, they haven’t informed me but. That’s a few thing Marvel might do. ‘So, that’s who that tennis ball became into!’” He mentioned that he hopes Maguire, 45, and Garfield, 37, “experience our movies.”
Filming for Spider-Man 3 commenced in October 2020 after being now no longer on time due to coronavirus. Holland all set out that he arrived in Atlanta in order to start running at the undertake of the sequence of Instagram stories. Even shared on the time. “It’s time for Spider-Man 3,” he stated within the clip. “Let’s go!” Jamie Foxx, who performed Electro in a previous Spider-Man film, is about to seem within the comedian book-based totally totally film, in accordance to Entertainment Weekly.  Jake Gyllenhaal confronting off with Holland as Mysterio, can even take his part.

Chicago: Cop Accused of Shooting A 22-year-old Man While Inebriated

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Chicago: Cop Accused of Shooting A 22-year-old Man While Inebriated

A Chicago police officer faces charges of attempted murder in connection with a case of an off-duty shooting in which he allegedly confronted a couple while intoxicated. 

Joseph Cabrera, 38, an eight-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department is accused of shooting at a 22-year-old man, who was not injured, and of lying about what happened by claiming that “he had been attacked and knocked to the ground’ before he opened fire, court records show. But a witness who was walking a dog refuted Cabrera’s account. 

Because of Cabrera’s ‘false statement,’ the 22-year-old man was ‘treated as an offender’ and placed into custody, prosecutors said. The man was later released without charges. 

Cabrera was taken to a hospital when he complained of chest pains and was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.104 — more than twice the legal limit for driving, prosecutors said. 

New York Assembly Passes Resolution Declaring February 5 As “Kashmir American Day”

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New York Assembly Passes Resolution Declaring February 5 As “Kashmir American Day”

In a controversial move, the New York State Assembly passed a resolution calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to declare February 5 as Kashmir American Day. The NY Assembly’s move has been met with criticism in India as officials here noted with ‘concern’ the attempts being made by ‘vested interests’ to misrepresent Jammu and Kashmir’s rich cultural and social mosaic. 

The legislative resolution, adopted in the New York State Assembly on February 3, calls on Cuomo to proclaim February 5, 2021 as Kashmir American Day in the State of New York. 

Pakistan has been trying to drum up international support against India after Article 370 was abrogated in Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019. 

Meanwhile, India has firmly told Pakistan that the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been, is, and shall continue to be an integral part of India. New Delhi has maintained that issues related to Jammu and Kashmir are internal matters to India. 

SpaceX Wins Contract to Launch NASA’s Astrophysics Mission

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SpaceX Wins Contract to Launch NASA’s Astrophysics Mission

NASA has selected tech billionaire Elon Musk’s private aerospace company SpaceX to provide launch services for an astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light. 

The planned two-year mission is called SPHEREx, short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer. 

The mission currently is targeted to launch as early as June 2024 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. 

The total cost for NASA to launch SPHEREx is approximately $98.8 million, which includes the launch service and other mission related costs 

The near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies, according to NASA. 

SPHEREx will also search for water and organic molecules – essentials for life as we know it – in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming, the US space agency said this week.

Largest Known Asteroid To Fly Past Earth In 2021

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Largest Known Asteroid To Fly Past Earth In 2021

The largest asteroid to fly past the Earth this year is set to make a close approach to our planet on March 21. Known as 2001 FO32, the asteroid is an enormous rock which is classified as a near-Earth object (NEO) and it is orbiting the Sun in close proximity to the Earth. NEOs are those celestial objects that are on a path which can potentially take them within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. The US space agency NASA has said that about 25,000 NEOs have been identified till now, including a handful of comets and a vast number of asteroids. 

As per NASA, potentially hazardous NEOs are those which have a diameter larger than 460 feet and have orbits approaching the Earth’s orbit to within 4.6 million miles. These NEOs are classified as potentially hazardous because they have orbits that come close to that of the Earth. Due to the gravitational pull of several planets, the paths of asteroids keep changing, and there is a possibility that over centuries and millennia, the changes in the orbits of these potentially hazardous NEOs cause them to cross the orbit of the Earth. This makes it important to track these asteroids over the coming decades to study the development in their orbits and any possible changes in their paths. 

As per this definition of potentially hazardous NEOs, 2001 FO32 fits into this category, and its diameter is estimated to measure between 2,526 feet and 5,577 feet. The asteroid will come within a distance of 1.3 million miles of the Earth. 

Biden Cancels Trump’s Nomination Of Indian American As Judge

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Biden Cancels Trump’s Nomination Of Indian American As Judge

NEW YORK: US President Joe Biden has cancelled the nomination of Vijay Shanker to be a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington. 

The White House on Thursday informed the Senate that it was withdrawing his nomination, which was made by former President Donald Trump in June. The Senate did not take up Shankar’s nomination while Trump was in office and the Republican party had the majority. 

His was one of 32 nominations, 17 of them for judges, that were held over from the Trump administration and pulled back by Biden. 

When Trump nominated him, Shankar was the deputy chief of the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division at the Justice Department. 

He investigated and prosecuted violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related offenses and oversaw 30 lawyers who handle federal criminal appeals and draft Supreme Court briefs. He was simultaneously an adjunct associate professor at the Washington College of Law of the American University. (IANS) 

Agreement Between US And Taliban Has No Element Of Peace, Says Haqqani

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Agreement Between US And Taliban Has No Element Of Peace, Says Haqqani

The agreement between the US and the Taliban has no element of peace and is basically a withdrawal pact for American troops from war-torn Afghanistan, a former Pakistani diplomat has said.

‘As a longtime critic of the US and Taliban agreement, I see it as a withdrawal agreement with no elements of peace. The Taliban were made to commit to only one thing, that they would enter intra-Afghan talks, not that they would agree to peace,’ Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani Ambassador to the US, said on Friday during a virtual event.

The Trump administration signed the peace deal with the Taliban in February last year in Doha. The accord drew up plans for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in exchange for security guarantees from the insurgent group. As part of the deal, the US committed to withdrawing its 12,000 troops within 14 months. There are currently only 2,500 American troops left in the country.

US Halts Asylum Seeker Pact With Guatemala

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US Halts Asylum Seeker Pact With Guatemala

The US government has ended a controversial deal with Guatemala that sent asylum seekers processed at the US- Mexico border to the Central American Country to await hearings, Guatemala’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday. The ministry said it had been informed by US Officials of the cancellation of the program that was initiated under the administration of the former president Donald Trump.

The agreement with Guatemala was signed in 2019, just as similar pacts were negotiated with El Salvador and Honduras, all in a bid by Trump to force other countries in the region to help the United States alleviate a surge of asylum-seekers arriving at the US Southern border by agreeing to take them in for prolonged waits.

The pacts were sharply criticized by rights groups which said they added to the misery of the asylum-seekers.

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Shares Incredible Image Of A Supernova Remnant

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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Shares Incredible Image Of A Supernova Remnant

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope that has been designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes. Since X-rays are absorbed by Earth’s atmosphere, Chandra must orbit above it.

The official Instagram page of NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory recently shared an image of a supernova remnant “SNR 0103- 72.6”. The caption shared by NASA on the image states, “Oxygen is one of the most abundant #elements in supernova remnant 0103- 72.6. #Oxygen is created by nuclear reactions in the interiors of #stars at least ten times as massive as our sun. When such a star explodes, its core collapses to form either a neutron star, or if massive enough, a #BlackHole, and the material surrounding the core is propelled into interstellar #space.”

Supernova Remnants (SNRs) are extremely important for understanding our galaxy. They heat up the interstellar medium, distribute heavy elements throughout the galaxy and accelerate cosmic rays.

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