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BBC
Spain mourns as death toll passes 150 in catastrophic floods: At least 158 people have died in Spain's worst flooding disaster in decades as rescuers race to find victims.
'We all know someone who has died' - the town in Valencia devastated by floods: The BBC has visited Paiporta, Valencia, where dozens of people have been confirmed dead.
Faisal Islam: Rachel Reeves doesn’t mind if you don't like her Budget: The Budget is about the long game on the economy and Reeves believes the current pain is a price worth paying.
Private schools vote for legal action over VAT plans: The Independent Schools Council, which represents 1,400 schools, votes to proceed with legal action.

CBC
The counting still isn't done in B.C.'s election. Here's what happens next:

The B.C. NDP is awaiting the outcome of judicial recounts in two electoral ridings to find out what form its government will soon take on. It needs to win at least one of the ridings to secure a majority.

Are some rents in Canada part of a price-fixing scheme?:

One large Canadian landlord has stopped using software to help set rent prices after CBC News began an investigation. The software is called YieldStar, and it's under federal investigation in the United States and the subject of a lawsuit from the Department of Justice for collusion, price-fixing and artificially inflating American rents.

Judge grants bail to Quebec woman accused of scalding child:

A judge has granted bail to a Quebec woman charged with aggravated assault after she allegedly scalded a 10-year-old Black boy with hot water earlier this month.

New York Times Science
Two Black Holes are Giving the Cosmos a Fright: The ghosts of stars are up to their usual mischief.

Fossil Reveals Oldest Known Tadpole That Grew to the Size of a Hot Dog: A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found.

Was Stone-Age Scandinavia Struck by Plague?: New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago.

Harris Took Steady Approach to Space as Chair of White House Council: As chair of the White House’s National Space Council, the vice president largely emphasized continuity with policies set by the Trump administration.

Some Geologists Argue Earth Has Fewer Than Seven Continents: Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school.


Visualizing Science

The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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