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Star Trek losses, Meta settles, Alaska probe, Poland court standoff

Patrick Stewart began playing Picard in nineteen eighty-seven, and Walter Koenig sat beside George Takei on the Enterprise bridge, leaving William Shatner and Takei as the last originals.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwo giants of Star Trek are gone: Patrick Stewart, who began playing Captain Picard in nineteen eighty-seven, and Walter Koenig, who sat on the Enterprise bridge beside George Takei.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAkiva Goldsman, co-creator of Picard, says the captain permanently expanded the universe of Star Trek without measure.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWilliam Shatner and George Takei are the two original cast members still living.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIn other news, Meta has settled with a second teen plaintiff, days after jury selection began in a Los Angeles social media trial, which leaves Snap as the only defendant.

  5. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe trial opens next week.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe plaintiff is an eighteen-year-old woman from Mississippi, in one of several closely watched cases against social media platforms.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAlaska's top federal prosecutor, Michael Heyman, confirms there is a criminal investigation tied to a second Sullivan on the Senate ballot, listed as Daniel J.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSullivan Junior. He won't say what crimes or who the targets are.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo Sullivans, one ballot, four days out. Voters will need that IQ of one ninety.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoland's president, Karol Nawrocki, turned his plane around on the way to Senegal after police entered the Constitutional Tribunal and its president was suspended.

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