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Today's riddle: Why do fish live in salt water? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Greenbelt Back as FBI Home; Court Rejects 'Unlawful' Plan (greenbeltnewsreview.com) — A federal judge has reinstated Greenbelt as the likely site of the new FBI headquarters, overturning a Trump-era plan to move the project into downtown D.C. Maryland officials say the decision restores hundreds of millions in funding and could bring thousands of jobs and billions in economic impact to Prince George's County, with Greenbelt at the center of the project.
2. Greenbelt Rotary Recognizes City's Outstanding Citizens (greenbeltnewsreview.com) — Greenbelt residents recently honored 11 past Outstanding Citizens at a packed Community Center event hosted by the Greenbelt Rotary Club, ahead of naming the 2026 honoree at Labor Day. Speakers reflected on decades of volunteer work, from environmental projects and youth programs to the Greenbelt News Review and Labor Day Festival, and invited Outstanding Citizens to help preserve local history through new oral history interviews.
3. Rescue mission is called off for NASA's aging Swift space telescope (newser.com) — NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt plays a key role in a now-canceled mission to rescue the aging Swift space telescope, whose instruments were shut down earlier this year. After technical problems with a private rescue spacecraft, Swift is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere, while Goddard-based teams and partners pivot to testing future satellite-saving technologies.
4. Ex-Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty on COVID-Related Charges (newser.com) — A former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci will be sentenced in federal court in Greenbelt this November after pleading guilty to conspiring to conceal federal records tied to COVID-19 research grants. Prosecutors say Dr. David Morens used private email and destroyed documents to evade transparency laws, while House Republicans' probe into the pandemic's origins helped bring his actions to light.
5. Former Fauci adviser pleads guilty to conspiring to conceal COVID records (detroitnews.com) — Federal court in Greenbelt was the setting Tuesday as former Fauci adviser David Morens pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade public records laws on COVID-19 research grants. He faces up to five years in prison, while intelligence agencies and politicians continue to clash over the pandemic's origins and lab-leak theories.
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