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Today's featured article {{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 28, 2025}} Did you know... Rika Nakagawa ... that Rika Nakagawa (pictured) won a national debate competition as an active tarento? ... that in 1989 the Barcelona women's second football team was knocked out of the Catalan Cup in the same round as the Barcelona women's first team? ... that Tuhi Martukaw led youth delegations to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for ten years in a row? ... that unused placeholder sounds from Smash Hit were reused in Teardown? ... that announcers at a Virginia radio station were warned that playing more than three rap songs an hour could get them fired? ... that of the 16 aircraft which took part in the Doolittle Raid, only the one piloted by Edward J. York landed intact? ... that "Bed Chem" and "Juno" are the "horniest" tracks on Short n' Sweet, according to one critic? ... that Moses Benjamin Wulff founded a printing press that reprinted The Guide for the Perplexed for the first time in centuries? ... that New York City's Queens Zoo once received a lion cub despite having no lion enclosure?

In the news Shigeru Ishiba Shigeru Ishiba (pictured) becomes Prime Minister of Japan after winning the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election. Amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, Israel invades Lebanon, and Iran launches missiles against Israel. Flooding in Nepal leaves more than 250 people dead, including 37 in the nation's capital, Kathmandu. In Australian rules football, the Brisbane Lions defeat the Sydney Swans to win the AFL Grand Final. Hurricane Helene leaves more than 200 people dead across the southeastern United States. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Dikembe Mutombo Richard S. Hamilton Abbas Nilforoushan Ozzie Virgil Sr. Michael Sladek Roy Clay On this day... {{Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 28}}

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