There isn’t much to see when peeling off I-35 South at Exit 40, one of the freeway’s final exits before Fort Worth blends into Burleson. The frontage roads are boxed in by truck yards, fast food joints, and a warehouse-shaped church. Subdivisions and soon-to-be developed ranch land stretch farther beyond. But a roughly two-mile drive […]
A skyscraper-size asteroid discovered two weeks ago will zoom between Earth and the moon on Saturday (June 29). At its closest approach, the space rock will pass within roughly 184,000 miles (295,000 kilometers) of our planet — about three-quarters the average distance between Earth and the moon. The asteroid, named 2024 MK, is estimated to […]
At a rally in North Carolina on Friday, President Joe Biden brought the energy that Democrats were hoping to see at Thursday’s night’s catastrophic debate with Donald Trump. Speaking in a clear, booming voice over a crowd of supporters, Biden acknowledged the elephant in the room: His stumble-filled debate performance alarmed voters, many of whom […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s president inaugurated a new parliament on Thursday after national elections, listing the priorities of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in coming years, including fast-tracking economic reforms and boosting small and medium-size enterprises to create jobs. President Draupadi Murmu said India’s economy grew the fastest among the world’s major nations at […]
A 25-year-old video has come to light of a man identified by the FBI as a Saudi intelligence agent filming locations in the center of Washington three months before Al-Qaida decided to carry out the 9/11 attacks. The footage, shot in the summer of 1999 and in the possession of the FBI, was unsealed in […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A 3,300-year-old ship has been discovered at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, making it one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered and rewriting our understanding of sailing in the ancient world, according to the Israel […]
Sen. Tim Kaine’s reelection campaign came out swinging against his newly crowned Republican opponent Hung Cao, in Kaine’s first ad of the General Election on Wednesday. The ad highlights some of Cao’s most prominent gaffs on the primary campaign trail, including his use of a pejorative against the Staunton News Leader after the paper reported […]
Officials in Florida have released new body camera footage that shows first responders at the scene of an alligator attack that left a woman dead in Pinellas County last year. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) was called to the scene last September and found the body of 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham. After the […]
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In the early 1900s, Antarctica became a hot spot for explorers undertaking intrepid but dangerous expeditions. Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 men set off aboard the […]
The Rev. Clint Pressley woke up Thursday morning praying for the Southern Baptist Convention, he told his 9,000 followers on social media site X, the former Twitter. “Pray I don’t embarrass us,” the Charlotte pastor quipped. The morning before, Pressley was elected president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination during its annual meeting in Indianapolis. […]
SEASIDE, Ore. – A massive ocean oddity that washed up on a northern Oregon beach last week turned out to be a recently discovered species of sunfish, according to the local aquarium. According to the Seaside Aquarium, a 7.3-foot sunfish was found on Gearhart Beach, north of Seaside, Oregon, on June 3. “Initially, this large, […]
By Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – – An unidentified hacking group launched a massive cyberattack on a telecommunications company in the U.S. heartland late last year that disabled hundreds of thousands of internet routers, according to research published Thursday. Security analysts with Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs discovered the attack in recent months and reported […]