(Bloomberg) — The Carter Center will deploy a team to observe Venezuela’s elections next month after the exclusion of European Union observers led to concerns about the legitimacy of the results. Most Read from Bloomberg The Atlanta-based organization on Wednesday accepted an invitation that Venezuela’s electoral authority extended in March, according to Jennie Lincoln, its […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers are witnessing a never-before-seen spectacle in the cosmos: the awakening of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. In late 2019, a team of astronomers took notice of an otherwise […]
Venezuela’s election authorities on Tuesday revoked an invitation to a European Union (EU) mission to observe the country’s upcoming presidential election, in which president Nicolas Maduro is seeking reelection. National Electoral Council head Elvis Amoroso cited economic sanctions imposed by the EU as the reason for withdrawing the invitation. The EU had not yet accepted […]
An innovative telescope design has proven successful for daytime skywatching, opening new doors for uninterrupted observation of the cosmos. Astronomers at Macquarie University in Australia have developed a new technique using light filters on the school’s multi-lens Huntsman Telescope. Originally designed for ultra-sensitive night sky observations, the telescope has demonstrated an ability to accurately measure […]
Memorial Day is almost here, and luckily for Delawareans, the First State is one of the best places for marking the holiday. Memorial Day is observed annually on the last Monday in May. This year, the holiday falls on Monday, May 27. It serves as a day of remembrance to honor those who died while serving […]
Israel is on Monday commemorating the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Holocaust, as the Palestinian Islamist Hamas group holds more than 100 hostages from Israel. On Monday morning, sirens blared for two minutes across the country to commemorate the catastrophe. Cars stopped on the streets and […]
MADISON – The Republican National Committee and Trump campaign plan to deploy tens of thousands of volunteers and attorneys to monitor and challenge voting processes in battleground states, including Wisconsin — an effort rooted in the former president’s false election claims, characterized as safeguarding from “Democrat tricks from 2020.” GOP officials say they plan to […]
For the first time in her life, 15-year-old Jannat Anjum will get to celebrate Eid-al-Fitr on Wednesday the way she’s always seen her classmates celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and other holidays: She’ll get it off from school. “I’m so excited,” Anjum said. “And I know a lot of Muslim kids are extremely happy. Eid is a […]
Get your eclipse glasses ready and plan out your viewing experience for next month’s solar eclipse. Unlike the partial eclipse last October, the April 8 one will completely block the sun. While California will not be among the 13 states part of the 115-mile path of totality, the Great American Eclipse is something you can’t […]
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A slowly cooling stellar ember called a white dwarf with a scar on its face is providing new insight into the behavior of certain “cannibal” stars at the end of their life cycle. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Chile-based Very Large Telescope, researchers studied a white dwarf located about […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A revolutionary new satellite that will provide an unprecedented look at Earth’s microscopic marine life and tiny atmospheric particles is ready to launch. The NASA PACE, or Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem, mission is set […]
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Saturday to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to promote compassion and dialogue amid the Israel-Hamas war. The gathering was organized by the center preserving memory of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust — the massacre in the […]