Last month, auroras that may have been the strongest in the past 500 years wowed observers around the world for a full weekend. Now, a space probe has revealed just how chaotic the sun was during this historic light show. Images of the sun’s disk by India’s Aditya-L1 spacecraft, the country’s first-ever solar mission, a […]
The famous eruption that shot fountains of lava high into the sky on the island of Hawaiʻi in 2018 is teaching scientists what volcanoes are capable of. The unique series of 12 outbursts, which destroyed at least 700 homes and displaced more than 2,000 people, could represent a whole new explosive volcanic mechanism. “A cool […]
Gary Lineker, the BBC’s chief political commentator, believes it’s unfair that he receives so much criticism for his comments on Israel and Gaza. “The minute you raise your voice against what they’re now doing there,” he complained during an interview with the Left-wing journalist Mehdi Hasan, “you get accused of being a supporter of Hamas.” […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The sister of one of the suspect’s in the Kansas City Chiefs rally shooting was detained by deputies after an outburst in court. Lyndell Mays appeared before a Jackson County judge Thursday afternoon for a bond hearing. Mays is charged with second-degree murder for the February 14 shooting that ended the […]
Rachel Maddow apologized to journalists sitting near her at Donald Trump’s trial Monday in Manhattan after she “snorted out loud” when prosecutors revealed that one of the former president’s advisors had physically written down the very hush-money reimbursement plan that the jury is considering for criminal charges. Maddow was in the cramped, dingy courtroom on […]
Transit Police say a routine transaction led to a violent attack targeting a McDonald’s employee doing his job in Boston. It happened around 7 p.m. Saturday at the fast-food location inside South Station. The suspect, identified by police as 34-year-old Odair Andrade, allegedly got mad after the employee touched the lid of his drink. According […]
Mikel Arteta believes Premier League officiating has improved since his “strong” criticism of VAR following Arsenal’s defeat at Newcastle in November. The Spaniard labelled the decision to allow Anthony Gordon’s goal to stand in a 1-0 loss at St James’ Park as “embarrassing” and a “disgrace”. Arteta was later charged by the FA for breaking […]
An extreme eruption from a young star that resembles the sun suggests budding planets have to exist in a rather savage environment. A team of scientists from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) used the Submillimeter Array (SMA), an array of telescopes on Maunakea in Hawaii, to observe the young star HD 283572. The crew watched as HD […]
Earlier this week, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk endorsed a tweet suggesting Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have lower IQs and shouldn’t become pilots. “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE,” he tweeted, intentionally mixing up the letters of the […]
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday launched into an extended tirade during the closing arguments in his New York fraud trial. Trump attorney Chris Kise asked Judge Arthur Engoron to allow Trump to speak on his own behalf after the judge rescinded permission for the former president to deliver part of his closing argument because […]