Antartica’s Thwaites Glacier is also known as the “Doomsday Glacier” because it could greatly contribute to sea level rise if it collapses. And new evidence suggests that’s exactly what’s happening. Miles and miles below the surface, the glacier is destabilizing as ocean water rushes underneath its core structures. Scientists learned this thanks to high-resolution satellite radar […]
Political candidates and their parties usually expend time, effort, money, and other resources seeking to encourage voter turnout by their supporters. But the Republican National Committee (RNC), in league with the campaign of former President Trump, has a different take on that practice. Marshall Tanick Rather than boosting their own turnout, they’re aiming at suppressing […]
The Village of Dolton in Illinois voted Monday to hire former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot as a “Special Investigator” to look into Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard. Starting Tuesday, Lightfoot will be paid $400 an hour to gather information on Henyard’s alleged spending and finance mismanagement as well as “any state and federal violations.” Ahead of […]
Carol and Jeff Starr celebrated their daughter’s wedding last month with a bit of irony: neither was wearing their own wedding rings at the ceremony. Thieves had broken into their Southern California home last spring and cleaned out a safe full of jewelry. “They hit the jackpot,” Carol Starr told CNN. The couple had locked their own rings […]
Fortnite is no longer just for kids, if it ever was. Once a stomping ground for school kids and teenage millionaires, the video game now boasts over 500 million registered player accounts worldwide, 100 million of which were active players in November 2023. Not all of them are teenage gamers — they’re also working parents, […]
FIRST ON FOX – Missouri police say a group of six people, including two young children, who follow a popular online spirituality influencer, disappeared from the St. Louis area on Aug. 13, 2023. The Berkeley Police Department is searching for Mikayla Thompson, 25, of St. Louis; Naaman Williams, 30, of Washington, D.C.; Gerrielle German, 27, […]
Dec. 29 (UPI) — South Korea’s superconducting fusion device and so-called artificial sun, KSTAR, has received upgrades that will allow it to run for longer periods of time. The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy said Friday it had successfully installed a new tungsten divertor for its magnetic fusion device, KSTAR, which will allow it to […]
A convicted murderer who was known as the “Killer Poet” passed away Wednesday night at Tewksbury Hospital, less than two years after the Massachusetts Parole Board signed off on his medical release from prison, sources told Boston 25′s Bob Ward. Norman Porter, who was found responsible for the 1960 murder of 21-year-old store clerk John […]