NASA’s newest telescope has captured the first image of a planet outside our solar system, also known as an exoplanet and this one is named HIP 65426 b. It’s what’s known as a gas giant, and has 6-to-12 times the mass of Jupiter. The planet is also an interstellar baby at only 15-to-20 million years
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(CNN) — One student is dead and two others were injured after an apparent stabbing attack Thursday at a high school in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Jacksonville Police said a student resource officer at Northside High School requested assistance around 7 a.m. after a physical altercation between students broke out inside one of the school’s common
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A judge is set to hear arguments this afternoon related to the search of Former President Donald Trump’s home. Attorneys for Trump and the Justice Department are due in court today. Trump wants a special master to review documents the F.B.I. seized from his home. Trump’s filing doesn’t address obstruction allegations made by the D.O.J. but it
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President Biden is set to give a speech tonight on what he calls “The Continued Battle for the Soul of the Nation” during a primetime address in Pennsylvania. White House officials say Biden will touch on what’s at stake in our democracy as well as the progress his administration has made in protecting the nation’s
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Donovan Lewis, 20, died after being shot by Columbus Police Officer Ricky Anderson, a 30-year veteran with the Columbus Division of Police assigned to the K9 Unit, according to a police statement.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election to fill Alaska’s House seat for the remainder of 2022, according to unofficial results released by the Alaska Division of Elections, thwarting former Gov. Sarah Palin’s bid at a political comeback — at least for a few months. Peltola emerged as the victor Wednesday when Alaska’s Division of
Continue Reading By Pete Muntean, CNN Major US airlines have updated their customer service agreements following pressure from the Biden administration to step up consumer rights in the wake of a summer plagued by flight cancellations and delays. American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue and Southwest (pdf) have all published updates to their customer service
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Artemis is going for try number two. NASA will try again Saturday to launch the inaugural flight in the Artemis mission. It was first planned for Monday morning but had to be scrubbed when the team had trouble cooling one of the rocket’s four engines. Engineers have now made some changes to the propellant loading
Continue Reading By Brandon Miller, Judson Jones, Sophia Saifi and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Striking new satellite images that reveal the extent of Pakistan’s record flooding show how an overflowing Indus River has turned part of Sindh Province into a 100 kilometer-wide inland lake. Swaths of the country are now underwater, after what United Nation officials have described
Continue Reading By Ellie Kaufman and Barbara Starr, CNN The US Navy prevented an Iranian ship from capturing an American maritime drone in the Persian gulf overnight Monday into Tuesday local time in what a senior US commander called a “flagrant” and “unwarranted” incident. While US forces in the region were transiting international waters around 11 p.m.
Continue Reading By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Most people in the United States take it for granted that when you turn on a faucet, you get potable water. People in Jackson, Mississippi, are now coping with what happens when there’s no water to drink, cook with, bathe or even flush a toilet. Mississippi’s capital city has long had
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(CNN) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union before its dissolution, has died in Moscow at the age of 92, according to official statements. Gorbachev, whose tumultuous rule was associated with the terms perestroika and glasnost (reform and openness) died after a long illness, Russian state news agencies reported. “Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening after
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Thousands of tomatoes were left covering the highway after a tomato truck crashed on California’s Interstate 80 on Monday, leaving three people injured, according to officials. The crash occurred in Vacaville, California, according to a tweet from the California Highway Patrol. The tomato truck driver lost control and hit another car
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Biden’s addressing public safety today during a week of high-profile crimes news that includes gangs targeting celebrities. Gun violence and public safety are in the limelight today. The White House says the President will address those issues while visiting Pennsylvania. The trip comes during a week of high-profile crime news. Biden is ready to talk
Continue Reading By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden will travel to Philadelphia on Thursday for a primetime speech on “the continued battle for the soul of the nation” in front of Independence Hall, the White House said Monday. The speech will come a week after the President returned to the campaign trail with a fiery speech
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Raja Razek, CNN A gunman who killed two people and injured five others — including two police officers — in Phoenix on Sunday was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and wearing tactical gear, according to authorities. The shooter, who police said appears to have died by suicide, was also found with
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UPDATE: The Artemis I launch has been scrubbed after the team was unable to work through an issue on one of the rocket’s four engines. “Launch controllers were continuing to evaluate why a bleed test to get the RS-25 engines on the bottom of the core stage to the proper temperature range for liftoff was
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SpaceX and T-Mobile are teaming up in an attempt to end mobile dead zones. The plan is to use SpaceX’s satellite-based internet business, Starlink, to provide complete cellular connectivity anywhere in the world, but only for those with T-Mobile service. The plan will rely on upgraded satellites that are not expected to be launched before
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By Josh Campbell, CNN US Secret Service investigators have seized $286 million in illegally obtained coronavirus pandemic relief funds, the agency announced Friday. An investigation run by the service’s Orlando, Florida, field office determined conspirators fraudulently submitted small business pandemic relief loan applications “using fabricated or stolen employment and personal information,” the agency said. The
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb, CNN The FBI told a judge that there was “probable cause to believe” that classified national security materials were improperly taken to “unauthorized” locations at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, and that a search would also likely find “evidence of obstruction,” according to a redacted version of the
Continue Reading CNN By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The US has a jobs problem: There are too many of them. There are currently around two jobs available for every unemployed person, and as a result, employers have had to raise wages to attract suitable candidates. That sounds like a good thing — and it is for Americans
Continue Reading By Geneva Sands, CNN The Department of Homeland Security has officially disbanded its controversial disinformation board, months after it was put on pause amid intense Republican-led backlash. In May, the department’s “Disinformation Governance Board” initiative was halted after weeks of attacks, including those aimed at the disinformation expert appointed to lead the effort. The board
Continue Reading By Ben Morse and Matt Foster, CNN Twenty-one time grand slam champion Novak Djokovic has announced his absence from the upcoming US Open via a Twitter post on Thursday. Djokovic has remained unvaccinated against Covid-19 throughout the pandemic, and current US rules stipulate that any non-US citizen must be fully vaccinated against the virus in
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The Biden administration on Wednesday took another step to try to preserve the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay and work in the country. The program has protected more than 800,000 of those immigrants, known as ‘Dreamers’
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California is expected to ban new gasoline car sales by 2035. The California Air Resources Board will vote on the measure this afternoon. If it passes, it would be one of the first such bans worldwide. The vote comes after Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order in 2020 mandating that all vehicles sold in the state
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jury finds Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million over photos of his body at helicopter crash site. (CNN) — [Breaking news update at 7:07 p.m. ET]A verdict has been reached in the federal civil suit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff and Fire Departments over photos taken
Continue Reading CNN, WESH By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old community organizer, will win the Democratic nomination in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, CNN projects, and could become the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. He bested a crowded field of candidates looking to replace Democratic Rep. Val Demings in an Orlando-based district, including
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More than 100 years ago Bessie Coleman became the first black woman to earn a pilot’s license in 1921. She broke down barriers in the world of aviation and paving the way for others. In honor of her legacy, American Airlines hosted the Bessie Coleman Aviation All-Stars tour this week to celebrate the 100th anniversary
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It’s being called a once in a century weather event. Today, it could be re-classified as even more rare. Storms have been causing deadly floods in southern states. The storms that caused this dangerous flooding in Utah, Arizona and Texas are stalled in east Texas and forecast to bring more rain today. They’re also stretching
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By Katelyn Polantz and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has asked a federal judge to appoint a “special master” to ensure the Justice Department returns any of his private documents seized during the search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago. Trump is asking for a special master — a third-party attorney —
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