Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison
UPDATE: Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison, for the murders of his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, and hiss son Paul…
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Who actually invented the lightbulb—and the illuminating history of modern lighting
LED Lighting Supply looked at the history of electric lighting, from early incandescent lightbulbs to LED…
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Cities with the fastest ‘time-to-crime’ rates for firearms
Stacker compiled gun crime data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on 40 cities across the U.S. and ranked them by…
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After slight delay, SpaceX astronaut capsule docks at space station
By Jackie Wattles, CNN A crew of astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station, concluding a one-day trip…
Continue Reading Boreal forests could be a planet-warming ‘time bomb’ as wildfires expand, says new study
By Jack Guy, CNN The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have…
Continue Reading Newly discovered hummingbird looks like it’s wearing a golden collar
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru’s Cordillera Azul National Park,…
Continue Reading New image captures a supernova first observed in the year 185
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new telescope image has shed light on the ghostly remains of the first recorded supernova. More than 1,800 years ago, in…
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Senate passes Covid Origins Act
The U.S. Senate has passed legislation that could reveal more information about the origins of Covid-19. Lawmakers passed the Covid Origins Act of…
Continue Reading Move over, artificial intelligence. Scientists announce a new ‘organoid intelligence’ field
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Computers powered by human brain cells may sound like science fiction, but a team of researchers in the United States…
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White House looks to put cybersecurity pressure on companies
The White House on Thursday released its national cybersecurity strategy, detailing an effort to increase regulation of critical industries by making…
Continue Reading Sea monsters? This bizarre whale feeding technique may explain some ancient folklore
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Scientists are puzzling over a strange feeding technique that they think whales recently began using: The creatures swim to…
Continue Reading SpaceX launches international crew of astronauts on space station mission
By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a fresh crew of astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station, kicking off a roughly…
Continue Reading Hubble Space Telescope captured ‘movie’ of spacecraft slamming into asteroid
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid on September 26, the collision caused the space rock to…
Continue Reading Why the northern and southern lights appear to be so active right now
By Katie Hunt, CNN The breathtaking dancing shimmer of the aurora borealis and its counterpart in the southern hemisphere, aurora australis, dazzles…
Continue Reading Two planets will appear to ‘kiss’ in the sky tonight
By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN Jupiter and Venus will appear very close together in the night sky on Wednesday, with the two planets set to…
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US Postal Service plans to buy EV Ford delivery vehicles
The United States Postal Service (USPS) says its revving up its plans to modernize the nation’s largest federal fleet of vehicles. Tuesday the USPS…
Continue Reading SUVs produced more planet-heating pollution than most countries last year, new figures show
By Laura Paddison, CNN While global car sales might have fallen in 2022, one type of car, with an especially large climate footprint, had a great…
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The deadliest accidental explosions ever recorded
Stacker compiled information from historical archives, accident reports, and country records to find some of the most deadly nonnuclear accidental…
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20 photos of shipwrecks from WWI and WWII
Stacker compiled research from news sites, wreckage databases, and local diving centers to provide context for a series of striking images of WWI and…
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How women’s rights in the US have been eroded since the last time we celebrated women’s history month
Stacker looked at how women’s rights in the U.S. have been eroded since the last women’s history…
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Biden, Trump, and Pence: how their classified documents scandals are the same (and different)
Stacker investigated the Trump, Biden, and Pence classified document scandals using a variety of news and government…
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FBI Director Wray acknowledges bureau assessment that Covid-19 likely resulted from lab incident
Originally Published: 28 FEB 23 20:46 ETUpdated: 28 FEB 23 23:44 ETBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Christopher…
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At least 29 dead, 85 injured as trains collide in Greece
Originally Published: 28 FEB 23 20:34 ETUpdated: 28 FEB 23 22:18 ETBy Heather Chen, Chris Liakos, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jennifer Hauser,…
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Bipartisan lawmakers warn of China threat at select committee’s first hearing
Originally Published: 28 FEB 23 19:45 ETBy Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Bipartisan lawmakers warned of the threat posed by the…
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Supreme Court to consider fate of Biden’s student loan relief plan
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will take up two challenges to President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. This program is an…
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Hong Kong scraps mask mandate after nearly three years
Originally Published: 27 FEB 23 20:48 ETUpdated: 27 FEB 23 21:32 ETBy Jessie Yeung and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Hong…
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FDA authorizes the first At-Home test for COVID-19 and the Flu
The Food and Drug Administration has approved an at-home test Friday, that can check for both Covid-19 and influenza. It’s made by California Biotech…
Continue Reading SpaceX, NASA astronaut launch to International Space Station called off at last minute
By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA have called off an astronaut launch to the International Space Station after an issue with the rocket’s…
Continue Reading How ’15-minute cities’ turned into an international conspiracy theory
By Laura Paddison, CNN Duncan Enright never imagined he’d get death threats over a plan to reduce grinding city traffic. But it is exactly what…
Continue Reading Amsterdam’s train tunnels reveal surprising windows into the past
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists have long believed our planet is built upon four layers of rocks, minerals and magma deposited over millions of…
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