Scientists attribute several extreme weather events to climate change. Clockwise from top left: a 2013 drought in New Zealand; fires in Los Angeles last month; a 2014 heat wave in Australia; flooding southeast of Paris in June. The goal of the research is to get sound scientific analysis to the public to help counter misinformation, deliberate or otherwise, about an event.
MUNCIE, Ind. — An eastern Indiana deputy prosecutor says two Muncie police officers were justified in shooting a man armed with a knife. Delaware County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Eric Hoffman said Monday that he made that determination after reviewing the state police investigation into the death of 31-year-old Larry Step of Muncie on June 4.
1 Mosque financing: A new foundation will be created to help finance mosques in France and keep out radical benefactors, the head of the French Muslim Council said Monday. Anouar Kbibech proposed the foundation would be used to fund the construction and running of mosques and would be financed by fees paid by businesses in the halal food sector. The debate about the financing of mosques in France was revived by last week’s slaying of an elderly priest in a Normandy church by two Islamic extremists. Читать дальше...
Hillary Clinton is a 3-to-1 favorite to win the White House over Donald Trump, according to CNN’s Political Prediction Market. Clinton’s odds for winning the race are at 75% compared to Trump’s at 25%, according to the market, an online game administered by the company Pivit, which functions like an online market and allows Internet […]
“Gawker endures.” That’s what Gawker Media founder Nick Denton wants the media world to know, even though he had to file for personal bankruptcy on Monday. “I have, as expected, had to join the company in bankruptcy,” he wrote in a memo to staffers. Denton is one of the defendants in Hulk Hogan’s invasion of […]
A major Supergirl cliffhanger has been resolved: Calista Flockhart will indeed return to the CBS CW series in Season 2 as Cat Grant. That’s the good news. The subpar news is that the actress will no longer be a series regular. Instead, she will recur as her schedule permits.
Читать дальше...An 18-year-old New Jersey man fatally shot with a knife in his hand left a “suicide by cop” note, prosecutors said Monday.
Miguel Sano is also out of the lineup as manager Paul Molitor tries to "get him back on track."
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Peyton Manning called it Von Miller's "world celebrity tour," a five-month jet-setting junket of television and dance studios, A-list parties and B-roll appearances.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Peyton Manning called it Von Miller's "world celebrity tour," a five-month jet-setting junket of television and dance studios, A-list parties and B-roll appearances.
Editor’s note: In his latest essay, Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Nigerian minister, a lawyer, politician, author, member of the PDP and a prominent opinion-maker, speaks about the oncoming elections in the USA and one of the most controversial candidates from the Republican party Donald Trump. Four months ago I wrote an essay titled “Mr. Trump […]
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Sand, sun and samba.
Sand, sun and samba.
More like Pokémon No, amirite?
If you opened up Pokémon Go in the last 48 hours and noticed something different, it's because there's been a big update.
Apple
At first, things seemed good. You can now re-customize your avatar!
That's super helpful for those of us whose clothes didn't match our team color.
Cartoon Network
But people quickly noticed something was amiss: The tracking footprints... Читать дальше...
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On a blazing summer day 50 years ago in Austin, a sniper wreaked unprecedented carnage on the campus of the University of Texas.
The gunman climbed the school's iconic Main Building, known as the Tower, armed with rifles, a sawed-off shotgun, and other firearms.
He then unleashed a methodical, 96-minute killing spree on the people below, killing 15 and injuring more than 30 others before Austin police officers shot him dead atop the tower.
The violence that day would be the first of its kind ... Читать дальше...
Doug G. Ware
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Groups aligned with the black advocacy movement issued a centralized agenda Monday that demands multiple systematic changes to U.S. justice and social systems.
A Perth woman has lost nearly $10,000 in the fall-out from a Northbridge-based travel agent, Global Plus Holidays, which has collapsed in July.
SolarCity has agreed to Tesla's offer to buy the solar panel installer, hurting both their share prices.
CLEVELAND — Andrew Miller isn’t concerned about his role in the Cleveland Indians’ bullpen. The dominating left-hander only wants to help his new team make a run at the postseason. Two days after he was acquired from the New York Yankees for four minor leaguers, Miller joined the Indians prior to Monday night’s game against
After years of anticipation, Frank Ocean‘s sophomore studio album Boys Don’t Cry is finally imminent. The 28-year-old singer/songwriter extraordinaire kind of sort of keeping his “July 2016” promise late Sunday night with a sudden stream of, well, of not much, Frank’s album will reportedly hit Apple Music this coming Friday, August 5. The New York Times broke the news Monday, reporting the album to be an Apple exclusive for two weeks, along with a physical magazine available in Apple Stores... Читать дальше...
While a labor dispute simmers at home, the U.S. women's national soccer team is set to travel across Brazil as the favorite to win its fourth straight Olympic gold medal.
While a labor dispute simmers at home, the U.S. women's national soccer team is set to travel across Brazil as the favorite to win its fourth straight Olympic gold medal.