“It’s an incredibly strange phenomenon,” he said. “We only discovered them 10 years ago, when we could use a particular set of technologies to detect the start and end locations of the of lightning events.” Megaflashes are not altogether uncommon, but they typically only occur in parts of the world where specific geographical and atmospheric…
Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday that she is releasing a memoir about her failed 2024 presidential campaign, which was launched just over one year ago. “It was intense, high stakes and deeply personal for me and for so many of you,” she said in a video posted to X. “Since leaving office, I’ve…
A mouth-watering slice of American life arrived via special delivery from Chicago to Rome on Wednesday, landing in the blessed hands of a local boy who made good. Pope Leo XIV was gifted a personal-size pie from Aurelio’s, a Chicagoland pie that’s been a longtime favorite of former Cardinal Robert Prevost, who went on to…
ROME — Stealth submarines fitted with space-shooting lasers, supply-chain sabotage and custom-built attack satellites armed with ion thrusters. Those are just some of the strategies Chinese scientists have been developing to counter what Beijing sees as a potent threat: Elon Musk’ s armada of Starlink communications satellites. Chinese government and military scientists, concerned about Starlink’s…
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LONDON — A 76-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of administering poison after children fell ill at a summer camp in central England, police said in a statement Thursday. Eight children were taken to the hospital, police in Leicestershire, a county around 100 miles north of London, said. All of them have since been…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department issued a memo on Wednesday that asked recipients of federal funds to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which President Donald Trump has aimed to dismantle since taking office in January. Trump has passed executive orders aimed at restricting DEI but Wednesday’s memo laid out specific examples of actions…
A man was mauled to death by two dogs while working at a Mississippi animal shelter, local news outlets reported. The employee, Clifford Phillips Jr., 57, was trying to put a dog in a pen that was already occupied when he was attacked, his friend told WREG of Memphis, Tennessee. The incident occurred on July…
NEW YORK — Fireflies are lighting up summer evenings across the U.S. Northeast, putting on dazzling shows in backyards and city parks. There’s no official count, but experts say a particularly wet spring may have created the ideal conditions for young fireflies to grow into adults to set summer nights aglow. Fireflies light the night…
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