A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said. The female python weighed in at 215 pounds (98 kilograms), was nearly 18 feet long (5 meters) and had 122 developing eggs, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida said in a news release. The… Read More
NASA advances moon landing rocket
NASA said Thursday it has finished testing its huge moon rocket and will move it back to the launch pad in late August. A date for the first flight will be set after a leak that popped up during a dress rehearsal is fixed, the space agency said. Earlier this… Read More
[PIC] Archaeologists uncover unique Pompeii find
Archaeologists in Pompeii have discovered the remains of a pregnant tortoise that had sought refuge in the ruins of a home destroyed by an earthquake in 62 AD, only to be covered by volcanic ash and rock when Mount Vesuvius erupted 17 years later. The 14-centimeter long (5.5-inch long) Hermann’s… Read More
Ukraine withdraws in face of Russian advance
After weeks of ferocious fighting, Ukrainian forces will retreat from a besieged city in the country’s east to avoid encirclement, a regional governor said Friday. The city of Sievierodonetsk, the administrative center of the Luhansk region, has faced relentless Russian bombardment. Ukrainian troops fought the Russians in house-to-house battles before… Read More
Biden ignores Iran nuclear build-up
by Frank Holmes, reporter Nuclear watchdogs warn that, thanks to weak U.S. foreign policy, Iran’s nuclear program has crossed a dangerous threshold, taking a quantum leap forward in its efforts to get its hands on a nuclear weapon. While Iran revs up its missile development, Israel is systematically assassinating the… Read More
Dems reeling after huge SCOTUS loss
In a major expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, a ruling likely to lead to more people legally armed in cities and beyond. About a quarter of the U.S. population lives in states expected to… Read More
Former Big Pharma insider pleads guilty
A former communications director at a pharmaceutical company has pleaded guilty in what authorities said was an insider trading scheme involving a breast cancer drug. Lauren Wood pleaded guilty Wednesday in Newark to one count of securities fraud and is scheduled to be sentenced in November. Wood, of Washington, and… Read More
Voter ID advocates get huge win
The Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders and voter ID advocates in North Carolina a win Thursday in a fight over the state’s latest photo identification voting law. The 8-1 decision does not end the three-year-plus dispute over the voter ID law, which is not in effect and has been… Read More
FDA bans e-cigarettes tied to teen vaping surge
Federal health officials on Thursday ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the U.S. market, the latest blow to the embattled company widely blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping. The action is part of a sweeping effort by the Food and Drug Administration to bring scientific… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa may soon be the voice of the dead
Amazon’s Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members – even if they’re dead. The capability, unveiled at Amazon’s Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas, is in development and would allow the virtual assistant to mimic the voice of a specific person based on a less than a minute of… Read More
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