The latest powerful atmospheric river to drench California put nearly 27,000 people under evacuation orders Tuesday due to flooding and landslide risks. On the central coast, workers hauled truckloads of rocks to plug a broken river levee amid steady rain and wind. Damaging winds with gusts topping 70 mph (113… Read More
Space telescope captures star on cusp of death [Pic]
The Webb Space Telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death. NASA released the picture Tuesday at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. Sponsored: Can marijuana help with pain? The observation was among the first made by Webb following its… Read More
Minnesota mall collapses under weight of snow
Part of the roof at a shopping mall in Duluth, Minnesota, collapsed early Tuesday as workers were removing several inches of snow that had fallen over the weekend, authorities said. No one was injured when the roof fell in at Miller Hill Mall about 9 a.m. Tuesday, when most of… Read More
Texas offers a unique solution to secure U.S. border
Tensions at the border with Mexico remain high. Over the weekend, video showed hundreds of apparent Venezuelan migrants brush past Mexican National Guard members while trying to illegally immigrate across a bridge into El Paso, Texas. Then, authorities said Sunday that at least eight people were killed when two migrant… Read More
Connecticut woman takes advantage of assisted suicide out of state
Lynda Bluestein has terminal cancer and knows she’ll likely die soon, but until Tuesday, she didn’t know if she’d be able to choose how or when and whether her family, friends and dog would be with her when the time comes. The 75-year-old from Bridgeport, Connecticut, reached a settlement with… Read More
Oprah Winfrey announces 100th pick for book club
For her 100th book club pick, Oprah Winfrey relied on the same instincts she has drawn upon from the start: Does the story move her? Does she think about it for days after? In a work of fiction, do the characters seem real to her? “When I don’t move on,… Read More
Puerto Rico baseball fans break world record for hair dye
The blonds are back. Puerto Rico on Friday broke the Guinness World record for the most hair dyed, with 192 men going blond to support the U.S. territory’s team that is vying to win the World Baseball Classic after finishing twice as runner-up. Sponsored: Island experiment uncovered the “Holy Grail”… Read More
Prices rose 6% from last year, before bank failures
U.S. consumer price increases eased slightly from January to February but still pointed to an elevated inflation rate that is posing a challenge for the Federal Reserve at a delicate moment for the financial system. The government said Tuesday that prices increased 0.4% last month, just below January’s 0.5% rise…. Read More
Top Dem senator asks for bank censorship
Following Silicon Valley Bank’s failure on Friday, some frustrated customers took to social media to speculate about possible after-effects. One Democratic senator wanted them to be censored. Less than a teaspoon of THIS improved brain function [Sponsored] Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz, jumped on a conference call Sunday with the Federal… Read More
Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, pioneer for women’s rights, dies at 82
Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, has died. She was 82. Schroeder’s former press secretary, Andrea Camp, said Schroeder suffered a stroke recently and died Monday night at a hospital in Celebration, Florida, the city where she had been residing in recent… Read More
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