On Monday, President Joe Biden spoke on the White House lawn to celebrate the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, a law regarding gun control — and one man in the crowd let him know that America isn’t happy. “Today is many things,” Biden said. “It’s proof that despite… Read More
Stunning $10 billion photo takes a look into the past
Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured. The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen in… Read More
UN predicts world population reaches 8B on this date
The United Nations estimated Monday that the world’s population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15 and that India will replace China as the world’s most populous nation next year. In a report released on World Population Day, the U.N. also said global population growth fell below 1% in 2020… Read More
FDA receives application for over-the-counter birth control
For the first time, a pharmaceutical company has asked for permission to sell a birth control pill over the counter in the U.S. HRA Pharma’s application on Monday sets up a high-stakes decision for health regulators amid legal and political battles over abortion. The company says the timing was unrelated… Read More
Amazon Prime Day sees slowdown in online shopping
Amazon is heading into its annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday much differently than how it entered the pandemic. The company has long used the two-day event — one of its biggest all year — to lure people to its Prime membership, for which Amazon recently raised the price… Read More
Fox News star clashes with “Mayor Pete”
On Sunday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on Fox News to defend his husband’s controversial tweet about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Buttigieg earned glowing support from some on the far-lLeft… but others likely wanted him to be harsher on the Supreme Court justice. CAN YOU GUESS: Which one of… Read More
NYC couples derailed by virus get mass ‘re-wedding’
Hundreds of couples whose weddings were derailed or scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic got a do-over at no less than a New York City landmark. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts hosted “Celebrate Love: A (Re)Wedding” for 500 couples on Sunday evening in the pavilion outside the… Read More
Dive team retrieves ring from Massachusetts River
What could be harder than looking for a needle in a haystack? Probably retrieving a ring from a river. But against all odds, divers with the Cambridge Fire Department managed to fish a Chicago woman’s diamond ring from the Charles River after it tumbled into the water while she and… Read More
Wildfires threaten these historic American icons
A wildfire threatening the largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park more than doubled in size in a day, and firefighters were working in difficult terrain Sunday to protect the iconic trees and a small mountain town as the U.S. weathers another very active year for fires. Campers… Read More
Where to see the annual ‘Manhattanhenge’
Didn’t make it to Stonehenge for the solstice? There’s still time to catch Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and bathes the urban canyons in a rosy glow. The last two Manhattanhenge sunsets of 2022 are Monday and Tuesday. Here’s some background on the phenomenon…. Read More
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