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  • Paramount Hunts Business-Side Partner for Bari Weiss: Report
    Paramount is quietly hunting for a heavyweight to pair with Bari Weiss on the business side of its news empire, sources tell Axios . The role would mirror Weiss' editorial authority if Paramount's proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery goes through, giving her oversight of news content across both CBS... Read more »
  • Prosecutor: Track Meet Killing Was 'Murder Plain and Simple'
    The fatal stabbing of a high school athlete at a Texas track competition was "murder plain and simple," a prosecutor declared Tuesday as a high-profile trial neared a conclusion, leaving jurors to decide whether a tragedy at a community sports event could lead to a life prison term for a...... Read more »
  • Cops: Airline Pilot Flew 16 Years Without Proper License
    For nearly two decades, a man at the controls of some of Air Canada's biggest jets allegedly lacked the top-tier license his job required. Investigators say the newly retired pilot flew more than 900 domestic and international flights as a captain between 2009 and 2025 without an airline transport pilot...... Read more »
  • US Sunscreens to Get First New Ingredient This Century
    Sunscreen in the US is finally getting a new ingredient after decades of delays. The FDA has cleared bemotrizinol (BEMT) for use, a UV filter long available in Europe, Asia and Australia that health officials and advocates say could close a serious gap in protection against skin cancer–linked rays. "Bemotrizinol...... Read more »
  • Murder of 11-Year-Old Girl Sparks Outrage in France
    France is wrestling with the killing of an 11-year-old girl and the revelation that the man accused had been flagged to police months earlier for alleged child sex abuse—and never questioned, reports the BBC . Tens of thousands marched nationwide Monday after the body of a girl known as Lyhanna...... Read more »
  • NASA Names the Next Artemis Crew
    NASA on Tuesday revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in the space agency's plan to eventually land astronauts on the moon. NASA named Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, Andre Douglas, and the European Space Agency's Luca Parmitano to the mission, per the AP . They won't... Read more »
  • JD Vance Seeks DOJ Probe of Minnesota's Walz
    JD Vance is putting Minnesota's top two Democrats in the Justice Department's crosshairs. The vice president said Monday he has referred Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison for a criminal fraud probe, citing a House Oversight Committee report that alleges they knew about large-scale failures in state...... Read more »
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  • First Live White Abalone Found in 5 Years During Channel Islands Survey Sparks Hope for Recovery
    This rather charismatic mollusk is the white abalone, a Critically-Endangered species of sea snail that’s Wanted: Alive in the state of California. That’s because it hasn’t been seen in 5 years after populations declined 99% since the 1970s. On May 12th, 2026, a research mission aboard the National Oceanic and... Read more »
  • Community Spares No Effort to Reunite Lost Dog with Owner After Their Car Was Rolled in a Crash
    After a serious crash on a rural, British Columbia highway, a woman and her husband had to search for days to find their missing dog Daisy. Along the way, they experienced just about every kind of help imaginable until 96 hours after their crash, they were reunited with their Australian... Read more »
  • Staggering Results Show HIV-Transmission Reduced 100% with Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir Injection
    A 2-stage trial testing a new and acclaimed HIV-prevention drug has shown almost unthinkable results of no new infections among a sample size of 3,200 participants. Called PURPOSE 1, the aim of the first trial was testing a subcutaneous injection of the drug Lenacapavir given twice a year to people... Read more »
  • Dutch Ocean Cleanup Folks Are Clearing LA’s Rivers of Trash in Time for 2028 Olympics
    Seeking to preen and pamper its beaches ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics, authorities in 2 Los Angeles districts needed to figure out how to get thousands of pounds of trash out of the LA and San Gabriel rivers. They turned to the best in class; a man who among... Read more »
  • Good News in History, June 9
    On this day 111 years ago, the musician and innovator Les Paul was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. A natural engineer and phenomenal musician, Lester Polsfuss, as a teen, invented his own speaker and one of the earliest solid body guitars–carving it out of a piece of railroad plank. READ more…... Read more »
  • Striped Rock Dismissed as Natural in 1928 Reclassified as UK’s Oldest Cave Painting
    It was a case of better late than never for the Guardian: editors issued something of a correction 98 years after the paper reported the UK’s oldest prehistoric art was actually a natural phenomenon. On October, 1912, red streaks discovered on a wall in Bacon Cave near Mumbles, Wales, were... Read more »
  • Mangrove Loss Worldwide Is Now Reversing—with More, Denser Forests Than 20 Years Ago
    In what is both literally and figuratively a “landmark” study, research has shown that mangrove forest destruction has not only stopped in the last 20 years, but reversed—the world has more than it did at the turn of the century. Additionally, the degree of age and robustness among intact mangrove... Read more »
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  • Millions of new solar system objects to be found and 'filmed in technicolor' -- studies predict
    Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.... Read more »
  • First direct observation of the trapped waves that shook the world in 2023
    A new study has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September -- October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became trapped standing waves. Using a brand-new type of satellite altimetry, the researchers provide the first observations to confirm the existence of... Read more »
  • Black holes could act as natural supercolliders -- and help uncover dark matter
    Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would otherwise take decades and billions to pursue.... Read more »
  • Webb reveals the origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b
    Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected atmospheric dynamics: Despite extreme heat, methane was detected on the... Read more »
  • Dancing brainwaves: How sound reshapes your brain networks in real time
    What happens inside your brain when you hear a steady rhythm or musical tone? According to a new study, your brain doesn't just hear it -- it reorganizes itself in real time.... Read more »
  • Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues
    Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.... Read more »
  • New laser smaller than a penny can measure objects at ultrafast rates
    Researchers have engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of the most delicate experiments in existence to observe and understand our universe.... Read more »