Researchers uploaded new video and photos of ivory-billed woodpeckers flying in a Louisiana forest on Thursday, as government officials indicated they will decide if the species are extinct by the end of the year. The blurry drone and trail camera photographs suggest the big woodpecker may still live in Louisiana 80 years after the last […]
The talk of a government default if Congress doesn’t raise the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling evokes memories of prior shutdowns. Most government workers stayed home during shutdowns, while TSA agents and others worked. Offices piled up work, while untended national parks piled up litter. A government shutdown is not a debt default. America has experienced […]
After months of efforts to transport Russian food and fertilizer to developing countries with exorbitant costs, a top U.N. official said Thursday that he hopes for a breakthrough soon. A day after Moscow agreed to renew a wartime accord allowing Ukraine to export critical food supplies, U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told The Associated Press […]
In an interview last week, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said those who falsely claim stolen elections “will be corrected.” Musk said, “Oh yeah, 100%,” when asked by a CNBC reporter. In the week since former President Donald Trump spent much of a CNN town hall digging into his lie that the 2020 election was “rigged” […]
Last year, workmen accidentally found a juvenile mastodon’s bones in Michigan’s woodlands 13,000 years ago. The Grand Rapids Public Museum now displays them. On Thursday, excited museum officials displayed some of the long-extinct pachyderm’s skeleton, which is still drying. Mastodons were shorter, stockier, and had shorter, less curved tusks than woolly mammoths. Kent County employees […]
Local authorities claimed Thursday that dozens of gunmen killed 80 people in north central Nigeria’s Plateau state, with survivors still looking for bodies. Residents said gunmen attacked numerous villages in Plateau’s rural Mangu area on Monday and Tuesday. Thursday saw burials in Mangu, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Jos, the state capital. The Associated Press […]
If they move to Las Vegas, the Oakland Athletics will play in a minor league stadium, which was unheard of a few years ago. A prominent professional team recently made a similar transfer while waiting for the new venue. After moving from San Diego to Los Angeles, the NFL’s Chargers played in an MLS stadium, […]
To make sure they don’t have the same kind of corrosion that was detected on the bridge that collapsed, investigators looking into the collapse of a bridge in Pittsburgh have asked transportation officials nationwide to inspect more than 10,000 additional bridges with comparable construction. In a report released on Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board […]
Country music icon Garth Brooks announced ahead of Thursday’s opening night that his new Las Vegas residency had been extended with 18 additional shows for the next year. When they were on sale in late 2022 for the “Garth Brooks/Plus One” concert at Caesars Palace hotel-casino, tickets rapidly sold out. When tickets for the 2023 […]
A new study concluded that El Nino warming, which impacts weather worldwide, costs trillions of dollars and lasts longer than expected. Scientists predict a big, expensive El Nino. El Nino, a temporary and natural warming of the equatorial Pacific, causes droughts, floods, and heat waves worldwide. It enhances human-caused warming. Science published a global damage […]
