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April’s total solar eclipse is a month away. Here’s why it’s worth the watch and how to stay safe

The sun is about to pull another disappearing act across North America, turning an April day into night during a total solar eclipse.

2 months ago

Colorado snow storm knocks out power for thousands even as I-70 reopens

A major storm is dumping heavy, wet snow in Colorado. Conditions are forcing flight cancellations and shuttered a highway that connects Denver to Colorado's ski resorts.

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Alec Baldwin seeks dismissal of grand jury indictment in fatal shooting of cinematographer

Defense attorneys for Alec Baldwin urged a judge to dismiss a grand jury indictment against the actor in the set fatal shooting.

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Severe storms with tornadoes kill at least 3 in the central US

Severe storms and probable tornadoes tore through the central U.S. states, damage homes and businesses and kill at least 3 people.

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Pierce Brosnan pleads guilty to walking off trail in Yellowstone, must pay $1,500

Some of the millions of people who visit Yellowstone each year get badly burned by ignoring signs warning them not to stray off the trail.

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What’s Pi Day all about? Math, science, pies and more

Math enthusiasts around the world, from college kids to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day on Thursday, which is March 14.

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Judge rejects Trump’s bid to throw out classified documents case

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Donald Trump to throw out out his classified documents criminal case.

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Facts about hail, the icy precipitation often encountered in spring and summer

Hail is a product of thunderstorms and the size of this precipitation depends on the strength of the updraft, which is the upward flow of air in a thunderstorm.

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Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he’s putting together investor group to buy TikTok

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is trying to pull a group together to buy TikTok. This comes after Congress looked at banning it.

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Judge overseeing Georgia election interference case dismisses some charges against Trump

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee quashed six counts in the indictment, including three against Trump

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Trump wins delegates needed to become GOP’s presumptive nominee for third straight election

With wins in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state, Trump surpassed the 1,215-delegate threshold needed to become the presumptive Republican nominee.

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President Joe Biden has won enough delegates to clinch the 2024 Democratic nomination

President Joe Biden, clinched a second straight Democratic nomination Tuesday and set up an all-but-certain rematch with Donald Trump

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How a wandering white shark’s epic journey could provide clues for protecting them

Great white sharks roam the ocean searching for their favorite food, marine mammals, and were once hunted without discrimination.

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Pentagon to rush $300 million in weapons to Ukraine

It's the Pentagon's first announced security package for Ukraine since December, when it acknowledged it was out of replenishment funds.

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Airbnb is banning the use of indoor security cameras

Airbnb said Monday that it's banning the use of indoor security cameras in listings on its site around the world by the end of next month.

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How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April

Researchers and citizen scientists will observe how animals' routines at several zoos are disrupted during the April 8 total solar eclipse.

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What do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing? The wild and wacky skijoring

Nick Burri zipps past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling off jumps skijoring behind a quarter horse named Sirius.

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Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline

On Saturday, President Joe Biden signed into law a package of spending bills passed by the Senate.

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Cole Brauer becomes first American woman to race sailboat alone and nonstop around world

On Thursday, 29-year-old Cole Brauer became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself.

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For social platforms, the outage was short. But people’s stories vanished, and that’s no small thing

Even though the recent outage only lasted a handful of hours, it still meant people had less access to news and other important information.

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A Utahn is charged with trying to illegally export arms for coup in South Sudan

A Utah man born in South Sudan is facing charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars worth of weapons to overthrow the African government.

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Xcel Energy says its facilities appeared to have role in igniting largest wildfire in Texas history

The Texas fire was among a cluster of fires that ignited in the rural Panhandle last week and prompted evacuation orders.

2 months ago

Kevin Bacon, a 450-pound pig, hams it up for home security camera

He had escaped, but his family fed Kevin Bacon the pig apples, rice cakes, tomatoes and carrots to lure him home.

2 months ago

US official says Boeing hasn’t turned over records about work on the panel that blew off a jetliner

The safety board's chair told a Senate Committee that for two months Boeing repeatedly refused to identify employees who work on door panels on Boeing 737s.