When Rev. Pamela Conrad looks into the heavens, she really looks into the heavens. By night, and at odd moments during the day, Conrad moonlights as a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington, DC. A member of the tactical operations team for the Mars Perseverance rover mission, she is a co-investigator
Continue Reading
Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — The Bucks Organization is observing Juneteenth early to celebrate and raise awareness of the holiday. The Bucks employee resource group, Black Leaders and Advocates Creating Change (BLACC) partnered with two black-owned bakeries to provide Bucks employees with cookies on Sunday, June 13. The cookies featured
Continue Reading
Rebel Wilson has been documenting her fitness journey on social media for more than a year and a recent post has some of her followers worried. The “Pitch Perfect” star posted a production still on her verified Instagram account which shows how much weight she has lost, writing in the caption, “Hey babe, you got
Continue Reading Ned Beatty, an Oscar-nominated character actor whose many films include “Deliverance” and “Superman,” has died at the age of 83. “Ned passed away from natural causes Sunday morning, surrounded by his family and loved ones,” Shelter Entertainment Group Talent Manager Deborah Miller told CNN in an email. Beatty’s first film role gained him lasting notice
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — It was a violent and dangerous weekend in Milwaukee starting from Friday, June 11. CBS 58 has been keeping track of the shootings and talking to families. They say they’re wondering if the city is safe. Twenty-three year-old Brittany Alexis Meyer is the latest victim
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ALBANY, Georgia (Albany Herald) — After an underwhelming turnout during early voting in a special election to fill a vacant Dougherty County School Board seat, only one day remains for voters to cast ballots. Six candidates are vying to fill the unexpired term of Milton “June Bug” Griffin,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TOWN OF ROXBURY, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal ) — One of the few comforts for Marc and Margie Watson is knowing they are not alone. Homes have been moved to higher ground and some people have sold their property to the county. Other structures remain flooded and unlivable,
Continue Reading
The parents of a former US Marine imprisoned in Russia are pleading with Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin to work out a deal to send him home. Paula and Joey Reed hope Wednesday’s summit between the leaders will allow a resolution to nearly two years of detention for their son, Trevor Reed. “He’s being
Continue Reading
The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is reporting 19 new COVID-19 cases from Saturday through Monday. There are currently 56 active cases in the county. The county now has a reported total number of COVID-19 cases of 18,634. The county has reported the total number of cases removed from isolation is
Continue Reading
Air travel in the United States is back. That’s great news for airline stocks, which have rallied this year on hopes that domestic trips would make a return. What’s happening: The Transportation Security Administration said over the weekend that it screened more than 2 million passengers on Friday — the highest number since early March
Continue Reading
The list of challenges facing Iran’s next president would confound the most capable of leaders. Iran is in negotiations with the United States over how to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, and in talks with regional nemesis Saudi Arabia. The country is in the throes of an economic crisis and is under mounting pressure to
Continue Reading Singers performing a duet, jazz players riffing together effortlessly, paired-up dancers never skipping a step: great performers are so coordinated, they become one. What are the mechanisms that regulate coordination and cooperation? Neurobiologists are learning more from some of nature’s foremost musical performers: songbirds. The brains of duetting songbirds are linked together during performances, a
Continue Reading
Retired teacher Virginia Rose came up with a map to help the mobility-challenged get outside into nature after finding her own passion for birding.
Continue Reading A person drove into a group of protesters in Minneapolis early Monday, killing one woman and injuring another person, authorities said. A suspect is in custody after police say they saw the vehicle on video surveillance drive into the protesters just after midnight. The crowd was protesting an officer-involved shooting from a few weeks ago
Continue Reading
President Joe Biden has arrived at his first in-person North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit Monday, vowing to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to a military alliance his predecessor viewed with disdain. “I want to make it clear: NATO is critically important for US interests in and of itself. If there weren’t one, we’d have to
Continue Reading
One of 14 people injured in a mass shooting in downtown Austin, Texas, has died, police say. Douglas John Kantor, 25, died from his injures around noon local time Sunday, Austin Police said in a release. Authorities have arrested one person in connection with the shooting early Saturday morning, Mayor Steve Adler’s office said earlier.
Continue Reading
Several allies and former aides to Vice President Kamala Harris had “flashbacks” last week as they watched her fumble a politically sensitive question during her first foreign trip, seeing the misstep as part of a broader pattern of messaging challenges that have dogged her since her presidential campaign. This time, though, the interview came after
Continue Reading
What would you pay to take a jolting, 11-minute trip into suborbital space alongside Jeff Bezos? According to bidders in an auction that wrapped up Saturday, it’s worth $28 million. The company kicked off the auction last month — before it was revealed that billionaire founder and Amazon mogul Bezos, along with his brother Mark
Continue Reading It’s mid-morning when three velvet-helmeted swimmers suddenly bob up from deep underneath the turquoise sea. Dazzles of light dance as kayakers swoosh oars through glacier-clear water, propelling over a kelp forest towards Nor Nour, a tiny, deserted island. It’s then the divers appear: Atlantic Grey seals just meters away, rare in many places but not
Continue Reading The federal agency responsible for overseeing consumer product safety is investigating Amazon-branded electronic products highlighted in a CNN investigation last year, according to records and interviews. CNN reported last year that dozens of AmazonBasics electronics remained for sale on Amazon.com, despite customers reporting the products had melted, exploded or burst into flames. Lawmakers immediately called
Continue Reading