By Ashley Strickland, CNN China’s Zhurong rover has found evidence suggesting that water persisted on Mars for much longer than expected. Zhurong landed in a large plain in Mars’ northern hemisphere called Utopia Planitia on May 15, 2021 — where NASA’s Viking 2 lander touched down in 1976. The rover’s primary mission, which lasted for
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Investigators determined the lawn tractor Connolly was using slipped off the bank and flipped over into the creek.
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The Scout, a one-time competitor to Ford Broncos and Jeeps that was last sold more than four decades ago, is being resurrected by Volkswagen as a line of all-electric trucks and SUVs. Scout will become its own separate brand offering off-road-oriented electric trucks and SUVs in North America. A Scout
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CHICAGO (AP) — After Cleveland manager Terry Francona tested positive for COVID-19, the series finale between the Guardians and White Sox was postponed to allow for more testing and contact tracing. Major League Baseball released a statement saying only there were “multiple positive COVID-19 tests” within Cleveland’s organization. Francona tested positive a few hours before
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Bryan Lambillotte knows the anxiety-induced hunt for baby formula all too well amid the ongoing national shortage. He and his husband Chris are new parents to 2-month-old twins Brecon and London, who have been formula-fed since birth. The couple chose not to have their surrogate breastfeed them because they wanted the
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN As the US and Europe worked for decades to reduce air pollution for the sake of public health and the planet, scientists found an unintended and challenging consequence: an increase in tropical storms in some regions. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances found that over the past
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee have asked the Justice Department to investigate whether a Trump administration interior secretary engaged in possible criminal conduct while helping an Arizona developer get a crucial permit for a housing project. David Bernhardt, who led the Interior Department from 2019
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business The pitchforks have been out for Kohl’s over the past year. Activist investors have criticized the department store’s strategy, blasted its CEO and tried to replace its board of directors. Kohl’s has beaten them back — for now. Kohl’s said Wednesday that it re-elected all 13 of its board of
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The largest white diamond to ever come up for auction has been sold for 21,681,000 CHF ($21.9 million) at Christie’s in Geneva. The 228.31-carat, pear-shaped gemstone — dubbed “The Rock” — originated from South Africa, where some of the largest diamonds in the world have been found, including the pear-shaped “Star of
Continue Reading By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s friendly match against rival Argentina scheduled for June in Australia has been canceled. The game was planned as part of Brazil’s preparations for the World Cup, but Brazilian soccer confederation coordinator Juninho Paulista says that their Argentina counterparts made the decision to call it
Continue ReadingToday: Temperatures continue to rise to just above 90 degrees with the heat index topping out into the upper ’90s. Winds remain out of the south at 4-8 mph. Tonight: Skies remain partly cloudy with winds remaining out of the south at 4-8 mph. The overnight low cools to around 70 degrees. Extended: Thursday we
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The Cole County Prosecutor’s Office charged Alok K. Rohra, 36, with a felony count of unlawful possession of a weapon.
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN With the added bonus of dueling Mr. Darcys for “Pride and Prejudice” aficionados, “Operation Mincemeat” unites Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen in an extraordinary true story of World War II espionage, built around Winston Churchill’s statement that in war, truth should be accompanied by “a bodyguard of lies.” Here, the
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa assistant Kirk Speraw will retire on June 30 after 43 years coaching college basketball, head coach Fran McCaffery announced Wednesday. Speraw began his career as a graduate assistant under Lute Olson on Iowa’s 1980 Final Four team and ended it as a 12-year assistant under McCaffery. “Kirk has been
Continue Reading IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa assistant Kirk Speraw will retire on June 30 after 43 years coaching college basketball, head coach Fran McCaffery announced Wednesday. Speraw began his career as a graduate assistant under Lute Olson on Iowa’s 1980 Final Four team and ended it as a 12-year assistant under McCaffery. “Kirk has been
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN There have been other stories about fertility doctors who abused their positions, and even a short-lived Fox drama built around the idea. Condensed into a documentary premiering on Netflix, “Our Father” captures the pain and betrayal associated with that, while diluting the message by shooting and scoring the production using
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president is promising to appoint a new prime minister, empower the Parliament and abolish the all-powerful executive presidential system as reforms to stabilize the country engulfed in a political crisis and violence triggered by the worst economic crises in memory. In a televised
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Las sobredosis por drogas en Estados Unidos fueron más mortales que nunca en 2021, según datos provisionales de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) Casi 108.000 personas murieron por sobredosis en 2021 en el país, y cerca de dos tercios
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell on Wall Street Wednesday after a report on inflation came in worse than feared last month. The S&P 500 was 0.6% lower after waffling between gains and losses in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 91
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Wynonna and Ashley Judd are working with CMT and Sandbox Live to honor their mother late mother, Naomi Judd with a televised memorial. The Judd sisters announced on April 30 that they had lost their mother “to the disease of mental illness.” She was 76. CMT announced on Wednesday that
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