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A giant iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Friday, not far from a British scientific outpost. The 490 square miles (1270 square kilometers) chunk of ice is bigger than New York City and broke free in a process called calving, according to a statement from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — A new medical papyrus dating back 3,500 years has provided enough new details for Egyptologists to reconstruct the 70-day ancient Egyptian mummifying process. The art of embalming was viewed as sacred and only a select few were trained in completing the process, and

Click here for updates on this story     Davenport, Iowa (WQAD) — The Harper family recently had to hear some of the worst news a parent could hear, and afterwards, people in their community sprang up to support them. Justin Harper, assistant basketball coach at Davenport North, and his wife, Elizabeth, took their 2-year-old son, Wesley,

Former NBA star Jeremy Lin will not be naming the person who called him “coronavirus” while he was playing basketball. Lin, who plays for the Santa Cruz Warriors, the G League, or minor league, affiliate of the Golden State Warriors, tweeted Saturday that he will not be “naming or shaming anyone” after sharing the racism

A Colorado man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Friday for plotting to blow up the 119-year-old Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Richard Holzer — who self-identifies as a neo-Nazi and White supremacist, according to the Justice Department — pleaded guilty last October to federal hate crime and explosive charges

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — A new study says that blood tests may be the key for doctors to get an idea of what to expect when treating COVID-19 patients. Often, when a COVID-19 patient is admitted to the hospital, there’s no clear indicator of how severe their

Police in New Haven, Connecticut, say they have secured an arrest warrant charging MIT graduate student Qinxuan Pan with murder in the fatal shooting of Yale University student Kevin Jiang earlier this month. Pan remains at large, and the New Haven Police Department is expected to provide additional information related to the case on Monday,

Click here for updates on this story     O’ahu, Hawaii (KITV) — UPDATE 02/26/2021 1:36 p.m. Newly released police records show House Representative Sharon Har refused to take a breath or blood test before she was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence Monday evening. In the report, the first officer on scene saw Har’s

Click here for updates on this story     St. Louis (KMOV) — A 32-year-old man died after being shot multiple times in north St. Louis City Thursday. Officials with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said 32-year-old Antoine Johnson was shot in the area of North Broadway and Grape Avenue in the Baden neighborhood just before

Click here for updates on this story     Saginaw, Michigan (WNEM) — Investigators are hoping advances in a specific technology can provide a key clue to a man’s murder from 1988. Nobody knows who this is. Nobody knows his name, his age or where he is from. All anyone knows is, he’s dead. He has been

The Utah Jazz are investigating a team executive for alleged racially insensitive comments made in 2015. On Wednesday, former Jazz player Elijah Millsap wrote on Twitter that Dennis Lindsey, the team’s executive vice president of basketball operations, directed bigoted remarks at him during an exit interview. Millsap wrote in part, “Almost 6yrs ago. On April

Click here for updates on this story     Springdale, Arkansas (KFSM) — Carl, the cat, was reunited with his original owner, Jason Ludlum, from Bay City, Texas, on Monday (Feb. 8) after being missing for four years. He had been hanging out in a neighborhood in Springdale, Ark., nearly 600 miles away, for the past year.