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Month: October 2024

World’s largest arthropod lived 300 million years ago. Now, fossils show what it really looked like

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like animal named Arthropleura that used its many legs to roam Earth more than 300 million years ago. Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head

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Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, is dead at 61

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the longest, deadliest and most destructive war in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. He was 61. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than Sinwar.

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Perry High School shooter sought fame and tried to livestream the attack, investigation shows

Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The investigation into a deadly shooting at a small-town Iowa high school in January reveals new details, including that the teenage shooter sought fame and attempted to livestream his actions. The town of Perry was rocked when 17-year-old Perry High School student Dylan Butler opened fire on students

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Crews halt fast-moving brush fire that burned 2 Oakland homes, forced 500 evacuations

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A fast-moving fire fed by strong winds burned two homes Friday and damaged several others in a hillside neighborhood in the city of Oakland, where hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate before more than 100 firefighters stopped the progress of the flames, authorities said. Some evacuation orders remained

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Special counsel releases trove of redacted documents in 2020 election subversion case against Trump

By Jeremy Herb, Devan Cole, Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump, revealing snippets of the evidence Smith relied on to charge the former president. Most of

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“Es la Primera Enmienda, estúpido”: juez federal critica a gobierno de DeSantis por amenazas contra estaciones de televisión

CNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — “Para simplificarle las cosas al estado de Florida: es la Primera Enmienda, estúpido”. Eso es lo que escribió un juez federal el jueves al ponerse del lado de las estaciones de televisión locales en una disputa extraordinaria sobre un anuncio de televisión a favor del derecho al aborto. El juez de

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Es un momento difícil para que los jóvenes estadounidenses encuentren trabajo. Es culpa de “la Gran Permanencia”

Sofía Benavides (CNN) — En los últimos dos años, Kirsten Staple ha enviado más de 500 solicitudes de empleo. Al principio, solicitó trabajos relacionados con su licenciatura en psicología obtenida en 2022 de la Universidad de Texas en San Antonio. Pero eso no le ayudó a conseguir nada, así que recientemente abrió su búsqueda a

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Prosecutors in Iran target a newspaper over its cartoon mocking internet restrictions

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian newspaper implying that the public needed to have the patience of the Biblical figure Job in waiting for President Masoud Pezeshkian to lift restrictions on the internet now faces potential criminal charges. The reported case against the pro-reform newspaper Ham Mihan represents one of the first media freedom issues

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Over a year of astonishing ocean heat has given way to the largest coral bleaching on record

Story by Reuters (CNN) — The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Reuters this week. A staggering 77% of the world’s coral reef areas — from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Indian oceans — have so far been subjected to bleaching-level heat stress,

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