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President Donald Trump has picked Jim O’Neill, a former investor and critic of health regulations serving under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to take control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following a tumultuous week in which the agency’s director was forced out. O’Neill, Kennedy’s deputy at the Department of Health and Human Services, will supplant Susan Monarez, …

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on a miniature scale. An analysis of new JWST observations on a number of rogue planets – each weighing between five and 10 Jupiters – has revealed the presence of disks …

The Big Ten has considered an idea of a massive expansion of the College Football Playoff that would grow the postseason to 24 or 28 teams, sources told ESPN. While the idea is in the very early stages, the proposal eliminates conference title games and offers a large number of auto bids for all four power leagues, sources said. For …

President Trump wrote Sunday that homeless people should be moved out of Washington, D.C., “IMMEDIATELY” and relocated “FAR” away, as he hints at more aggressive policing in the nation’s capital — and suggests putting the city under federal control. The Trump administration announced last week it had boosted the presence of federal law enforcement in D.C., after the alleged assault …

The group of six who accidentally floated to Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River near Bend were in inner tubes tied together and included a Texas woman who had just celebrated her 40th birthday and a 33-year-old woman from Florida, authorities said Tuesday. Three of the six were able to jump from the inner tubes and make it safely to …

CNN  —  First Beyoncé, now Katy Perry. The “Part of Me” singer was in San Francisco on Friday night performing as part of her Lifetimes Tour, when a giant butterfly prop she was riding malfunctioned as it hung suspended over the crowd. As seen in several video clips shared by audience members on social media, Perry was in the midst …

A remarkable discovery of ancient fish fossils has revealed a chilling and unusual pattern: Tharsis, a now-extinct genus of ray-finned fish, may have met its end in the same tragic way. Analysis of fossilized specimens has shown that these carnivorous fish, which lived during the Jurassic period, frequently died with belemnites—large cephalopods—lodged in their gullets. This bizarre and fatal phenomenon …

A few years ago, Simon Lorenz, owner of marine tour company Insider Divers, led a group through the waters surrounding Sri Lanka. While he and the guests were looking for whales, they noticed a pile of debris floating by. Simon Lorenz / Insider Divers Whenever Lorenz comes across a clump of trash in the ocean, he makes sure to pause …