Police officers block Clifton Road near Emory Hospital as they respond to a shooting near the campuses of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University on Friday. Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution hide caption toggle caption Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified the man who opened fire at the U.S. Centers for …
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Meteors from the Perseids Meteor Shower streak across a partly cloudy sky above Inyo National Forest in Bishop, California, in 2024. Preston Dyches/NASA hide caption toggle caption Preston Dyches/NASA The annual Perseids meteor shower will reach its peak next week. But astronomers say it won’t be as visible as it has been in recent years. A full moon is also …
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Detroit Lions players take a knee after safety Morice Norris was injured against the Atlanta Falcons during the second half of an NFL preseason football game on Friday in Atlanta. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption toggle caption Brynn Anderson/AP ATLANTA — Detroit Lions safety Morice Norris was in stable condition after he was attended to for about 20 minutes and taken …
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Seventeen third graders vanish into the night in the new horror movie Weapons. Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption toggle caption Warner Bros. Pictures In the prologue of the 1983 film adaptation of The Twilight Zone, two men, played by Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd, are driving along a highway at night. They talk about The Twilight Zone and which episodes …
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On April 2, President Trump signed an executive order imposing wide-ranging tariffs. After delays and adjustments, they are now starting to take shape. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America The tariff era is here. After some delays and many adjustments, most of President Trump’s tariffs kicked in this week, setting a 15% …
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a press conference during his visit to Vienna, Austria, June 16, 2025. Heinz-Peter Bader/AP hide caption toggle caption Heinz-Peter Bader/AP KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Saturday the planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning that any peace deal excluding Kyiv would lead to “dead solutions.” The …
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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images It’s … Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news. On today’s episode: Palantir crosses a billion dollars in quarterly revenue (what do they actually do again?); mRNA vaccine research gets a big cut in RFK Jr’s health department; and a climate disaster database …
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President Trump takes questions from reporters during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Trump said on Friday that he plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15 to talk about a plan to end Russia’s war in …
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China has declared war on the chikungunya virus. How much of a threat is it? : Goats and Soda NPR What to know about chikungunya virus amid new outbreak in China ABC News With Drones and ‘Elephant Mosquitoes,’ China Wages All-Out War on a Virus The New York Times CDC warns of mosquito-borne chikungunya outbreak in southeast China NBC News Alarm in China that …
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In 2010, Jim Lovell explored his Apollo 8 spacecraft at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. M. Spencer Green/AP hide caption toggle caption M. Spencer Green/AP Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We …
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