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Facebook Tweet Email Link Starke, Florida AP  —  A man convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this year, his death Thursday marking a state record for a single-year execution total since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty decades ago. Edward Zakrzewski, 60, was …

Jared Allen will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, and he’s going in with a renewed argument that he’s the rightful owner of the NFL’s single-season sack record. In 2011, Allen finished with 22 sacks — only a half-sack shy of the record shared by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt. But Allen believes he deserves …

Trump goes after Susan Collins for her voting record  Politico Susan Collins navigates Trump land mines with reelection bid looming  The Hill Susan Collins Isn’t Worried — Even Though Maine Is Blue on Paper  Bloomberg.com Exclusive / Collins pushes White House on spending cuts  Semafor Susan Collins faces heat from the right  Punchbowl News Source link

A lightning bolt that spanned five states in the Great Plains has set a new record for the longest lightning bolt ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization has confirmed. The “megaflash” zipped across 515 miles (829 kilometers) from eastern Texas through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in seven seconds, beating the previous record of 477 miles (768 …

The percentage of kids who didn’t get their recommended childhood vaccines rose again last school year, continuing the post-pandemic trend of Americans opting out of vaccinations. During the 2024-25 school year, 4.1% of kindergartners — about 138,000 kids — had a vaccine exemption, surpassing the previous record high of 3.7% during the prior school year. Nearly all exemptions are listed …

Samsung’s latest foldables are already making quite a statement, beyond their bold new designs — or maybe because of them.  The phone-maker said in a newsroom post Thursday that the Galaxy Z Fold 7, which is its thinnest foldable yet, racked up more preorders “than any previous Z Fold device in US history.” It added that both the Z Fold 7 …

Photo: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS First on LateNighter: Stephen Colbert’s Late Show days may be numbered—but he just set a new ratings record. According to Nielsen Live+3 data, Colbert captured an average weekly share of 12.63% among total viewers last week—his first full week of shows since CBS announced the show’s cancellation. That’s the highest weekly share The Late Show with Stephen …

Meta Stock: Facebook Parent Surges Near Record High. Everything to Know About Its Blowout Earnings.  Barron’s Meta Shares Soar as Ad Business Continues to Fuel AI Ambitions  The Wall Street Journal Meta’s growth strikes Wall Street as incomprehensibly strong, and the stock rockets  MarketWatch ‘Superintelligence’ Will Create a New Era of Empowerment, Mark Zuckerberg Says  The New York Times Meta Reports Second Quarter 2025 …

World Aquatics Championships 2025: Summer McIntosh wins third gold; Leon Marchand falls short of own world record  Yahoo Sports ‘I was so close’: Summer McIntosh wins 3rd gold medal, just misses world record in 200m butterfly  CBC Summer McIntosh wins third gold of swimming worlds; Léon Marchand wins 200 IM  The New York Times Katie Ledecky looks toward ‘exciting’ head to head with …

Microsoft to spend record $30 billion this quarter as AI investments pay off  Reuters Microsoft tops $4 trillion in market cap after hours, joining Nvidia in exclusive club  CNBC Microsoft set for $4 trillion market cap after posting Q4 beat on top and bottom line on cloud, AI strength  Yahoo Finance Microsoft’s stock surges after earnings. Here’s the biggest number from the report.  MarketWatch …