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Witnesses describe terror and courage during the Minneapolis school shooting  NPR She smelled smoke, heard a bang and then saw a broken window. Tween survivor recalls the fear and chaos of Minneapolis attack  CNN Minneapolis church shooting audio captures first responders rushing to chaotic scene in deadly attack  Fox News What we know about Minnesota school shooting suspect Robin Westman  ABC News Robin Westman …

As President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge approaches the end of its third week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is working to quell the fear and anxiety it has created for some city residents. As President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge approaches the end of its third week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is working to quell the fear and anxiety it …

IN A NUTSHELL 🔭 Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a pattern in galactic rotations. 🌀 Around 60% of ancient galaxies rotate clockwise, challenging previous assumptions of randomness. 🌌 The hypothesis suggests our universe might be within a massive black hole, redefining cosmic principles. 🔍 Observational bias, such as the Doppler effect, is considered an alternative explanation for …

Review | FX’s ‘Alien: Earth’ delivers Xenomorph terror with a ‘Peter Pan’ twist  The Washington Post In ‘Alien: Earth’, the Future Is a Corporate Hellscape  WIRED How to Watch ‘Alien: Earth’ Online Without Cable for Free  The Hollywood Reporter ‘Alien: Earth’ is a tense, dark meditation about what makes us human  Los Angeles Times ‘Alien: Earth’ Is About a Different Kind of Monster  The Ringer …

‘I truly thought the plane was going down’: Passengers share terror on flight diverted to MSP  Bring Me The News Passengers describe chaos on SLC-Amsterdam flight that hospitalized 25  Axios 25 people hurt on Delta flight that diverted to MSP after ‘significant turbulence’ released from hospital  5 EYEWITNESS NEWS What in-flight turbulence is and when it becomes dangerous for passengers and crews  AP News …

A man has been arrested over a disturbance on an Easyjet flight from Luton to Glasgow Airport. Police boarded the aircraft after it landed in Glasgow at 08:20 and arrested the 41-year-old. Footage has been circulating online showing a man on an aircraft shouting “death to America, death to Trump” and “Allahu Akbar” – an Arabic phrase meaning “God is …

Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ago, a young caiman came upon a tasty snack in modern-day South America. The meal, however, turned out to be rather ambitious, because the croc hadn’t come upon just any old prey. It was a phorusrhacid, a large carnivore in its own right, aptly known as a “terror bird.” The now-extinct terror bird …

Standing around 10 feet tall, weighing around 220 pounds and with an axe-like beak capable of delivering devastating strikes, the terror bird would have proved a formidable foe for most creatures. But around 13 million years ago, one of them may have fallen prey to an even larger creature, a team of paleontologists in Colombia have discovered after examining bite …

Fossilized bite marks suggest there could have been a dramatic tussle between a gigantic terror bird and an even more massive crocodile around 12 million years ago. Phorusrhacids, commonly known as “terror birds,” were apex predators that terrorized prey in the ancient ecosystems of South America. While these flightless carnivores had little to fear on land, a new study, published …

Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Link et al/Biology Letters The researchers say the terror bird did not survive the encounter Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger predator may have killed it, scientists say. Terror birds were top predators – they …