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Long before his banishment from gymnastics and arrest after accusations he abused girls he coached, warning signs about Sean Gardner were coming from several directions – his former boss, his gymnasts and their parents. The former boss says she brought her concerns about Gardner’s “grooming” behavior to USA Gymnastics, the sport’s national governing body. The parents and girls described telling …

Hurricane Katrina was described as “a slow-motion catastrophe” on “60 Minutes” on Sept. 4, 2005, six days after slamming the Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, the storm is known as the costliest and one of the deadliest to ever hit the United States. Katrina first made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Florida on Aug. 25, 2005. It then …

The average price of a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. reached its lowest late-summer price of the past four years this month — but not in Oregon, where gas prices rose over the same time period. So far this month, the U.S. average for a gallon of gas has been about $3.13, a 3-cent drop from August 2021, …

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Pollinators play a vital role in fertilizing flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our agriculture. But climate change can cause a mismatch between plants and their pollinators, affecting where they live and what time of year they’re …

Deep below the seafloor, locked in a layer of 100-million-year-old sediment, a lifeform quietly lives. It’s not quite Godzilla, nor a long-lost Megalodon, but it does go to show how life on Earth can dwell under the most extreme and bizarre circumstances. Scientists discovered that communities of microbes living beneath the seafloor are able to survive in rock sediments for …

The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town overwhelmingly won election this week, four years after he says White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. Incumbent Mayor Patrick Braxton was elected as the mayor of Newbern, winning 66 votes to his opponent’s 26, according to results posted by the town. His …

20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is ‘at a Tipping Point’  The New York Times ‘Saints’ and uplift at New Orleans Katrina memorial as city marks 20 years since storm  NOLA.com The long recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, ‘ground zero’ for Hurricane Katrina  NPR Katrina20: The Storm That Changed Everything  WLOX Hurricane Katrina survivors share stories of perseverance 20 years after deadly storm  Fox …

The last time Oasis played a concert in the United States, it was December of 2008 and the band was just months away from a backstage fracas between brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher in Paris that would prematurely end the tour, estrange the siblings for more than a decade, and sink any lingering hope of them ever conquering America the …

Shimano has updated its iconic two-bolt SPD cleat system for the first time in “nearly 30 years”, enabling riders to clip in to SPD pedals from multiple angles. Built around the same two-bolt design as Shimano’s existing SH51 SPD cleats (which launched in 1995), the new CL-MT001 cleats feature a modified leading edge. This is claimed to enable riders to …

Heidi Gardner is the latest cast member of Saturday Night Live to leave the show, a source tells Rolling Stone.  The comedian will exit the NBC show after eight years, joining a list of three other castmates who are not returning for Season 51. Variety and several outlets also confirmed the news on Thursday. Gardner has yet to address her departure from the show. She joined SNL as a featured player …