There is a 50% chance of temperatures exceeding 2 degrees Celsius unless climate pledges are strictly implemented: Study
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Countries around the world will need to do more than make lofty climate promises — they will need to keep them to actually keep them to prevent global temperatures from getting to catastrophic level…
Shanghai lockdown tests resilience of ‘Zero-COVID’ strategy, as economic and social tolls grow
STR/AFP via Getty Images(HONG KONG) — China’s largest city is buckling under its biggest COVID-19 outbreak of the pandemic, with infections continuing to rise, despite a strict lockdown of more than 25 million Shanghai residents.
Cases in Shanghai su…
South Dakota attorney general impeached over fatal car crash
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images(PIERRE, S.D.) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was impeached Tuesday by lawmakers in the state House of Representatives over the 2020 crash he was involved in that left a 55-year-old man dead.
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Florida teen accepted into 27 universities with $4 million in scholarships
Courtesy Jonathan Walker(PANAMA CITY, Fla.) — A Florida teen says he is celebrating after being accepted to 27 colleges and universities, including Harvard, Stanford and MIT, and receiving over $4 million in scholarship money.
“It was just a surprise…
NYPD name person of interest in subway shooting that injured 29
The New York City Police Department announced a person of interest in connection with the Tuesday morning subway shooting in Brooklyn, with investigators saying they are looking for Frank James. The NYPD released a photo of the
More than 102,000 without power in Texas, Louisiana as extreme tornado weather pattern continues
FILE photo – Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — More than 102,000 customers in Texas and Louisiana are without power after a storm system ripe with tornado conditions ripped through the region, according to PowerOutage.us.
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Millie Bobby Brown on being sexualized growing up: “It’s gross”
Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty ImagesMillie Bobby Brown is getting real about what it’s like growing up in the limelight.
While on Tuesday’s episode of The Guilty Femininst podcast, the Stranger Things actress, who turned 18 in February, opened up about ho…
Alyssa Nakken becomes first woman to coach on-field in MLB game
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) — San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken made history Tuesday night, becoming the first woman to coach on the field during a regular season Major League Baseball game as the Giants took on the San Dieg…
NYC subway shooting witness wondered after escape: ‘Is the shooter still with us?’
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Kenneth Foote-Smith was on the subway when a gunman detonated a smoke canister, sending commuters into panic.
He saw women screaming and “banging on the door,” and a man trying to open the subway car door, “fighting for his life….
Russian President Vladimir Putin says peace negotiations with Ukraine have reached a “dead end”
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that peace negotiations with Ukraine have reached a “dead end,” and accused Kyiv of violating previous agreements. Putin made the comments during a joint news conference at the Vostochny Cosmodrome