• Outlook bleak as time runs out for passengers in Titanic submersible

    Outlook bleak as time runs out for passengers in Titanic submersible

    Jun 21, 2023 03:26 PM EDT

    BOSTON (AP) — Time is quickly running out in the search for a missing submersible that lost contact with its mother ship on Sunday as it descended to the wreck of the Titanic with five people aboard. As an international fleet of surveillance vessels and aircraft forges ahead with ongoing search ...

  • Putin threatens to seize more of Ukraine to block counteroffensive on border regions

    Putin threatens to seize more of Ukraine to block counteroffensive on border regions

    Jun 13, 2023 09:22 PM EDT

    https://youtu.be/9wLKizYKIG8 “It’s still early days, but what we do know is that the more land that Ukrainians are able to liberate, the stronger hand they will have at the negotiating table,” Stoltenberg said at a White House meeting. Also Tuesday, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, Hanna ...

  • Trump indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents

    Trump indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents

    Jun 08, 2023 11:47 PM EDT

    ... NewsHour confirmed the indictment and that Trump has been instructed to appear in U.S. District Court in Miami at 3 p.m. ET Tuesday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SD0NY1ivsg The indictment enmeshes the Justice Department in the most politically explosive prosecution in its long history. Its first ...

  • Why cellphone privacy matters in a post-Roe world

    Why cellphone privacy matters in a post-Roe world

    May 26, 2022 04:21 PM EDT

    ... GPS to prevent apps from tracking your location, but data from a phone’s gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer can also track where you’re going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxC1KCoGbIM This sensor data could be attractive to businesses. For example, Facebook has a patent that relies on the ...

  • WATCH: Senate Judiciary Committee postpones Jackson's Supreme Court nomination to next week

    WATCH: Senate Judiciary Committee postpones Jackson's Supreme Court nomination to next week

    Mar 28, 2022 05:56 PM EDT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkUs6B9DE_k “I think whomever I pick will get a vote from the Republican side,” Biden said after Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would step down from the court this summer. As he started his search for a replacement, the president made a point ...

  • Why do we love puzzles like Wordle, and are they good for our brains?

    Why do we love puzzles like Wordle, and are they good for our brains?

    Jan 26, 2022 09:29 PM EDT

    ... to be no. Older Scrabble players still show the normal effects of aging, like slower processing speed. In both Scrabble and Wordle, players need to search their word memory based on letters, shuffle letters across positions to find solutions or plays — the meaning of the words is irrelevant. Because of ...

  • Exposure related health conditions still trouble 9/11 first responders 20 years later

    Exposure related health conditions still trouble 9/11 first responders 20 years later

    Sep 13, 2021 10:25 PM EDT

    For more information on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), please visit https://copdsos.org/ ... Judy Woodruff: Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. On that day and for weeks after, first responders at the World Trade Center worked to clear rubble and to search for remains. Many ...

  • Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, shatters the power grid

    Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, shatters the power grid

    Aug 30, 2021 10:23 PM EDT

    ... and bayous along the state's Gulf Coast retreated desperately to their attics or roofs and posted their addresses on social media with instructions for search-and-rescue teams on where to find them. More than 1 million customers in Louisiana and Mississippi — including all of New Orleans — were left ...

  • Review prompted by building collapse closes Miami courthouse

    Review prompted by building collapse closes Miami courthouse

    Jul 10, 2021 04:48 PM EDT

    ... leaks, mold and issues with its facade over the years. It's unclear how the new findings might affect those plans to sell the building. https://youtu.be/bJFaUQrY5ws The building underwent a review following the June 24 collapse of the Champlain Towers South building, where efforts are ongoing to ...

  • How NASA is hunting for signs of life on Mars

    How NASA is hunting for signs of life on Mars

    Jun 08, 2021 07:44 PM EDT

    ... of experimental technology -- a small helicopter named Ingenuity and a toaster-sized contraption called MOXIE that converts Mars’s carbon dioxide-heavy atmosphere into oxygen. https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1399740871377973250 The rover is stationed in Mars’s Jezero Crater, which researchers believe was home to a lake more than ...