Just a month into her tenure as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Erica Schwartz is missing in action. The country is heading into respiratory virus season, and public guidance on COVID-19, flu and RSV vaccines has been muddled, at best. The worst measles epidemic in more than 30 years [...]
"I'm not concerned at all," Cooper said. "We're armed and ready for any contingency."
The war with Iran has sent diesel fuel prices soaring at a time when warming waters mean lobstermen are traveling further offshore to look for lobster.
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The unnamed officials did not accuse the Chinese government of being directly involved and declined to identify the suppliers
A 44-year-old New Mexico man filmed himself tearing down ten Flock Safety surveillance cameras worth $16,500, loaded them into his truck, and was arrested at gunpoint outside the very sheriff's office whose contracts with the camera company had just been canceled. Jevon Martinez of Rio Rancho spent September 2 dismantling automated license plate reader systems […] The post New Mexico man livestreamed himself ripping down Flock surveillance cameras — then drove straight to the sheriff's office appeared first on American Almanac .
A 44-year-old New Mexico man filmed himself tearing down ten Flock Safety surveillance cameras worth $16,500, loaded them into his truck, and was arrested at gunpoint outside the very sheriff's office whose contracts with the camera company had just been canceled. Jevon Martinez of Rio Rancho spent September 2 dismantling automated license plate reader systems across Bernalillo County, broadcasting the whole operation on Facebook Live. He told viewers he was doing the sheriff's deputies a favor, removing equipment they no longer needed after the county sheriff ended the department's relationship with Flock Safety. Deputies saw it differently. They surrounded his pickup outside their own headquarters, drew their weapons, and put him in…Open
The smallest planet in our solar system is contracting far more rapidly than researchers estimated, with a new study revealing that impact debris has been hiding the true scale of Mercury's slow collapse for billions of years. Scientists at the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that Mercury's diameter may have shrunk […] The post Mercury shrinking 30 percent faster than scientists believed, new study finds appeared first on American Almanac .
The smallest planet in our solar system is contracting far more rapidly than researchers estimated, with a new study revealing that impact debris has been hiding the true scale of Mercury's slow collapse for billions of years. Scientists at the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that Mercury's diameter may have shrunk by as much as 14 miles, roughly 30 percent more than previous estimates suggested. The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters, upend decades of assumptions about how quickly the solar system's innermost planet has been cooling and contracting since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. The key discovery came down to what researchers could not see.…Open
A hobbyist with a metal detector stumbled onto thousands of silver coins buried in the Finnish countryside for roughly a thousand years, a find experts are calling the largest Late Iron Age coin cache ever discovered in Finland. Kalle Lappinen was sweeping a field near Sysmä, a quiet town in southern Finland, on September 3 […] The post Amateur archaeologist unearths Finland's largest Viking Age silver hoard with a metal detector appeared first on American Almanac .
A hobbyist with a metal detector stumbled onto thousands of silver coins buried in the Finnish countryside for roughly a thousand years, a find experts are calling the largest Late Iron Age coin cache ever discovered in Finland. Kalle Lappinen was sweeping a field near Sysmä, a quiet town in southern Finland, on September 3 when his detector signaled something beneath the soil. What he found was no stray relic. Buried about 18 inches underground, packed inside birch bark containers wedged between stones, lay a trove of Viking Age silver that professional archaeologists would spend the next day pulling from the earth, ABC News reported . By September 4, the retrieval team from Lahti Museums had recovered almost 10 pounds of silver from…Open
Germany's Alexander Zverev defeated America's Ben Shelton in four sets Sunday to win the U.S. Open, extending a two-decade drought since an American man last hoisted the trophy in Queens. Zverev, 29, dismantled Shelton 6-3, 7-6, 5-7, 6-2 at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, collecting $5.5 million in prize money and a Tiffany & […] The post Alexander Zverev claims second Grand Slam title, ending American hopes at U.S. Open appeared first on American Almanac .
Germany's Alexander Zverev defeated America's Ben Shelton in four sets Sunday to win the U.S. Open, extending a two-decade drought since an American man last hoisted the trophy in Queens. Zverev, 29, dismantled Shelton 6-3, 7-6, 5-7, 6-2 at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, collecting $5.5 million in prize money and a Tiffany & Co. trophy presented by American tennis great Jimmy Connors. The win gave Zverev his second Grand Slam title, following his French Open victory in June, and capped a dominant run through the draw in which he did not drop a set after the second round. For Shelton, 23 and appearing in his first Grand Slam final, the loss stung, but the University of Florida product handled it with uncommon grace. No American man has…Open