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(NEW YORK) — Few modern-day structural mysteries have garnered as much international fascination as the tall, mirrored monolith columns that have appeared in seemingly random locations since 2020. Reminiscent of the prehistoric Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, but rooted in Millennium-era fictional lore, monoliths are long vertical metal slabs, each approximately 10 to 12 feet tall. […]

(NEW YORK) — “The heat is coming for everybody,” Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, said as one of the season’s earliest-onset heat waves scorches the United States. As officials heed heat wave warnings across the country, forecasting what could become another hottest year on record, air conditioning units whirr […]

(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump filed a motion Thursday to try to get the judge who oversaw his civil fraud trial in New York kicked off the case. The motion alleges that Judge Arthur Engoron violated the rules governing how judges are supposed to behave. Engoron in February ordered Trump to pay $464 […]

Gary Hershorn/Getty Images (OKLAHOMA CITY) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Southwest Airlines plane descended to a dangerously low altitude as it made its approach to the Oklahoma City Airport just after midnight Thursday, according to the FAA. An automated warning went off from the Minimum Safe Altitude Warning system at 12:05 […]

(KATY, Texas.) — A family of taekwondo black belts in Texas rescued a woman who was allegedly being sexually assaulted. Han An, wife Hong An and their three children Hannah, Simon and Christian, all of whom have black belts in the Korean martial art, came to the aid Tuesday of a cell phone store employee […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Thursday moved to dismiss the charges against most of the pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Columbia University and nearby City College, though prosecutors are moving forward with cases against a handful of protesters who allegedly assaulted police officers. Prosecutors said they’re hamstrung by “extremely […]

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — The “armed and dangerous” suspect accused of four murders — three in Oklahoma and one in Alabama — as well as a slew of other crimes, was caught Thursday morning following a nearly two-day manhunt. Stacy Lee Drake, 50, was taken into custody Thursday around 10 a.m., according to the Arkansas […]

(NEW YORK) — A new, giant-horned species of dinosaur was discovered that researchers said is the “largest and most ornate” of its kind ever found, according to a study published Thursday in the journal PeerJ. Fossils of the dinosaur, which has been named Lokiceratops rangiformis — including a skull and a partial skeleton — were […]

In this aerial image, vehicles drive through flooded neighborhoods on June 19, 2024 in Surfside Beach, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, has made landfall in Mexico after pummeling Texas with rain. A whopping 9.5 inches of rain has inundated Rockport, […]

(NEW YORK) — This year’s summer solstice arrives as a dangerous heat wave affects millions across the country, with early-season extreme heat impacting parts of the Midwest and Northeast. But the longest day of the year — which begins Thursday at 4:51 p.m. ET — is not typically associated with the hottest temperatures of the […]