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Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Mexico, with its sights set on Texas next
MPR News· 4 days agoHurricane Beryl is now turning its wrath on Mexico and headed for the Gulf of Mexico, weakened but still dangerous after tearing through a series of Caribbean islands in recent days. The National ...
Carpenter Ants Perform Life-Saving Amputations to Treat Leg Injuries
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days ago“Not only can they do this, but they are even able to diagnose the wounds and, depending on the...
The explosive history of fireworks, from ancient China to Revolutionary America
MPR News· 6 days agoOn any July Fourth or New Year’s Eve, it’s common to experience the loud pop of a firework or see it colorfully explode into the sky and hang there briefly. Pyrotechnic amusements from sparklers ...
As heat waves intensify, more public housing residents may get help with AC bills
MPR News· 5 days agoThe summer has already been a scorcher and heat alerts across the country could lead to more records broken. Public housing residents, many elderly, children or sick, are disproportionately ...
6 takeaways from Biden's high-stakes interview
MPR News· 4 days agoDemocrats have been in full panic mode about President Biden’s candidacy and ability to beat Donald Trump since Biden’s dismal debate performance last week. In an effort to quell that concern ...
Democratic Congressman Calls for Joe Biden to End Campaign After Debate Performance Stirs Party...
EconoTimes· 5 days agoThis bold comment comes in the wake of Biden's recent performance at the Presidential debates, which...
Exit poll shows landslide win for Britain's Labour Party amid frustration with Conservatives
MPR News· 5 days agoBritain’s Labour Party was headed for a huge majority in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions ...
Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark will play on the same team for the WNBA All-Star game
MPR News· 7 days agoAngel Reese and Caitlin Clark will play on the same team in this year’s WNBA All-Star game, as they take on members of the U.S. women’s basketball Olympic team. The game will be broadcast July 20 on ABC at 8:30 p.m. ET, the league announced Tuesday.
Greece's new 6-day workweek law takes effect, bucking a trend
MPR News· 5 days agoGreece enacted a new employment law this week that lays out a six-day workweek — at a time when dozens of other countries are increasingly seeing positive results from experiments with four-day ...
Volunteers who lived in a NASA-created Mars replica for over a year have emerged
MPR News· 2 days agoFour volunteers who spent more than a year living in a 1,700-square-foot space created by NASA to simulate the environment on Mars have emerged. Haston and the other three crew members — Anca ...