When an extraterrestrial rock fell to Earth in June, it brought about a sonic growth within the Southeast earlier than crashing via the roof of a house in Georgia. Now, researchers say the McDonough Meteorite is older than our planet.
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The Israeli army focused and killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif late Sunday after accusing him of main a Hamas cell. Al-Sharif, a distinguished 28-year-old journalist who lined the conflict from inside Gaza, beforehand denied the allegation. Six different folks, together with at the very least three extra Al Jazeera journalists, had been killed within the assault, which occurred close to the doorway of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Hospital director Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya mentioned the journalists had been in a tent marked with a “Press” signal. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 186 journalists have been killed because the starting of the conflict practically two years in the past. Of these, at the very least 178 were “Palestinians killed by Israel.” Minutes earlier than he was killed, Al-Sharif posted on social media: “If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
President Donald Trump is predicted to hold a press conference later this morning to announce plans to curb violent crime in Washington, DC. Since February, Trump has incessantly threatened a federal takeover of the nation’s capital as a result of, as he remarked on his social media web site, “Crime in Washington, DC, is totally out of control.” However, in accordance to preliminary knowledge from DC police, this 12 months’s crime numbers are decrease than final 12 months’s. Trump additionally mentioned he would make the Capital safer and extra stunning than ever earlier than, and that the homeless inhabitants would have to instantly transfer out. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” Trump posted on Sunday. He didn’t say what companies had been going to be supplied or the place the homeless inhabitants can be taken.
The authorized battle over President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to quell protests in Los Angeles heads to court today. In June, lots of of individuals held demonstrations within the metropolis to protest immigration raids by ICE. In response, Trump deployed 4,000 National Guard members over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass. Now, a choose will decide if Trump violated a 147-year-old regulation that permits the president to federalize the Guard throughout instances of precise or threatened revolt or invasion, or when common forces can’t implement US legal guidelines. Newsom’s attorneys say Trump illegally made an “unprecedented power grab” and violated the Constitution by overruling native authorities to ship within the army. Trump’s attorneys mentioned the National Guard troops had been dispatched solely to shield federal property and personnel and didn’t interact in any regulation enforcement actions.
Texas Republicans’ latest effort to redraw the state’s congressional districts in the midst of the last decade has thus far been stymied by greater than 50 quorum-breaking Democratic House members who left the state. The GOP’s proposed map might probably remove 5 Democratic US House seats forward of the 2026 midterms. Such a partisan change may additionally have repercussions in Washington, DC, the place House Republicans maintain a razor-thin majority. Conservative leaders have vowed to punish, arrest and take away the Democratic lawmakers from workplace. Democrats say they won’t enable the brand new maps to advance within the legislature, regardless of Republican threats. So, how will this political standoff shake out? Here are four possible outcomes.
More than 10 million folks throughout the Midwest stay below flood alerts this morning as heavy rains proceed to fall. Milwaukee was hit particularly hard by storms over the weekend and is on observe to break its each day rainfall file of 14.5 inches. On Sunday, Milwaukee County declared a state of emergency because the Milwaukee River crested to a historic 11.19 ft. Flash floods swamped roads and stranded automobiles, prompting first responders to make dozens of water rescues. Even the Wisconsin State Fair had to shut down early as a result of heavy rains flooded the fairgrounds. The extreme weather is a part of the identical storm system that introduced wind gusts of greater than 80 mph to Nebraska on Saturday and killed one individual. Hundreds of inmates on the Nebraska State Penitentiary additionally had to be relocated after the storms broken two housing models, the AP reported.
Wisconsin points state of emergency amid historic rainfall
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A volunteer found the dinosaur tracks whereas eradicating particles in central Texas.
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The horror film grossed over $42 million domestically and topped the field workplace over the weekend.
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That’s how a lot Louisiana authorities have agreed to pay to a person who was partially paralyzed from the waist down after a trooper shot him in the back throughout a 2018 visitors cease after which falsely reported it as a Taser discharge.
Hanks shared this tribute on his Instagram web page concerning the astronaut who died on Aug. 7. Hanks performed Lovell within the 1995 Oscar-winning film “Apollo 13.”
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The Situation Room celebrates 20 years on the air
“The Situation Room” with NCS’s Wolf Blitzer celebrates 20 years on the air.