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A 20-year-old man is accused flying across the country and trying to murder someone with whom he had an online gaming dispute in a hammer attack. Edward Kang, 20, flew from Newark, New Jersey, to Jacksonville, Florida, to confront someone he had an online dispute with, Nassau County, New Jersey, Sheriff Bill Leeper said. Court records show he was charged Monday with second-degree attempted murder and attempted burglary.

A Korean Air Boeing 737 Max 8 experienced a sudden emergency shortly after taking off from Incheon International Airport, plummeting 26,900 feet before making multiple erratic loops before stabilizing. The plane, which departed from Incheon International Airport at 4:45 p.m. local time on Saturday, suffered issues with its pressurization system while flying over South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju. According to data from Flight Radar, the plane began descending sharply, dropping nearly five miles in 15 minutes. Commercial jet airliners typically cruise at altitudes ranging from 30,000 to 40,000 feet. So, assuming the aircraft was flying at the upper...

Suitable Occasion On Monday, NASA had to suddenly cut a planned spacewalk outside of the International Space Station short after astronaut Tracy Dyson discovered water squirting from her spacesuit and obscuring her visor with ice. Now, the astronauts are investigating what may have caused the leak, kicking off what NASA is calling a "spacewalk review" in a Tuesday update. "[Astronaut Mike] Barratt began Tuesday morning troubleshooting Dyson’s spacesuit and inspecting the suit’s components," NASA wrote, while Dyson "wrapped up her day swapping out a water resupply tank in the Destiny laboratory module." Oddly, the next spacewalk scheduled for next week...

June 25 (UPI) -- The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation apologized for a highway sign that misspelled the world "Central" as "Cenrtal." Drivers on Cottman Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia noticed the new sign directing travelers to southbound Interstate 95 read, "Cenrtal Phila," and photos of the sign quickly went viral Monday. PennDOT apologized Tuesday on social media. "We were so focused on getting this done and reopening the 95 Cottman ramp that we moved a little too quickly... and forgot to proofread. Sorry, Philadelphia," the post said. The post was accompanied by a photo of the corrected "Central Phila" sign.

Sporting goods store owners in Cody had a hard time comprehending a photo on Yellowstone: Invasion of the Idiots that showed a canoe tied horizontally on a Subaru. Both said they had never seen anything like it before and expressed dismay at today's gene pool. Jen Mignard, founder of the "Yellowstone National Park: Invasion of the Idiots" Facebook page couldn't believe it when she saw this canoe strapped sideways on top of a Subaru. (Jen Mignard, "Yellowstone National Park: Invasion of the Idiots") Something has to be pretty astounding to shock Jen Mignard. As the founder of “Yellowstone National Park:...

So, I read Betelgeuse is going to explode, and its brightness will rival or even exceed the luminosity of the moon. I'm like, BET, how cool will that be??? I research it a little, and I find out it could happen any time, from today all the way out to 1000 years from now. I'm like, DAMMIT. I won't even be alive a few decades from now! I WANT MY BETELGUESE SUPERNOVA ***TODAY*** Everyone who wants the same thing, sign this Petition to God to have Betelgeuse supernova right away!

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An extinct ribbonlike sea creature about the size of a human hand was one of the earliest animals to evolve a precursor of a backbone. Scientists recently identified the animal’s nerve cord by using a topsy-turvy twist. They turned its fossils upside down. Paleontologist Charles Doolittle Wolcott first encountered fossils of Pikaia in the Burgess Shale deposits of British Columbia, dating to 508 million years ago, and described them in a 1911 treatise. The animal measured roughly 6.3 inches (16...

Lokiceratops rangiformis made its home in parts of what's now northern Montana and is thought to have the largest frill horns ever seen among its kind to date. A reconstruction of Lokiceratops surprised by a crocodilian in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, USA. Illustration: Andrey Atuchin/Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scientists have discovered a new, very cool-looking dinosaur. The intricately horned beast is a relative of the famous Triceratops and has been named Lokiceratops rangiformis. It’s thought to have roamed around the western half of North America over 78 million years ago, back when the continent was...

The couple was vacationing at Hutchinson Island, Florida, with their 6 children.. A Chester County, Pennsylvania couple has died after they were caught in a rip current while vacationing with their six children off Hutchinson Island, which is near Port St. Lucie, Florida. The victims have been identified as 51-year-old Brian Warter and his 48-year-old girlfriend, Erica Wishard, both of Downingtown. The family was swimming around 1:30 p.m. behind the Marriott Hotel when the couple and two of their children were swept out by a rip current. Police said the kids were able to break the current and tried to...

Something very odd happened to me yesterday. I had noticed a mole on my back that concerned me and rather than wait a few weeks for an appointment, I dropped into my dermatologist for him to have a quick look. He gave me a name for it, "Seborrheic Keratoses", and said it benign and was nothing to worry about. He sent me off with a pamphlet about it. I had not done any searches online, for either skin cancer in general or for this specific lesion, not now or ever. I have watched cardio docs on Youtube, but it doesn't...

Hacker: Underpaid? Backbench MPs, Darling? Being an MP is a vast subsidised ego trip. It's a job for which you need no qualifications, no compulsory hours of work, no performance standards. A warm room and subsidised meals for a bunch of self-opinionated windbags and busybodies who suddenly find people taking them seriously because they got letters "MP" after their names. How can they be underpaid when there're about two hundred applicants for every vacancy? You could fill every seat twenty times over even if they have to pay to do the job. Sir Frederick: [...] there are four words to...

The idea of a giant virus lurking on a vast ice sheet might sound like the plot to the latest science fiction blockbuster. Giant viruses were first discovered in 1981, when researchers found them in the ocean. These viruses had specialised in infecting green algae in the sea. Later, giant viruses were found in soil on land and even in humans. But it's become a reality, after researchers discovered giant viruses while exploring the Greenland ice sheet. Before you panic that the viruses could spark the next pandemic, there's good news. Scientists from Aarhus University say the viruses could actually...

A disturbing find on a broken-down bus led to the arrest of one man and the rescue of dozens of abused animals. Pennsylvania’s Eastern Adams Regional Police Department discovered the converted school bus disabled and stuck in traffic Saturday, according to WPMT-TV in York. Officers ran the identification of the driver, Shawn Hirschbine, and arrested him on an outstanding warrant out of West Virginia. Authorities then searched the bus and a trailer it was pulling, uncovering a disgusting situation that nobody expected. According to WPMT, nearly 40 animals were found crammed in squalid living conditions. Dogs, ducks, chickens, turkeys, a...

In a recent incident that unfolded during a recent Team Combat League showdown, junior featherweight boxer Tramaine Williams, hailing from New Haven, Connecticut, faced a distressing moment during his bout with Ryan Allen. The match, part of the NYC Attitude vs. Las Vegas Hustle showcase, took place at Thunder Studio on June 20, 2024, where Williams represented the NYC Attitude squad, which ultimately emerged as the winners of the event. The Team Combat League event follows a set structure involving 24 three-minute rounds, with athletes engaging in one-round matches across eight weight classes. Each team fields two fighters per weight...

Yoshiharu Watanabe earned a Guinness World Record by growing a 63-leaf clover. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June 20 (UPI) -- A Japanese man borrowed some of the luck of the Irish and broke a Guinness World Record by growing a 63-leaf clover. Yoshiharu Watanabe, 45, started cross-pollinating clovers at his Nasushiobara home in 2012 with an aim toward breaking the world record. "Since the number of leaves has increased year by year, I have been aiming for the Guinness World Records title ever since," he told Guinness World Records. Watanabe said he used a combination of letting...

Three Texas men have been cited in connection with the illegal possession of an alligator in the New Orleans French Quarter. On May 30, the men were seen at Esplanade and Dauphine with the alligator. Nearly a month later, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries identified the men as Ediberto Sanchez, 48, Matthew Erwin, 45, and Elgein Konesheck, 48, all from Sealy, Texas. The men told Wildlife and Fisheries agents that they found the alligator near a park in Lafitte and released it into a bayou in New Orleans unharmed after being seen with it in the French Quarter....

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The misbehaving visitors had thrown items like bamboo shoots, lollipop sticks and cigarettes into the pandas’ outdoor enclosure on separate occasions across a three-month period.A well-known panda research and breeding centre in China has issued lifetime bans to a dozen tourists over their ill conduct, drawing renewed attention to misbehaving travellers in the country. The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on Monday (Jun 17) posted a notice on its official WeChat account listing 12 tourists who were banned from the park over “uncivilised behaviour” between April and June this year. The culprits were aged between 26 and 61,...

A vase purchased for $3.99 at a Maryland thrift store turned out to be a nearly 2,000-year-old Mayan artifact. Anna Lee Dozier of Washington, said she was shopping at the 2A Thrift Store in Clinton when her attention was grabbed by an unusual vase. "It looked old-ish, but I thought maybe 20, 30 years old and some kind of tourist reproduction thing so I brought it home," Dozier told WUSA-TV. Dozier said she was visiting Mexico on a work trip earlier this year when she noticed some items on display at the Museum of Anthropology bore a startling resemblance...

So shiny. Not aliens. Image credit: LVMPD 2020, it's fair to say, was an odd year. With a pandemic moving across the world and all the life changes that involved, it's easy to forget smaller stories, like that weird few months when monoliths started popping up around the world like Starbucks, sometimes containing cryptic messages. Well, good news if you missed it, because they are back and doing what they love; randomly appearing in deserts. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department stumbled across one such "mysterious monolith" last weekend. The new monolith looks a lot like the old monoliths. Image...