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An update on the gasoline situation in the eastern US tonight a very slow improvement with 43 percent of Virginia's gas stations dry... 63 percent of gas stations in Metro Atlanta were dry this afternoon... 4,057 deaths following vaccination now reported in the US through May 7th with 17,190 serious injuries... 28 blood clot cases stemming from the AstraZeneca vaccine... Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga extending coronavirus restrictions to additional parts of Japan... The general heading logistics for vaccine distribution in Canada is out tonight... The Conflict In Israel-Rockets and Riots Continue Friday... Rocket fire continued from Gaza into Israel...

It may be a work of art. It may have some more useful purpose. Or maybe it's some combination of the two. But Dwayne Romine would like to know for sure. He and his 12-year-old son, Greg, were looking for deer tracks on some family property near Indianola recently when the older Romine spotted something a little unusual in the ground. "I said 'look at that, a piece of rusted metal'," he recalled. "Greg said, 'Naw, that's just an old tree branch,' but I said 'No it's not.' "Sure enough, when we pulled it up, it was metal." That alone...

WASHINGTON, April 16 (UPI) -- Opportunity's phenomenal luck continues. Not only did NASA's rover land smack-dab in the middle of a neatly excavated and navigable crater on Mars, where it promptly uncovered persuasive evidence that water once flowed across the red planet, and not only has it been performing nearly flawlessly since it touched down on Jan. 24. Now, it also, essentially, has stubbed its toe on a rock whose discovery portends cosmic implications. A few days ago, on its slow roll across the Martian terrain at its landing site at Meridiani Planum, an iron-oxide-rich area near the planet's equator,...