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Starting on Sept. 15, the space agency’s PACE satellite (which stands for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite) will circle the Earth every 98 minutes. While it’s overhead, the satellite will be collecting important environmental data, measuring how clouds and particles in the atmosphere absorb and reflect sunlight. Here’s where you (and everyone else on land) comes in: Scientists want to compare what they’re seeing in the sky with what you’re seeing on the ground. The pictures will help researchers to better understand the far-away images they’re capturing from space, said Dr. Andrew Sayer, the PACE atmosphere lead. Because...

During a famous 1992 interview on “60 Minutes,” a studio production light suddenly fell while Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton were speaking. The unexpected moment nearly caused an accident, but the crew quickly intervened. This behind-the-scenes incident was not seen by the millions of viewers who watched the broadcast at the time.

What happens when two massive hurricanes collide? It looks like we are about to find out. Hurricane Polo and Hurricane Odalys are heading directly toward one another. Meteorologists have some theories about what will happen as they slam into one another, but nobody really knows. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Nolo is poised to become Hurricane Nolo. We are being told that it could drop several feet of rain on some parts of Hawaii. Of course the east coast is not being left out of the chaos either. An absolutely huge nor’easter is already causing severe flooding on the east coast. We...

A veteran Chicago police dispatcher was pinned inside her wrecked car, with nine broken ribs and two fractured vertebrae, when a man climbed into the back seat and stole her driver’s license and credit cards, prosecutors say. The man’s girlfriend then got into the front seat and began patting the injured victim’s waistline, apparently looking for more valuables. Victoria Mesarina, a dispatcher with the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications for 26 years, was driving home in uniform when another vehicle slammed into the driver’s side of her car in the 3300 block of West Douglas Boulevard around 2:30...

>IMG SRC="https://wltreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/hitler-enigma-museum-collage-final-1536x864.png">width=65%> An encrypted Nazi military message sat unread for decades. GPT-6 Astra helped break it in roughly 10 hours. The 82-letter German Army transmission was sent on July 10, 1941, while Adolf Hitler’s forces were driving deep into the Soviet Union. Its contents were not a grand strategy or a secret order from Hitler’s headquarters. They were more immediate: a field message asking for a route of march, reporting a position in Rosenow and demanding an immediate reply by radio. That modest plaintext had remained hidden behind one of the most notorious encryption systems of World War II. Carter...

Today's topic: M.C. Escher

OpenAI has disclosed six cases in which its AI models concealed errors, bypassed restrictions, used unauthorized resources or found unexpected ways to communicate. None caused a public catastrophe. That does not make them easy to dismiss. The artificial intelligence debate usually jumps straight from “helpful chatbot” to “machine that wipes out humanity.” There is a lot of empty space between those two extremes, and that is where the more immediate problem is beginning to show up. OpenAI says some of its models have already taken actions they were never authorized to take. One searched for an exposed API key and...

A bull elk in Estes Park, Colorado, has been strutting around town with an antler stuck in its neck after a fight during rutting season. Elk sometimes get their antler racks entangled in a fight, but one ecologist said he's "never seen anything like that." A bull elk in Estes Park, Colorado, is strutting proudly around town with a broken-off piece of a rival's antler jabbed into his upper neck. “He seems to be doing just fine. He’s kind of wearing it (the antler chunk) like a prize,” wildlife photographer Kristy Williams told Cowboy State Daily. Retired U.S. Fish and...

An Israeli-owned restaurant in New York City has found itself at the center of an online controversy after adding arayes to its menu, prompting accusations from pro-Palestinian activists that it was appropriating Arab and Palestinian cuisine. Shifka, a Mediterranean pita restaurant located at 324 Bowery in Manhattan, recently added an “Arayes Burger" to its menu, consisting of beef, caramelized onions and tahini-yogurt. According to a report by Al Araby TV, a video published by the restaurant promoting the dish sparked criticism on social media, with users accusing the Israeli-owned establishment of “stealing" another Arab dish. Al Araby presented the controversy...

Neuroscientists in the US have successfully adapted mice to have functioning human cells inside their own brains. The researchers hope that potential treatments for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases that only occur in humans could now be tested on the laboratory rodents. While mice with brains that are partly human might sound like a Kafkaesque experiment, the scientists said these are not "mice that think like humans". The animals are genetically engineered - and surgically altered - so that some of their brain tissue is human. ... First, they genetically-engineered mice to develop almost none of their own cerebral cortex –...

Yirsi Machado Rivera has been arrested on burglary and battery charges Yirsi Machado Rivera allegedly threw a bucket of poop on her neighbor, whom she believed was sleeping with her husband. She and the victim were neighbors in a split trailer in the Royal Country Mobile Homes in Miami. She has been arrested on burglary and battery charges A Florida woman is accused of throwing poop on her neighbor after suspecting infidelity. On Monday, Sept. 7, Yirsi Machado Rivera allegedly threw a bucket of poop on her neighbor, whom she believed was sleeping with her husband, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office...

A small, forested island that mysteriously appeared and vanished on a reservoir in British Columbia, Canada, was not a mirage. It was on the move. Boaters first spotted the island near Finlay Bay on Williston Reservoir in late July. When BC Hydro began receiving photos and videos of it on Aug. 13, the power company initially questioned whether the images were real. The floating island near the Ospika Arm of the Williston Reservoir on Aug. 31, 2026. (Image credit: Rocky Avery/Facebook) “When we first received photos and video of a floating island covered in trees, we weren’t entirely convinced,” BC...

Law enforcement officers met an American Airlines flight upon its arrival at Miami International Airport late Friday night following reports of a female passenger undressing and behaving indecently mid-flight. American Airlines Flight 1779 departed Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) just after 9 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 11, 2025, nearly two hours behind its scheduled departure time, according to public flight-tracking data. The flight landed in Miami at approximately 11:23 p.m. EDT. As the Airbus A319 was en route to Florida, flight attendants alerted the cockpit crew to a disturbance involving a passenger in row 9. According to Aircraft...

Image for article: Thousands of Michigan residents receive licenses with random dude's photo Imagine if there was a random guy in the corner of your new driver's license and you had zero explanation for it. Well, that happened to 8,000 Michiganders! A whole batch of IDs was printed with the face, along with the birthdate Jan. 12, 1967, and the actual words "last name," "first name," and "middle" printed on the back of the card. Michigan resident Lenita Nelson was one of the people who received a driver's license containing the error, but she didn't notice it at first, telling...

The research involved fitting a far north Queensland species, the giant burrowing cockroach (Macropanesthia rhinoceros), with lightweight electronics and cameras. They were also fitted with remotely activated auto-injection systems custom-made for the species. In proof-of-concept testing, the paraborgs achieved 95% success with close-range injection (positioned within 15cm of the target). The complete navigation-and-injection task succeeded in 72% of trials. PhD candidate Hai Nhan Le said accurate positioning of the paraborgs was one of the key engineering challenges. “The cyborg insect has to navigate to the target, position itself accurately and remain stable enough to perform the injection,” Le said. The...

Behold, what the world needs more of: An obese black woman in cartoon form! From the BBC: Lady In Blue by New York artist Tschabalala Self, which pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman, is the 16th artwork to feature on the plinth since 1998. ... Self said she had set out to put an ordinary contemporary Londoner on a site more usually associated with statues of monarchs and military commanders. 'My work Lady In Blue will bring to Trafalgar Square a woman that many can relate to,' the artist said. Question: Trafalgar Square is a monument to the great...

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A St. Louis postal worker has been federally indicted after allegedly dumping an astonishing 30,000 pieces of Americans’ mail in overgrown vacant lots instead of delivering it. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, 54-year-old Armond Paige was indicted on September 2 on one count of delaying or destroying mail while employed by the U.S. Postal Service. Federal prosecutors allege Paige discarded the mail in vacant, weed-covered lots across St. Louis from approximately 2024 through April 29, 2026. At the time of the alleged scheme, Paige was working out of the Maryville Gardens Post Office...

This has been a debate for decades. Did this man survive his parachute hijacking attempt? After years of studying the case files on this crime, I believe that he lived and provide my reasons behind thinking this.

Kimi Räikkönen’s son Robin has taken a significant step in his racing career by joining the Red Bull Junior Team. The 11-year-old will officially become part of Red Bull’s driver development program from 2027 after establishing himself as a promising talent in karting. Robin has competed in karting from an early age and already achieved success across national and international Rotax and WSK competition as he begins following his father into motorsport. Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies said the focus would be on allowing Räikkönen to develop at his own pace rather than burdening him with expectations created by...