The company behind a search for pilot Amelia Earhart’s possible crash site in the Pacific said a sonar image believed to resemble her plane turned out to be the sea floor’s normal shapes.Marine robotics firm Deep Sea Vision said earlier this month on its social media accounts that imagery from an underwater drone deployed during the expedition turned out to show a “natural rock formation.””After 11 months the waiting has finally ended and unfortunately our target was not Amelia’s Electra 10E,” it said in the Nov. 6 post, referring to her twin engine Lockheed 10-E Electra. The company, based in…
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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has sounded the alarm after detecting bird flu virus in a retail sample of raw milk produced by Raw Farm, LLC in Fresno County. This urgent advisory follows the detection of the bird flu virus in a retail sample, leading the company to issue a voluntary recall for the product bearing lot code 20241109 with a Best By date of 11/27/2024. Credit: California Department of Public Health While no illnesses have been reported in connection with this contaminated batch, the CDPH is taking no chances. Consumers are advised to return any remaining product…
Is trouble brewing between the MomTok moms? A few recent social media posts might point in that direction.Article continues below advertisementTaylor Frankie Paul’s Big Night Was Seemingly Ignored By MomTokMEGAPaul recently presented at the Country Music Awards, which was a big, exciting moment for the “Mormon Wives” star. After her exciting adventure in Nashville and posting about it on social media, she realized that none of her fellow MomTok moms commented on the moment.Paul took to her Instagram Stories to subtly call out her friends. In her first Instagram Story, she wrote, “Not a single one of my girls from…
“ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION” Some countries, including the so-called High Ambition Coalition (HAC) that groups many African, Asian and European nations, want to discuss the entire “lifecycle” of plastics. That means limiting production, redesigning products for reuse and recycling, and addressing waste. On the other side are countries, largely oil producers like Saudi Arabia and Russia, who want a downstream focus on waste alone. The HAC wants binding global targets on reducing production and warned ahead of the Busan talks that “vested interests” should not be allowed to hamper a deal. The divisions have stymied four previous rounds of talks, producing an unwieldy…
Yamandu Orsi, the candidate for the left-wing Broad Front coalition, is projected to emerge victorious in Uruguay’s run-off election for the presidency. He bested Alvaro Delgado of the ruling National Party to win the tightly fought race, though public opinion polls showed the two candidates in a dead heat in the lead-up to Sunday’s vote. Orsi’s supporters took to the streets in the capital of Montevideo, as the official results started to show the former mayor and history teacher surging ahead. Many waved the party banner: a red, blue and white striped flag with the initials FA for “Frente Amplio”,…
It has been a long time since the South Carolina women’s basketball team has lost a game.Entering Sunday’s game against No. 5 UCLA it had been 43 games to be exact, a streak that went all the way back to the Final Four in the 2022-23 season when they lost to Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in the national semifinal. That winning streak came to an emphatic end on Sunday in a 77-62 loss to UCLA, handing Dawn Staley’s team its first loss of the 2024-25 season. UCLA stormed out of the gate and carried a commanding 43-22 lead into…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For too long, business success has been defined solely by profits and growth. Increasingly, however, entrepreneurs are realizing that true success also includes leaving a legacy of positive impact on society. In real estate, an industry that directly influences communities, there is a unique opportunity to leverage business for social good. Through sustainable developments, support of local initiatives or health-focused designs, the real estate sector plays a crucial role in fostering community transformation.Real estate isn’t just about buying and selling properties; it shapes neighborhoods, impacts the environment and influences people’s lives. By…
The Kongsbreen and Kronebreen glaciers in Svalbard, Norway,Åslund/Norwegian Polar Institute/Greenpeace The mighty collision of two glaciers – Kongsbreen and Kronebreen – in Svalbard, Norway, is captured in a woven patchwork of black and white images taken by the Norwegian Polar Institute in 1967 (main picture, top). Nearly six decades later, a striking panorama of the same site reveals the dramatic ice loss in the Arctic due to climate change (main picture, bottom). “It was difficult to witness because it was such a stark change from the archive photos,” says Christian Åslund, the photographer who captured the most recent shot of…
Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty suggested Sunday that Americans don’t care about traditional FBI background checks for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks as Democrats call for deeper vetting of executive branch nominees.Hagerty, R-Tenn., said Sunday that Americans “don’t care” who conducts background checks for presidential nominees when asked the FBI’s role in conducting a background check on former Fox News host Pete Hegseth.Asked about the common practice of conducting FBI background checks for presidential cabinet nominees, Hagerty told host Jon Karl that Trump getting to work on the “mandate” the American people voted on is more important to Americans than an…