Family, fans bid adieu to icon Jerry Lee Lewis
Family, friends and fans are preparing to bid farewell to rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis at memorial services held in his north Louisiana home town (November 5)
Dozens injured as tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma
Tornadoes tore through parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Friday (Nov. 4), killing at least one person, injuring dozens of others and leaving dozens of homes and buildings in ruins.…
1 dead, dozens hurt after tornadoes hit Oklahoma, Texas; Gov. Stitt declares state of emergency
Tornadoes tore through southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas on Friday, killing a 90-year-old man, injuring two dozen others and leaving more than 100 homes and buildings in ruin. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt surveyed damage…
Paid Twitter verification is rolling out: What to know about Elon Musk’s chaotic Twitter takeover
Elon Musk became the owner of Twitter on Oct. 27, paying $44 billion for the social network. Many Twitter employees were fired on Friday, part of Musk’s plan to shrink…
Did you win $1.6 billion? These are the numbers for the Powerball drawing for Nov. 5, 2022
The Powerball jackpot stands at an estimated $1.6 billion. The cash value is $782.4 million. The winning numbers were drawn on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. Powerball winning numbers The winning numbers for…
Aaron Carter, singer and reality TV star, found dead at 34 in California home
Singer Aaron Carter, who began performing as a child and had hit albums starting in his teen years, was found dead Saturday at his home in Southern California. He was 34.…
Carter Center to monitor voting in Fulton County
The Carter Center is training nonpartisan observers to monitor midterm elections in Fulton County, Georgia (November 5)
Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism
Long before our ancestors evolved large brains and language, even before they tamed fire or made stone tools, they started doing something no mammal had done before: walking on two…
News Briefs from around the World: November 2022
BULGARIA Scientists determined that two teeth, left uncatalogued in a museum for decades, belong to a long-extinct European panda. The beast likely lived in a swampy forest, a radically different…
How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence
A week and a half before the midterm elections, a man broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house, screaming “Where’s Nancy?” and attacked her husband with a hammer. David DePape, charged…