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Man, 73, dies in skydiving incident after parachute fails to deploy

Man, 73, dies in skydiving incident after parachute fails to deploy

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 73-year-old man has died in a skydiving incident after he suffered a hard landing when his parachute didn’t fully deploy during his jump, police say. The incident, which happened last Wednesday in Eloy, Arizona — approximately 70 miles south of Phoenix — when […]

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How climate change contributes to the atmospheric rivers slamming the West Coast

How climate change contributes to the atmospheric rivers slamming the West Coast

Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The California coast is currently getting pummeled with heavy rain from atmospheric rivers, essentially rivers in the sky that collect moisture from tropical areas and redistribute the water to higher latitudes. The current El Niño pattern is also favoring […]

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Meet the 79-year-old who has traveled to all 193 countries in the world

Meet the 79-year-old who has traveled to all 193 countries in the world

Luisa Yu (NEW YORK) — A 79-year-old woman has achieved her goal of traveling to every country in the world and she told “Good Morning America” it has been a “dream come true.” Luisa Yu said ever since she was a young girl in the Philippines, she has “always” dreamed […]

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California storm live updates: Atmospheric river brings flooding, mudslides to Southern California

California storm live updates: Atmospheric river brings flooding, mudslides to Southern California

imran kadir photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A second storm within one week is pummeling nearly the entire state of California with heavy rain and life-threatening flooding. Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued a state of emergency for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara […]

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NASA announces new ‘super-Earth’: Exoplanet orbits in ‘habitable zone,’ is only 137 light-years away

NASA announces new ‘super-Earth’: Exoplanet orbits in ‘habitable zone,’ is only 137 light-years away

ElOjoTorpe/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Could a recently discovered “super-Earth” have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated “fairly close to us” — only 137 light-years away — and orbits within a “habitable zone,” according to NASA. Astronomers say the planet, dubbed TOI-715 b, […]

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Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino speaks out after saving son from choking

Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino speaks out after saving son from choking

Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino and Lauren Sorrentino attend MTV’s Jersey Shore Family Vacation NYC Premiere Party at Hard Rock Hotel New York on August 02, 2023. CREDIT: Santiago Felipe/Stringer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Reality TV star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and his wife, Lauren Sorrentino, jumped into action recently when […]

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Study of sea sponges lead scientists to believe Earth has already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming

Study of sea sponges lead scientists to believe Earth has already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Earth may have already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming and could be soon heading for 2 degrees of warming, researchers have found after studying sea sponges in the Caribbean. The study of 300 years of ocean temperature records kept preserved within sea sponges in […]

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Black women suffer disproportionately from ‘superwoman schema’

Black women suffer disproportionately from ‘superwoman schema’

JGI/Jamie Grill/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When her firstborn child estranged herself from the family after getting married, Glenda Boone, 61, thought her daughter’s new husband was to blame for turning her child against her. It took Boone’s second daughter, Lauren, 32, to explain to her that even though their […]

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Migrants allegedly snatched phones from 62 women in NYC crime spree: Police

Migrants allegedly snatched phones from 62 women in NYC crime spree: Police

Tim Drivas Photography/GETTY Images (NEW YORK) — Three migrants were arrested in the Bronx overnight Monday for a citywide crime spree that included stealing women’s phones off the street, police said. The New York Police Department executed a search warrant at the suspected safe house and made the arrests. They […]

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California weather live updates: Man killed by falling redwood tree in Yuba City, police say

California weather live updates: Man killed by falling redwood tree in Yuba City, police say

imran kadir photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A second round of back-to-back atmospheric rivers is bringing dangerous weather conditions to nearly the entire state of California this week. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued a state of emergency for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, […]

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