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Australian police chase koala through strain station
SYDNEY — A wayward koala led police on a low-speed, early morning chase through a Sydney train station, video released on Tuesday showed, surprising commuters in the city. Video provided by Transport for New South Wales showed the koala ambling through Casula station on Friday, around 21 miles south-west of the city’s central business district. The video showed the koala checking out an elevator before opting to descend a stairway. Trains in the area were…
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Netanyahu to speak with Biden on attack; IDF and Hezbollah clash at border
Share IDF troops raising Israeli flag in Lebanon ‘inappropriate,’ State Department says via AFP – Getty Images The State Department said it was inappropriate for Israeli soldiers to raise their flag in southern Lebanon, where the IDF has ordered the evacuation of dozens of villages. “It’s obviously inappropriate for Israeli soldiers to take that step,…
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Florida makes last-minute prep before landfall
Share Bill Nye explains climate change’s role in monster Milton Milton exploded from a Category 1 storm to a Category 5 storm in a matter of hours. The reason for the rapid intensification? Climate change. “Science Guy” Bill Nye breaks down how climate change relates to hurricanes. Share Milton forces Bucs and Lightning to leave…
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Grazer beats the behemoth who killed her cub to win this year’s title
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer. Grazer beat Chunk by more than 40,000 votes cast by fans watching live cameras at explore.org of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. Fans cast votes…
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Hurricane Helene was wetter and windier due to climate change, report finds
The Sumamry A new report found that Hurricane Helene’s wind speeds were 11% more intense and its rainfall totals were about 10% higher because of climate change. The researchers expect Milton to behave similarly and said it is also likely to be worse because of climate change. The high sea surface temperatures that helped both…
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Brazil lifts ban on X after Elon Musk complies with court orders
Elon Musk’s X is getting back up and running in Brazil after a months-long standoff between the company and the country’s federal supreme court minister, Alexandre de Moraes. “X is proud to return to Brazil,” the company wrote in a post on X from its global government affairs account. “Giving tens of millions of Brazilians access to our…
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Mike Rogers and Elissa Slotkin tangle over national security and tout bipartisan credentials in Michigan Senate debate
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin and former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers clashed repeatedly here Tuesday over who would best represent their purple state during the first debate of their hotly contested Senate race. The tone during their hour-long debate, hosted by NBC News affiliate WOOD-TV, was mostly civil. But there were several…
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Kennedy family matriarch Ethel Kennedy, 96, hospitalized after stroke
Ethel Kennedy, matriarch of one of America’s most famous political families, has been hospitalized after a stroke, her family said Tuesday. The 96-year-old widow of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and mother of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sleeping on Thursday when she had the stroke, and is now receiving treatment at a hospital, according…
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‘Life-threatening’ storm surge likely as Hurricane Milton takes aim at Florida
Storm surge is the abnormal rise in water levels during a storm, as heavy hurricane winds push a bulge of water toward shore as depths become more shallow. While winds are the primary cause of storm surge, it’s also affected by the storm’s angle of approach, the shape of the ocean floor and the low…
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How hospitals in Milton’s path are preparing for the hurricane
As Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida, the staff at Sarasota Memorial Hospital are getting ready. The facility, located in Sarasota, about an hour south of Tampa, is in the path of the hurricane but isn’t evacuating because it’s both the largest and the safest hospital in the area. “We’re probably on the highest ground…