Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. Space missions provide us with an incredible gift beyond knowledge: perspective. More color photos taken by the Ingenuity helicopter this week revealed what it looks like to fly on Mars, with the Perseverance rover making a cameo. It’s astounding to think of a 4-pound rotorcraft
Continue Reading For more than a week, protesters have marched in the streets of a small, quaint, North Carolina city that has been rocked by the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. Civil rights leaders and attorneys have converged on Elizabeth City demanding answers and justice after Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office deputies fatally shot Brown and the
Continue Reading The Rev. Calvin Skinner has given hundreds of sermons, but he says this past Sunday’s felt more urgent than ever. “The city of Knoxville has hit its boiling point,” he told CNN. “The case of Anthony Thompson Jr. really solidifies this feeling that enough is enough.” Thompson, 17, was fatally shot by police when officers
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Three Colorado officers who laughed at body camera footage of the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia are “no longer employed” by the department, Loveland Police Chief Robert Ticer said Friday. Karen Garner was arrested in June for walking out of a Walmart with $13.88 worth of items, according to a federal lawsuit
Continue Reading(CNN) — Aquí antes había una zona de construcción ruidosa. Ahora parece un pueblo fantasma, congelado en el tiempo. La maquinaria pesada se encuentra estacionada e inmóvil. Montones de bolardos de acero se extienden hasta donde alcanza la vista. El gobierno de Trump construyó más de 724 kilómetros de vallas a lo largo de la
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The door was open and a “frail little voice” called out for the brothers to come inside. Sitting in a medical lifting chair was their mother, a woman in her late 80s who Martin Hauser had never known. After 30 years searching for his biological family, Hauser, 59, finally got to meet his birth mother
Continue ReadingWith the coronavirus pandemic spiraling out of control in India and other developing regions, the United States this week committed to sharing 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with other countries. But that’s a drop in the bucket. The US has bought or contracted to buy more than 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines.
Continue ReadingForget the Oscars. If you’re looking for star power — in the business world, at least — it doesn’t get any bigger than Warren Buffett, and he’ll be live from Los Angeles on Saturday for the latest Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting. For the second year in a row, the meeting will be virtual because
Continue Reading In the hills above Sarajevo, thousands of uniform white headstones line the slopes, marking the graves of just some of the victims of the Bosnian War. They’re a constant reminder of the bloody conflict in the early 1990s that claimed the lives of around 100,000 people. This city, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was
Continue ReadingThe economy is on the path to recovery but it’s still far from repaired. Yet investors and economists are already worried it might be growing too fast. Here’s what experts actually mean when they talk about the “overheating” economy. Just over a year ago, the US economy faced its worst downturn on record as businesses
Continue ReadingWarren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway returned to profitability in the first quarter of this year after reporting a nearly $50 billion loss during the first quarter of 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Berkshire Hathaway, a sprawling conglomerate that owns companies ranging from the Geico insurance giant and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad to well-known consumer
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Cricket fan Shitu Anand Patil has recently recovered from Covid-19. She’s also acutely aware of the suffering families in India are gripped by amid an overwhelming surge in coronavirus infections. Those circumstances explain the unease she has sometimes been feeling while watching the Indian Premier League (IPL), the country’s most lucrative sporting competition which has
Continue Reading Eli Broad, an entrepreneur and businessman known for creating two billion-dollar businesses and establishing the iconic Broad Museum in Los Angeles, has died at the age of 87, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation said Friday. “As a businessman, Eli saw around corners, as a philanthropist he saw the problems in the world and tried
Continue ReadingBritish artist L.S. Lowry’s “Going to the Match” painting is expected to sell at auction for up to $4 million in June, Sotheby’s auction house said on Friday. “‘Going to the Match’ is among the earliest known, if not the earliest, depiction of one of L.S. Lowry’s most iconic and timeless subjects — that of
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Cal Fire and the California Highway Patrol are on the scene of a deadly roll-over crash in Whitewater. This is on eastbound I-10 near highway 62. Officials said that one car rolled over and landed on the roof killing at least one person. No word yet on if anyone else was in the car at
Continue ReadingA special election in Texas on Saturday features a sprawling field of Republicans and Democrats competing for the US House seat formerly held by the late GOP Rep. Ron Wright, who died in February after contracting Covid-19. Candidates from both parties are competing on the same ballot, with 23 candidates in total, including 11 Republicans
Continue ReadingFor Isha Johansen, a journey that began by helping to give kids displaced by war a semblance of a normal childhood, has led her to become the first West African woman elected to the council of soccer’s world governing body, FIFA. “The narrative about Sierra Leone was child soldiers,” Johansen tells CNN Sport’s Alex Thomas.
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Update: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed one man has died after a late-night shooting in Coachella. Deputies said that person had one gunshot wound and was taken to the hospital where he later died. Deputies have no information on a suspect at this time. No one has been taken into custody at this time.
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North Gene Autry Trail is closed from Via Escuela to Salvia road on Saturday morning while the Palm Springs Police Department investigates the scene of a crash there. No word yet if anyone was injured. Officials said the road is closed while they investigate. We have reached out to the Palm Springs Police Department for
Continue Reading One of America’s most famous sporting events takes place Saturday in front of a reduced crowd, a sign that the country is returning to normal but the pandemic remains dangerous, The 147th running of the Kentucky Derby returns to its position as the first leg of thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown at Churchill Downs, where
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