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Sun releases the strongest flare in current cycle from the same region that triggered auroras this weekend

By Kaila Nichols and Taylor Ward, CNN (CNN) — After causing the dazzling waves of aurora borealis this weekend, our Sun isn’t done yet: The strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle occurred Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The flare – deemed an X8.7, with the

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Ship that struck Baltimore bridge lost power twice before crash, NTSB preliminary report finds

By Pete Muntean, Gregory Wallace and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The cargo ship Dali that crashed into Baltimore’s Key Bridge in March had a pair of catastrophic electrical failures minutes before the crash and had experienced two blackouts a day earlier, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.

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Pro-Palestinian protesters reach agreement with Harvard University to end encampment

By Isabel Rosales and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — A group of pro-Palestinian protesters maintaining an encampment at Harvard University have reached an agreement with the university and will end their encampment, the group said in a news release Tuesday. Harvard has agreed to hold reinstatement proceedings “for the over 20 students and student workers suspended by

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Michael Cohen leaves former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York City on October 24

Michael Cohen will face a bruising cross-examination by Trump’s lawyers at the hush money trial

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER, MICHELLE L. PRICE and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen awaits a bruising round of questioning from the former president’s lawyers on Tuesday after testimony that linked the celebrity client to all aspects of a hush money scheme that prosecutors say was

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Three prisoners accused of killing Boston mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger agree to plea deals, prosecutors say

By Holmes Lybrand and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Three inmates charged in the violent killing of notorious Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger while imprisoned with him in West Virginia have accepted plea agreements, court filings show. Fotios Geas and Paul J. DeCologero are accused by prosecutors of bludgeoning Bulger to death as fellow

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1,500 Georgia State University applicants got acceptance emails. It was a mistake

By Sydney Bishop, CNN (CNN) — Congratulations seemed in order for roughly 1,500 undergraduate applicants to Georgia State University. Over 1,000 applicants received a “welcome” email for the 2024-25 school year – before discovering their new status was the result of an error by the school’s admissions office. “The email to the prospective students wasn’t

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Cargo ship will ‘hopefully’ be refloated this week after explosives remove some Baltimore bridge wreckage from vessel

By Nicole Grether, Gloria Pazmino and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The trapped cargo ship Dali will “hopefully” be refloated this week after authorities set off charges at a key portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Monday evening, an official said. The charges helped demolish a portion of the bridge

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Columbia student protesters are demanding divestment. A sign sits erected at the pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment at Columbia University in New York on April 22.

Campus protests over Israel-Hamas war scaled down during US commencement exercises

By The Associated Press Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have spread across U.S. university and college campuses in recent weeks, leading to disruptions and arrests. Some demonstrations extended into weekend graduation celebrations, although they were muted in comparison to the encampments and rallies that have roiled campuses and resulted in nearly 2,900 arrests of students

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Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit Zoox under investigation by US after 2 rear-end crashes

DETROIT (AP) — Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents posted on its website Monday it will evaluate the automated driving system developed by Zoox. Both crashes

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