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Lead On Thursday at a Singapore shopping mall premiere for Wicked: For Good, a 26-year-old Australian, Johnson Wen, rushed the red carpet and physically grabbed singer-actress Ariana Grande. Local authorities detained Wen and charged him with being a public nuisance; reports say the offence carries an approximate $1,500 fine if he is convicted. Grande did … Read more
Lead On November 14, 2025, New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani publicly urged people to avoid Starbucks while baristas staged an open-ended strike over alleged Unfair Labor Practices. The call came as workers walked out during the chain’s Red Cup Day, an annual promotion that typically drives high holiday traffic. Starbucks said the company was … Read more
Lead Researchers report they extracted fragmented RNA from Yuka, a juvenile woolly mammoth recovered from a Siberian permafrost cliff, revealing molecular snapshots of tissues around the time of death. The study, published in Cell, used samples collected in 2012 and analyzed RNA from ten mammoth remains, with three specimens—including Yuka—yielding useful data. The RNA fragments … Read more
Lead: A female chimpanzee briefly left the International Chimpanzee Complex at the Indianapolis Zoo on the morning of Nov. 14, 2024, and was returned to the exhibit after being sedated. The zoo locked down and guided visitors to secure areas while staff contained the animal. Officials report no guests or staff were injured, and the … Read more
Lead: Researchers report recovering RNA from a 39,000‑year‑old woolly mammoth, a find published in Cell on Friday that challenges long‑held assumptions about RNA stability. The molecule set came from Yuka, a partially mummified mammoth discovered in 2010 in melting Siberian permafrost, and shows molecular signs of physiological stress at the time of death. Of 10 … Read more
On November 14, 2025, Iranian forces seized the Marshall Islands‑flagged oil tanker Talara after the vessel passed the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. defense officials and maritime monitors reported. The ship was about 20 nautical miles east of Khor Fakkan in the United Arab Emirates when it lost contact with its manager, Columbia Shipmanagement. U.S. officials … Read more
Lead: Researchers at the University of California San Diego report a sustained rise in internet searches for lorazepam in the weeks after the release of the third season of the HBO series The White Lotus on 16 February 2025. The study finds searches stayed elevated for 12 weeks, amounting to almost twice the expected volume … Read more
Lead The sprawling state racketeering prosecution tied to Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 result in Georgia will move forward under a new prosecutor after Fulton County’s elected district attorney, Fani Willis, was disqualified. The case file was formally assigned in September to Peter Skandalakis, director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, who … Read more
Lead: On Nov. 13–14, 2025, three major space stories converged: Blue Origin’s New Glenn successfully launched NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes to Mars and recovered its first stage; China expedited the return of the Shenzhou-20 crew from the Tiangong space station after a week-long on-orbit anomaly; and new images show comet C/2025 K1 (the “other” ATLAS) … Read more
Lead On Friday, Nov. 13, 2025, U.S. equity markets opened mixed after a volatile week that culminated in Thursday’s sharp sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 312 points (0.7%), while the Nasdaq Composite rebounded 0.2%, ending a three-day slide; the S&P 500 traded roughly flat. The moves followed Wednesday’s brief push above 48,000 for … Read more
On the third anniversary of the Nov. 13, 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students, an Ada County judge ruled that convicted killer Bryan Kohberger must pay for the urns for two of the victims as part of his restitution obligations. Kohberger, who pleaded guilty over the summer, is serving four consecutive life sentences … Read more
On December 1, 2017, Taylor Swift left a brief, handwritten message for Liam Payne ahead of London’s Jingle Bell Ball; that note — signed, sealed and bearing a Nashville reverse — is now listed for auction and is expected to sell for several thousand dollars. The note praises Payne’s solo single “Bedroom Floor,” offers encouragement … Read more
In recent days several Republican senators whose phone data were sought during the probe that produced special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation have publicly stepped back from a last-minute provision in the government funding bill that would allow senators to sue the federal government for not notifying them when their records were accessed. The … Read more
Lead On Thursday, November 14, 2025, Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy-lift rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and delivered two NASA science probes on a deep-space trajectory while the 320-foot (98 m) first-stage booster performed a precision propulsive touchdown on an offshore recovery platform 375 miles (600 km) east of Florida. Liftoff occurred … Read more
Lead: With release just weeks away, Nintendo released a new seven-minute overview trailer for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond that offers the clearest look yet at the game’s scope. The footage highlights the alien world Viewros, showcases Samus’s newest abilities alongside familiar tools, and introduces several Galactic Trooper NPCs players will encounter and rescue. The trailer … Read more
