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Astronomers have officially catalogued the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid, a milestone that highlights both how far planetary defense has come and how much of the sky remains unmapped. The European Space Agency, which announced the tally this week, estimates that nearly…
Lea Michele disclosed in her memoir that she once dated a second Glee co-star. The revelation landed in her 2014 autobiography ‘Brunette Ambition,’ released less than a year after the death of her boyfriend and fellow cast member Cory Monteith.…
Claudia Tacoronte’s sister is demanding answers after a third female student was murdered at their Mexican university. The University of Granada, 21, had been in south-central Mexico only since August when she was stabbed to death at a medicinal plants…
Kit Barrus, 28, says she torched a “love hex” left inside her home by a college friend who refused to accept she would never date him. The OnlyFans creator, who draws roughly 10,000 subscribers a month and has amassed some…
Sophie Sparks is speaking out after doctors repeatedly dismissed her daughter’s leukemia as routine daycare bugs. Sparks, 37, of Rainham, Essex, spent six weeks pleading for answers while her 17-month-old daughter Darcey cycled through soaring temperatures, relentless coughs and infections…
The transit workers union is demanding judges be removed from the bench after accused assailants walked free without bail. John Chiarello, president of TWU Local 100, is “mad as hell” over two cases where men who attacked on-duty employees were…
A fruit fly’s digitized brain checkmated a leading AI chess model in 11 moves, its creator revealed. Maxime Labonne, a machine-learning engineer, wired the newly mapped connectome of an adult male fruit fly to a chess engine and watched it…
NYC officials told Queens residents they must pay hundreds of dollars to remove a basketball-sized hornets’ nest from a city tree themselves. The Parks Department rejected pleas from Councilman Phil Wong’s office to handle the bald-faced hornet colony hanging roughly…
Kevin Costner has been quietly seeing a 39-year-old Arizona influencer for roughly a year, a source said. The Oscar-winning actor, 71, has spent time with McKenna Wesley, a Scottsdale-based “lifestyle influencer & content creator,” at multiple properties he owns across…
Yellowstone’s Geology Team has pulled a record haul of tourist debris from the park’s famous hydrothermal zones. As of early September, crews had collected more than 20,100 pieces of trash, 5,600 rocks and sticks, and 280 hats from around geysers…
Yash Patel is speaking out about the double eviction that ended his “Big Brother 28” run. The 24-year-old finance analyst, who was sent home during Thursday’s dramatic back-to-back elimination, said on Friday that he harbors competitive resentment toward Drew Campbell,…
NASA scientists are puzzling over a set of unusually broad, shallow pits photographed by the Curiosity rover during its climb up Mount Sharp. The formations, captured in overlapping images by the rover’s MAHLI and Mastcam instruments, resemble footprints in their…
A Florida rescue has doubled its reward to $10,000 after surveillance footage captured a gunman on an e-bike shooting a stray cat near a West Palm Beach flea market. Zoe, the lone known survivor of the rampage, is recovering at…
A coalition of prominent UFO whistleblowers has publicly asked President Trump to waive their lifetime government nondisclosure agreements so they can reveal classified information about alleged extraterrestrial programs to the American people. Dylan Borland, David Grusch and Matthew Brown say…
A Brazilian high school student is facing possible confinement after she allegedly stabbed her math teacher in a classroom attack captured on video. The 17-year-old, whose name has been withheld because she is a minor, was arrested Sept. 11 at…
Christa Pike’s legal team has formally requested that only female corrections staff be present if her September 30 execution proceeds. Pike, 50, has spent nearly three decades on Tennessee’s death row after she was convicted of the 1995 murder of…