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The summary The annual Quadrantid meteor shower will peak early Friday. It will be the first meteor shower of 2025. The next spectacle will not be overshadowed by moonlight, as the crescent moon will set before the peak of the rain. Ring in the new year with the first meteor shower of 2025. The annual…
Norovirus, sometimes called “winter vomiting disease” or “two-bucket disease” (because it causes vomiting and diarrhea), is on the rise across the country, even as the seasonal flu is taking off and walking pneumonia continues. Wastewater data and reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown a significant increase in norovirus in recent…
Ten people were injured when a Lego display fell into a crowd during a New Year’s Eve event in Massachusetts, firefighters said. The incident occurred during an indoor balloon launch at In The Game, an arcade and restaurant, in Peabody, about 2 miles west of Salem. The family-friendly event aimed to celebrate the New Year…
The woman who died in a New York City subway fire earlier this month has been identified as Debrina Kawam, 57, of Toms River, New Jersey, police said Tuesday. Kawam was asleep on a stopped F train at the Stillwell Avenue station on December 22 in Brooklyn, just before 7:30 a.m. when a man set…
There is good news in the real estate market to close 2024: there is much more supply in the real estate market. The bad news: Much of that supply is obsolete and remains unsold for much longer than usual. Active listings in November were 12.1% higher than in November 2023 and reached the highest level…
SEOUL, South Korea – A South Korean court on Tuesday issued orders to detain impeachable President Yoon Suk Yeol and search his office and residence on charges of rebellion in connection with his brief declaration of martial law. It is the first time that an order has been issued to detain a sitting South Korean…
MOSCOW — It’s like turkey at Thanksgiving: On New Year’s in Russia, revelers traditionally eat plenty of Olivier salad. It was introduced in the then Russian Empire in 1860 by French chef Lucien Olivier, but today everyone has a slightly different recipe. It is so popular that the cost of its basic ingredients, which usually…
Puerto Rico on Tuesday suffered the latest in a series of widespread power outages that have left 1.3 million people, about 80% of the entire island, in the dark. More than a million power customers were without power across the U.S. as of 5:30 a.m. due to an infrastructure issue at a power plant on…
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MUAN, South Korea – Outside South Korea’s Muan International Airport, the smell of jet fuel is still in the air, days after a passenger plane landed and skidded off the runway, exploding in a fireball . Inside the departure terminal, dozens of yellow and beige tents have been set up for relatives to sleep while…