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Cincinnati Reds’ Wade Miley confounds Cleveland Indians for 2021’s 4th no-hitter
Wade Miley pitched baseball’s second no-hitter in three days — and fourth already this season — leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 win Friday night over the Cleveland Indians, who were no-hit for the second time in a month. Miley (4-2) relied on breaking pitches and his experience of 11-plus major league seasons to …
NASA Mars helicopter heard humming through planet’s thin air
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — First came the amazing pictures, then the video. Now NASA is sharing sounds of its little helicopter humming through the thin Martian air. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California released this first-ever audio Friday, just before Ingenuity made its fifth test flight, a short one-way trip to a new airfield. …
Kim Kardashian shows off figure, platinum blonde hair while working out in revealing swimsuit
Kim Kardashian is strutting her stuff. The 40-year-old reality star is never shy about showing a little skin online or about trying out new hairstyles, and one of her latest Instagram posts is no exception. On Thursday, Kardashian posted a steamy photo of herself working out while wearing a barely-there black swimsuit. The getup was …
California reports first ever yearly population decline
California’s population fell by more than 182,000 people in 2020, marking the first year-over-year loss ever recorded for the nation’s most populous state.State officials announced Friday that California’s population dipped 0.46% to just under 39.5 million people from January 2020 to January 2021.The news comes one week after the U.S. Census Bureau announced a paltry …
Google goes nuclear against Roku by adding YouTube TV to the main YouTube app
A week after their broken-down negotiations spilled into the public, Google and Roku still haven’t been able to reach a deal to renew YouTube TV’s presence on the huge streaming platform. But Google has come up with something of a workaround in the meantime: it’s going to let people access YouTube TV directly from the …
Sharks Use Earth’s Magnetic Fields to Guide Them Like a Map – “It Really Is Mind Blowing”
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on May 6 have some of the first solid evidence that sharks also rely on magnetic fields for their long-distance forays across the …
Pfizer and BioNTech seek full FDA approval for their Covid-19 vaccine
Pfizer’s mRNA two-shot vaccine is currently being used in the US under emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA. The companies say 170 million doses of the vaccine have been distributed across the US to date. “We are proud of the tremendous progress we’ve made since December in delivering vaccines to millions of Americans, in …
Germany’s move to EVs to affect thousands of workers, new study says
The underbody of an ID.3. electric vehicle being worked on at a Volkswagen facility in Dresden, Germany, on January 29, 2021. Matthias Rietschel | picture alliance | Getty Images The shift to electric vehicles could affect thousands of workers in Germany over the coming years, the Munich-based Ifo Institute said Thursday. The Ifo’s study, which …
Family of Chris Cornell settles with doctor over his death
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of Chris Cornell and a doctor who they alleged over-prescribed him drugs before he died have agreed to a settle a lawsuit. Court documents filed by attorneys for the rock singer’s widow, Vicky Cornell, and their children, Toni and Christopher Nicholas Cornell, said a confidential settlement had been reached. …
Angels’ split with Albert Pujols was awkward, uncomfortable and necessary – The Athletic
When the Yankees released Álex Rodríguez in August 2016, they worked closely with him on his farewell, announcing the news on a Sunday, saying he would play his final game five days later and adding he would remain with the club as a special adviser and instructor. Ichiro’s retirement in March 2019 also was orchestrated. …
