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Breaking: Superintendent McDuffy tells staff she’s retiring after four years with district
Superintendent Kris McDuffy Edmonds School District Superintendent Dr. Kris McDuffy said she’s retiring at the end of the 2019-20 school year. In an email to district staff Saturday morning, McDuffy said she had already notified the school board of her intent to retire as of June 30, 2020. “This was a very tough decision but …
Android Auto Gets First Major Upgrade in Five Years
Google this week announced that it is rolling out a major update to Android Auto that deemphasizes the phone version of the app. “If your car has Android Auto support, you’ll start to see the new design over the next few weeks,” Google’s Rod Lopez explains. “These updates will not be reflected in Android Auto …
Climate change: UK’s 10 warmest years all occurred since 2002
Image copyright Getty Images The top 10 warmest years on record in the UK have all occurred since 2002, a new analysis from the Met Office says. Its State of the UK Climate report shows that 2014 remains the warmest year in a temperature sequence now dating back to 1884. Despite last summer’s blistering heat, …
Technology reunites dog missing for 8 years with Tennessee owner
Technology helped reunite a dog missing for eight years with her owner in Tennessee on Sunday, according to the local sheriff’s office. The Knox County Sheriff’s Office announced the good news on its Facebook page Sunday night, writing that the Siberian Husky named Oreo was reunited with her owner, identified as Melissa Dove, because she got a microchip for her …
After nearly 60 years off the tracks, the world’s largest steam locomotive roars
(CNN) — With plumes of smoke billowing into the sky, the world’s largest steam locomotive left Wisconsin on Friday morning, bound for an afternoon stop in West Chicago. Back on the rails for the first time in six decades, the only operational Big Boy steam engine in the world is on a journey across the …
Trump’s attorney general announces return of federal capital punishment after 20 years – live | US news
12.35pm EDT 12:35 Here’s where the day stands so far. The Justice Department announced it would resume capital punishment after a 16-year lapse of the policy. They have scheduled five executions of death-row inmates, with the first execution set for December 9. Nancy Pelosi has told House Democrats that they have to do their “own …
Climate change: Current heating ‘unparalleled’ in 2,000 years
Image copyright Getty Images The speed and extent of current global heating exceeds any similar event in the past 2,000 years, researchers say. They show that famous historic events like the “Little Ice Age” don’t compare with the scale of warming seen over the last century. The research suggests that the current warming rate is …
World War II Warship Found After 75 Years Off The Coast Of Maine – CBS Boston
(CNN) – The USS Eagle PE-56 was supporting Navy training exercises off the coast of Maine when an explosion tore it in half in April 1945. Only 13 people survived, and 49 officers and crew members went down with the ship. For 75 years, no one knew exactly where the submarine hunter — and its …
This Navy warship went down in World War II with 49 crew members aboard. Divers finally found it after 75 years
Only 13 people survived, and 49 officers and crew members went down with the ship. For 75 years, no one knew exactly where the submarine hunter — and its crew — rested at the bottom of the ocean. But in June 2018, a team of eight wreck divers working with the Smithsonian Channel finally located …
China GDP growth slumps to lowest in 27 years as the trade war hits
The country’s gross domestic product grew at 6.2% in the quarter ended June, the slowest quarterly growth rate since 1992 and down from 6.4% in the previous quarter, according to government figures released on Monday. And the Chinese economy will continue to face “downward pressure” in the second half of this year, the country’s National …
