In Atlanta, Mikayla Johnson, 12, was making snow angels and snow figures.
“My first thought was, ‘Wow!’” said Mikayla, who was outdoors with her father, Nate. “We haven’t had snow since I was, like, 4 — good snow, at least. So I was really happy.”
TikTok is challenging a possible ban or forced sale to new owners in the United States, but has for several years been waging other fights in at least 20 countries.
Somehow Be Like Albania is not the battlecry I expected to hear.
Texas schools canceled classes for more than 1 million students in anticipation of [?] icy and potentially dangerous conditions that could last into Friday. (Closures also kept students home in Kansas City and Arkansas’ capital, Little Rock, while Virginia’s capital, Richmond, remained under a weather-related boil advisory.)Boston native Gina Eaton, now living in Dallas, said “Even if there is ice, I’m very comfortable driving in it. It’s just other people that scare me.”
Now…
[Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum] showed off a 1607 map with the Gulf of Mexico being identified as such and North America labeled as Mexican America.
“Donald, think about it. You could get rid of all these states that always vote Democrat,” [Elizabeth May, leader of Canada's Green Party] said. “You know what else? We’ll take Bernie Sanders off your hands.”
Wasn't there anything in the rules about adults?
About a week into the new year, violence in Chicago ticked up slightly, and Mayor Brandon Johnson and Police Department leaders already face headwinds in their efforts to keep the city’s annual homicide total under 500 with the historically violent summer months still to come.
First, a new robotic spacecraft would land near the Perseverance rover, which would then hand over about 30 of its rock samples to launch into orbit around Mars. Yet another spacecraft, from the European Space Agency, would retrieve those samples, take them back to Earth and drop them off within a small disk-shaped vehicle that would land in a Utah desert.
It's a bargain at $8 billion.
And no doubt Trump will make Mars pay for it.
It’s his latest suggestion to redraw the map of the Western Hemisphere. Trump has repeatedly referred to Canada as the “51st State,” demanded that Denmark consider ceding Greenland, and called for Panama to return the Panama Canal.
He probably can, if he insists, call it the Gulf of America. But nobody else has to follow suit.
Imagine the schoolbooks and the maps.
Still, it's not the first time.
In 2012, a member of the Mississippi Legislature proposed a bill to rename portions of the gulf that touch that state’s beaches “Gulf of America,” a move the bill author later referred to as a “joke.”
Who's laughing now?
He said Meta is getting rid of fact-checkers and, starting in the U.S., replacing them with a so-called Community Notes system similar to that on Elon Musk’s X platform in which users flag posts they think need more context.
Making stuff up is now "mainstream discourse", the Zuck says.
OK, maybe you've already figured that out. But if last year's experience with joy wasn't enough to do it, here's more.
They first had to carve out a pool in the Songhua River, thawing the 10-centimeter (4-inch) thick ice that froze overnight. Then they stripped down and, one by one, plunged into the bone-chilling waters of the pool about 10 meters (33 feet) long.
Some said their limbs were already numb when the air temperature fell to minus 13 degrees Celsius (8 degrees Fahrenheit).
See what I mean?
Anyway, why dive into an icy river when all you have to do is win Duke's Mayo Bowl?
Jan. 3 (UPI) -- An Indian stuntman earned a Guinness World Record by stopping 57 electric fans in one minute using his tongue.…
We may need to hire a sports editor soon.
