Saturday, August 8, 2026 5:53AMThe cause of death has been released for Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke. Clarke was found dead inside a home near Los Angeles on May 11.LOS ANGELES — Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke died in May from the effects of heroin and cocaine, authorities said Friday.The Los Angeles County Department of … Read more
Paleontologists have described a new genus of small, bird-like dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico approximately 73 million years ago. Life reconstruction of Dinevenator robustus. Image credit: Sergey Krasovskiy. The newly described genus, Dinevenator, belongs to a family of bird-like predatory dinosaurs called Troodontidae. The genus is monospecific, containing only one valid … Read more
Racing water. Phantom serpents. Rippling patterns of light and dark. Solar eclipse watchers have for centuries vividly described an eerie phenomenon known as shadow bands that appears just before and after totality — the period when the moon completely blocks the sun’s light and the sky goes dark. Long dark lines, separated by white spaces, … Read more
When thousands of unarmed students marched toward the Indian Parliament building last month in a rare challenge to the government, they were met by a wall of riot police officers determined to stop them.Officials had blocked internet in the area, initially slowing the emergence of details of the crackdown. But videos taken by protesters and … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a vote early Saturday morning, cementing President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney’s command of a Justice Department the Republican president has sought to bend to his will. The Republican-led Senate voted 50-49 to make Blanche the second confirmed attorney general since Trump returned … Read more
The Trump administration plans to provide $1bn in security assistance to the government of Colombia’s new rightwing president, the US state department announced, soon after Abelardo De La Espriella was sworn in and used his inaugural speech to pledge a vigorous fight against drug trafficking, as well as austerity measures to restore confidence in the … Read more
Aug. 7, 2026Updated Aug. 8, 2026, 12:36 a.m. ETBuc-ee’s is suing a small Ohio store named Beaver’s Mini Mart over trademark concerns.Buc-ee’s CEO Arch Aplin told a TV station that and a local mayor that the mini-mart sought a federal trademark, but records show it actually was a state trade name filing.The owner of Beaver’s … Read more
This post, first published on Aug. 6, was republished on Aug. 8 with further details of the iPhone release schedule from keynote announcement to iPhone on-sale.Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, plus the first-ever folding iPhone, are set to go on sale in September. They’ll be unveiled at the September keynote — … Read more
Seriously, folks. Since the end of June, Sox fans have shared box seats in the front row of baseball’s alternate universe. Go ask Alex (Speier). Up is down and down is up. Caleb Durbin is Wade Boggs and Ceddanne Rafaela is Reggie Smith. The team that couldn’t win is the team that can’t lose. With … Read more
Picture a golfer lining up a putt. Now stretch the green until the hole is 3,630 kilometres away and ask the golfer to sink it. That is the image NASA reaches for to explain how accurately Voyager 2 arrived at Neptune. The spacecraft had flown for about twelve years and covered 7,128,603,456 kilometres, and it … Read more