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Melting polar ice is slowing Earth’s rotation speed, extending the length of each day by a few milliseconds per century.

The part about the old man bumping his head and not waking up in the morning could describe a dangerous head injury.

If there’s one thing CrowdStrike really wants to make clear about the tech outage affecting thousands of businesses, it’s that it was not caused by a cyberattack. “Today was not a security or cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected,” CEO George Kurtz said in his latest statement Friday on the outages, which have affected more than half a dozen global industries. “We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption.” Austin, Texas-...

Hunter Biden’s legal team filed a motion on Thursday to dismiss cases brought by special counsel David Weiss against the president’s son, citing a recent opinion authored by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Biden’s lawyers pointed to Judge Aileen Cannon’s recent dismissal of the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, where she declared special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment unconstitutional, citing a concurring opinion from Thomas in the Supreme Court’s ruling...

The highly infectious polio virus has been found in sewage samples in Gaza, putting thousands of Palestinians at risk of contracting a disease that can cause paralysis. Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) has been identified at six locations in sewage samples collected on June 23 from Khan Younis and Deir al Balah, a World Health Organization spokesperson said in a statement Friday. “It is important to note the virus has been isolated from the environment only at this time; no associated...

Republicans in Milwaukee put on a first-rate and unified show this week, and the question for Donald Trump was whether he could cap it off with a speech that would broaden his political appeal. He met the moment for about 30 minutes before devolving into a rambling stump speech that probably had many Americans heading for bed. The former President had the audience rapt as he recounted his near-assassination on Saturday in Butler, Pa. This was a subdued, even somber Donald Trump...

There’s nothing worse in baseball than watching a towering home run ball hook foul. And that sums up Donald Trump’s biggest speech of his life. It was the former president’s chance to crush the Democrats’ chances. Instead, he has given them hope.  Trump’s acceptance started out very strong. He was doing exactly what he needed to do: show he is not the big, bad wolf the Democrats make him out to be. The retelling of his near-death experience was powerful and lent...

It began with as intensely personal an account as any presidential nominee has ever delivered — a step-by-step retelling of his near-death experience. And as soon as that narrative ended, it became… a Trump rally speech, with the prepared text delivered in a monotone worthy of a bus driver’s announcement, interrupted by lengthy ad lib riffs, jokes, shout-outs and a litany of “never seen anything like it” and “like never before.” Even after what for anyone would be a life-changing experience...