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Alaska’s Fat Bear Week, the highly anticipated annual competition sponsored by Katmai National Park and Preserve, was delayed after one of the competitors was attacked and killed.

With Election Day approaching on Tuesday, Nov. 5, just over three weeks away, both  vice President Harris’s  and former President Trump’s  campaigns are busy reaching out to voters and sharing their key messages. While many of us may not be able to vote yet,  it’s helpful to start paying attention to the updates from each campaign. Here are the major updates from each candidate’s campaign.

A large and devastating cyclone caused widespread destruction across many Eastern Coast States-Hurricane Helene.

As of this writing, the United States is a matter of hours away from the election of the forty-seventh president of the United States. In many states, in-person voting has already begun, and it is clear that the 2024 Presidential Race is drawing to a close. This is where things stand just prior to the biggest decision of the last four years.

This past weekend, a video went viral on TikTok, showing what appeared to be an easy way to get "free" money through a Chase Bank ATM glitch. The so-called "hack" involved writing yourself a check, depositing it, and immediately withdrawing a large sum of money. The video attracted many people, promising a quick and easy way to get rich. However, this so-called hack was nothing more than check fraud.

Great news for dinosaur enthusiasts!  Paleontologists have recently announced the discovery of a new species of  titanosaur  in Spain.  The fossils were found at the Lo Hueco fossil site, located near  Cuenca, a mountainous town  in central Spain.  This discovery happened during an excavation for a high-speed train line between Madrid and Valencia. 

he thought of a creature with teeth coating its skin and eyeballs is a concept that’ll create some bone-chilling (tooth-chilling?) mental images. Some kind of fantastical goblin, perhaps? A mutant porcupine?  There’s no need to test the limits of your imagination and mental well-being in this case: whale sharks fit this description perfectly.

NASA’s plan was to send astronauts up for a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Boeing Starliner in June 2024. That is what they did. What they didn’t do was bring them home. The spacecraft that brought them up to the ISS was deemed ready to fly them up safely. It wasn’t capable of flying them back, however,  according to NASA’s safety program. 

For nearly 30 years, China sent tens of thousands of children overseas for adoption, largely due to its one-child policy, which led many families to abandon their babies. Now, China has announced that it will no longer allow most foreign adoptions, citing global trends. As China’s economy has grown, the government has allocated more resources to support orphans, leading to a slowdown in international adoptions.

President Emmanuel Macron has recently declared Michel Barnier France's new prime minister. With roughly 52% of polls agreeing with Macron's decision, this sudden shift marks a new era in French politics with the welcoming of an experienced politician.