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Carolina Myer is a writer, editor, and digital media strategist who's been working in the news industry since she was 21. She writes about sports, education, and tech—and she's a huge geek.

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Lance Bass teases Justin Timberlake with 'It's Gonna Be May' meme, an NSYNC fan favorite

Lance Bass is joining in on the “It’s Gonna Be May” Day festivities. The NSYNC alum posted a TikTok poking fun Tuesday at his former bandmate Justin Timberlake, whose mispronunciation of the word “me” in the 2000 hit “It’s Gonna Be Me” birthed a meme that’s now 12 years old. In the video, a pink-haired […]

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‘Horrific Acts of Violence’: Demonstrators Spar at UCLA Before Police Move In

By Michael Vasquez Etienne Laurent, AFP, Getty ImagesA counterprotester throws a fence at pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California Los Angeles early Wednesday. The clashes went on for hours. Violence erupted on the campus early Wednesday as counterprotesters launched objects into an encampment. The fighting continued for hours before the police intervened. Source link

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Mandisa's father gives eulogy: Singer's death showed 'no signs' of self-harm

Two weeks after Grammy-winning gospel singer Mandisa was found dead, her family is beginning to open up about the circumstances of her death. “I believe firmly that the detective believes and knows that she did not [harm herself],” her father, John Hundley, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. The singer, whose full name was Mandisa

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On global stage, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Taiwanese winner says the word China hates

TAIPEI, Taiwan —  To hundreds of thousands of fans around the world who watched this season’s finale of the hit reality show “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” the final plea for victory from one of the contestants wasn’t especially memorable. “It would mean a lot to be the first East Asian queen to win the crown and to

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NASA prepares for intense sun storms on Mars during 'solar maximum'

Two NASA spacecraft will pay special attention to increasing levels of radiation that bombard Mars during this year’s approaching solar maximum, to better prepare astronauts for future missions to the Red Planet. Every 11 years or so, the sun experiences a peak in activity known as solar maximum, due to its strong and constantly shifting

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James Webb Space Telescope forecasts clouds of melted rock on this blisteringly hot exoplanet

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has performed a weather report for a distant planet. The powerful space telescope forecasts extreme wind speeds, blisteringly hot temperatures and blankets of rock clouds for the world, named Wasp-43b. As such, the extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” demonstrates just how strange alien planets outside the solar system can be.

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Near-Earth asteroid was once part of the moon, scientists say. And now they’ve found the crater it left behind

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk of the moon, but exactly how it ended up zooming through the solar system has remained a mystery. Now, researchers say they’ve made a

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Review: Ralph Fiennes, an older Macbeth, builds sympathy for a killer with soulful weariness

“Macbeth” is littered with casualties — and not only on the fictional battlefield. The tragedy has taken down a battalion of the finest directors and actors, who have fallen victim to the play’s real curse: its deceptive dramatic difficulty. The problem is counterintuitive. Why does a play as spellbindingly theatrical as “Macbeth” excite an audience’s

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A Switzerland-size hole opened in Antarctica's sea ice in 2016-17. Now we know why

Each austral winter, Antarctica undergoes a radical change. Sea ice surrounding the continent expands outward, effectively doubling Antarctica’s size. But during the winters of 2016 and 2017, a rare hole called a polynya opened in the middle of the sea ice — one about the size of Switzerland. And scientists have just now figured out how

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