April 2024 tied for 4th-warmest on record in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - April 2024 was tied for the 4th warmest April on record in Cleveland! The average temperature at Cleveland Hopkins last month was 54.5 degrees. That’s 4.1 degrees above normal ... 05/1/2024 - 11:11 am | View Link
April temp breaks heat records in many parts of India: IMD data Record-breaking heatwave in eastern and peninsular India in April linked to climate crisis, affecting voters during elections; severe temperatures continue. 04/30/2024 - 8:00 am | View Link
With record-setting heat, Philadelphia hits first 90-degree day in April since 2009 Philadelphia had a high temperature of 90 degrees, marking the first time the area experienced a 90-degree or higher temperature this year and tying the record for the day, last set in 1974. 04/29/2024 - 2:56 pm | View Link
Roundup: Bangladesh court orders all schools closure amid heatwave DHAKA, April 29 (Xinhua) -- A High Court Division bench in Bangladesh on Monday ordered the closure of primary and secondary schools until Thursday amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed ... 04/29/2024 - 4:21 am | View Link
Worst IPL? The mind-boggling dominance of bat over ball in 2024 season A total of 523 runs were scored and 42 sixes were hit in Kolkata as the growing disparity between bat and ball was highlighted once again on Friday. PBKS scripted the highest-ever successful chase in ... 04/26/2024 - 3:22 pm | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.