Lightning and Islanders searching for answers to rebound from 2-0 deficits in NHL playoffs Experience tells the Tampa Bay Lightning it’s time to go to work — not panic. The New York Islanders are also down 2-0 after playing well at times and losing their first two games of the NHL playoffs on the road. 04/24/2024 - 11:03 am | View Link
2024 NHL playoffs: Panthers' Sergei Bobrovsky makes insane save against Lightning Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky might have made the save of the year in Tuesday's 3-2 overtime win against the Tampa Bay Lightning. During the second period of Tuesday's contest, Lightning forward Anthony Cirelli shot the puck wide of the net before captain Steven Stamkos threw the puck back in front. 04/24/2024 - 2:51 am | View Link
Lightning Lightning is very, very hot—hotter than the surface of the sun. It can reach 28,000 degrees Celsius (50,000 degrees Fahrenheit). Lightning is more likely to strike objects that stick up off of the ground, including people. In the U.S., lightning kills an average of 58 people each year. That’s more deaths than are caused by tornadoes and ... 04/22/2024 - 10:14 pm | View Link
Lightning | Voltage, Causes, & Facts | Britannica lightning, the visible discharge of electricity that occurs when a region of a cloud acquires an excess electrical charge, either positive or negative, that is sufficient to break down the resistance of air. Is ball lightning real? Learn about the mysterious phenomenon of ball lightning. See all videos for this article. 04/22/2024 - 11:37 am | View Link
Flash Facts About Lightning • Lightning is a giant discharge of electricity accompanied by a brilliant flash of light and a loud crack of thunder. The spark can reach over five miles (eight kilometers) in length, raise the... 04/22/2024 - 10:33 am | View Link
What Causes Lightning and Thunder? Often lightning occurs between clouds or inside a cloud. But the lightning we usually care about most is the lightning that goes from clouds to ground—because that's us! As the storm moves over the ground, the strong negative charge in the cloud attracts positive charges in the ground. 04/22/2024 - 8:10 am | View Link
Real Time Lightning Map :: LightningMaps.org See lightning strikes in real time across the planet. Free access to maps of former thunderstorms. By Blitzortung.org and contributors. 04/22/2024 - 5:03 am | View Link
During a Supreme Court hearing on Idaho abortion law, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and Justice Samuel Alito clashed over fetal protections under federal law EMTALA. Prelogar argues women deserve necessary medical care, challenging Alito's focus on "unborn child" protections.
Twice impeached and four times indicted, former President Donald Trump issued a desperate plea for help to his Republican allies on Truth Social amid his hush-money case. Trump wrote at 2:00 AM, so he isn't getting much sleep. It shouldn't be called a hush-money case, though, since it's about Donald interfering in the 2016 election.
Republican Voters Against Trump made a powerful ad. Donald Trump was charged with 88 felonies and was found liable for sexual assault. He could not get a job in a retail store for minimum wage. If the former president is too big a liability to get a job at a local mall, he is too big a liability to lead the United States.
Trump is making history this week, as the first ex-president to have a criminal trial.
Two new high-quality polls suggest an electoral dagger could be coming for Donald Trump—if their findings persist. Both polls, from Marist College and NBC News, show third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. siphoning more support away from Trump than President Joe Biden.
The potential emerging trend was first spotted by The Washington Post's Aaron Blake.
In the NBC poll, Biden trailed Trump by 2 points in the head-to-head matchup, 44% to 46%.
This morning, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case brought by the state of Idaho, which wants the nation’s highest court to rule that its abortion ban preempts federal law when it comes to emergency abortion care.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, requires that hospitals receiving Medicare funding provide stabilizing care for all ER patients—including abortion care, even if it conflicts with a state’s own stricter abortion rules.
Enter Idaho.