Turtle Disaster Avoided With Roadkill Rescue

Losing a spouse forces people into what is often one of the most vulnerable parts of their lives. The negative health consequences of widowhood can stretch years down the line, but in some cases, they don’t get a chance to. The phenomenon in which both halves of a couple die in short succession is so common that it even has a name: the widowhood effect. How at risk is any given person?

Just about anyone whose job it is to pay attention to financial news should have known that interest rates would go up over the course of the last year. A year ago, when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in three years to combat inflation, it said that the banking industry should expect “ongoing increases,” and by September, the Fed projected that it wouldn’t stop heightening rates until they topped 4.5%—from near zero in early 2022.

The astronomers operating the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on the island of Maui were not expecting to hit cosmic paydirt on Oct. 19, 2017—but they did. On what was otherwise an ordinary night of skygazing, they suddenly spotted what is easily the oddest comet ever detected. Its high speed—87 km per second (54 mi.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for episode 4 of The Mandalorian season 3. Following an opening sequence in which Grogu (formerly known as Baby Yoda) spars with a fellow Mandalorian foundling, the fourth episode of The Mandalorian‘s third season, “Chapter 20: The Foundling,” offered some additional insight into Grogu’s Jedi beginnings. While watching the Armorer (Emily Swallow) forge him a plate of beskar armor, Grogu once again flashed back to the day he escaped the clone troopers carrying out Order 66, the Jedi purge ordered by Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.

As we observe the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War, which claimed more than 4,600 American lives and countless Iraqis, we must make an honest assessment of the war. The war cost the U. S. trillions, upended Middle East stability, and ultimately benefited Iran’s aggressive and expansionist agenda by capturing much of the political and military institutions in Baghdad and Damascus.

DENVER — Two faculty members were shot at a Denver high school Wednesday morning after a gun was found during a search of a student, authorities said. The juvenile suspect remained at large and the gun as not immediately recovered following the shooting at East High School at about 10 a.m., the Denver Police Department said. One of the faculty members was critically injured and the second was in stable condition, Police Chief Ron Thomas said.