Earlier impacting Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas, Hurricane Matthew was a major cyclone on Oct. 8, 2016, advancing along the southeastern coast of the United States. In some areas along the Atlantic coast, the storm surge was measured at …
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By Ashton Lam On Saturday, September 24, 2016, President Barack Obama held a dedication ceremony for the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall. The approval in 2003 and the construction in 2013 …
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By Shawn Zhang For some reason, horseshoe crabs have recently been dying in massive numbers off Japan’s southern beaches near Kitakyushu. Typically, the shallow waters of Kitakyushu serve as a suitable breeding ground for the crab, Tachypleus tridentatus. Yet, this year they …
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By Vivien Song On Saturday, August 20, 2016, 93-year-old Ernie Andrus became the oldest person to complete the coast-to-coast trek across the United States. 3 years ago, on October 7, Andrus started at the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, and set …
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Written by Edwin Yu On the eve of the G20 summit of 2016, hosted by China from Sept. 4-5, the United States and China declared that they would ratify the Paris Agreement, leading the way for others. “Despite our differences on other …
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Written By Jeffrey Tan Many people in Florida who were looking forward to a peaceful Labor Day weekend had their hopes blown away. A Category 1 hurricane, Hermine, touched down in Florida’s Panhandle on Friday, September 3, bringing with it destruction and …
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Written by Daphne Yan At 9 a.m. Thursday, September 1, 2016, SpaceX Falcon 9 exploded on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral. This 229 foot tall rocket was being tested when it exploded. The rocket was destroyed by the explosion, and the Facebook …
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Written by Vivien Song A deadly typhoon battered northern Japan on August 31, leaving 11 dead, and several missing. 9 of the casualties were elderly inhabitants in their 80s and 90s, who resided in the Ran Ran nursing home in the Iwate …
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Written By Jeffrey Tan On August 28th, a Southwest Boeing 737 jet, flight 3472, was forced to initiate emergency landing procedures when one of its engines exploded. Tami Richards, a mother who was traveling with her three children and her husband to …
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Written by Patrick Xu: In Haifa, Israel, Jeff Steinhauer had made a breakthrough in the science of black holes; he has created extremely small sonic black holes that last for very short periods of time. He first cools the atoms to a …
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