Scott Neuman
Stories
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Health
Disney Will Begin Requiring Masks Again Indoors At Its Theme Parks In The U.S.
With cases of the coronavirus back on the rise in Florida and California, guests two years of age and older at Disney World and Disneyland will again be required to don masks starting on Friday.
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Saturn Will Soon Put On Its Best Show Of The Year. Here's Where And How To See It
Wipe the dust off your binoculars and extract the family telescope from the back of the closet: Saturn is about to put on its best and brightest show of the year — an act Jupiter will soon follow.
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Health
With All Eyes On Tokyo, The City Has Just Hit A New High In COVID-19 Cases
Tokyo officials recorded more than 2,800 new cases in the capital on Tuesday, surpassing the previous high from January.
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Sports
Paralympian Medalists Will Finally Earn As Much As Olympians At The Tokyo Games
The USOC decision put them at parity with U.S. Olympians, who receive $37,500 for a gold medal, $22,500 for silver and $15,000 for bronze.
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History
A New Analysis May Have Just Solved A Decades-Old Mystery Of The Space Race
The second Mercury mission was going according to plan until the Liberty Bell 7 capsule sank in the ocean. NASA exonerated astronaut Gus Grissom, and two researchers now say they know what happened.
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Environment
2 Australian States Say Their Sharks Will No Longer 'Attack.' They Will Only 'Bite'
Shark Week may never be the same: Two Australian states-- Queensland and New South Wales — have softened their tone when it comes to the language of reporting shark attacks.
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Latin America
Ariel Henry Is Set To Be Haiti's New Prime Minister. Here's What To Know About Him
Two weeks after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse sparked a power struggle, a 71-year-old neurosurgeon-turned-politician will be sworn-in Tuesday as prime minister.
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World
The U.S. Has Formally Accused China Of A Massive Cyberattack On Microsoft
The Biden administration, backed by European allies, is publicly calling out Beijing for an attack earlier this year on Microsoft's Exchange email server software that targeted computers worldwide.
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Business
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui Is Killed In Afghanistan
The 38-year-old journalist, who worked for the Reuters news agency, died in southern Afghanistan during a clash between Taliban militiamen and Afghan troops with whom he was embedded.
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Environment
Flood Deaths Are Rising In Germany And Officials Blame Climate Change
The worst flooding in decades to affect Germany and parts of Belgium has killed more than 100 people as search and rescue efforts for hundreds of missing continue, officials said.