9 years ago today, China became the third nation to land a rover on the moon with their Chang’e-3 orbiter and rover. The soft landing it achieved was the first on the moon since the Soviets in 1976. Landing in a molten crater called Sinus Ilium, it was to carry out some surveying and geology, […]
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With much of the world rallying around his country's unprecedented run, a member of the Moroccan diaspora says that "to me, we already won the World Cup."
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The manager of a Minnesota liquor store was surprised to come back from lunch yesterday to find his counterhelp walking around in her socks. That’s because security camera footage revealed she had just given her favorite shoes—a pair of purple retro Jordans, to a homeless man she saw strapping boxes to his feet. Brooklyn Center […]
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Wahl, the preeminent soccer reporter in the U.S., died early Saturday while covering the Argentina-Netherlands quarterfinal match in Doha. He collapsed in the press tribune during the game.
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A small army of community volunteers worked over a week to locate and rescue a lost dog on Vancouver Island. The mastiff-retriever named Luna chased an animal out of the yard of Highlands area resident Saryta Schaerer, before getting lost and falling down a steep slope onto a two foot-wide ledge. Rescuers and neighbors kept […]
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World Cup semifinals continue Wednesday. Defending champ France plays Morocco — the first African and majority-Arab nation to make it this far in the tournament. The winner faces Argentina on Sunday.
60 years ago today, the U.S. completed her first flyby of another planet when the Mariner 2 probe passed Venus. It took readings of the Venusian atmosphere and gathered the first planetary data of its kind to be enjoyed by scientists. It wasn’t the first craft to perform a flyby of Venus; the Soviets managed […]
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Argentina beat Croatia 3-0 to advance to the World Cup finals for a sixth time - and giving star forward Messi a chance to win his first title. Argentina will play either France or Morocco on Sunday.
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A woman who needed help fostering a blind dog named Beau ended up finding both it, and a forever home for him after the help she found fell in love with the dog over video calls. Samantha Hillstrom thought her own blind dog Finn could use the companionship of little Beau, a Pomeranian poodle mix […]
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Football isn’t coming home for England, but the Three Lions are adding a fourth, albeit a small one, for the journey home. The English National Football team is brining Dave the Cat home from Qatar with them. The cat began to appear in players’ social media feeds, as the stray had taken to eating with […]
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On December 10th, teammates and fans of Northwestern State sounded their applause when their new freshmen basketball player scored his first points for the team. It was an extra special applause for the point guard, since Hansel Emmanuel has only one arm. A minute later he added to his total with a thunderous dunk in […]
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"Why shouldn't we dream about winning the World Cup?" Morocco's coach Walid Regragui said after beating Portugal. He says his team is the "Rocky" of Qatar.
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667 years ago, the Moroccan traveler, writer, pilgrim, and jack of all social trades, Ibn Battuta, completed his monumental travelog, often shortened to “The Travels,“ detailing a span of time from the moment he left his home in Morocco and didn’t return to settle down for nigh on three decades. He traveled 79,000 miles of […]
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Sometimes you can find new interests in old places. For me, it was taking ballet classes alongside a group of around 20 Chinese ladies, all of them starting ballet as adults.
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An evolutionary “missing link” species was just discovered, and it was a very big and scary link in a very big and famous chain. The newfound species, Daspletosaurus wilsoni, is thought to be the direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurus Rex, and had a unique set of facial features like a set of ridges called “hornlets” above its eye socket. […]
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The most astonishing display of atmospheric variability came as giant ocean waves of clouds drifted over the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming last week. The incredible scene was captured by photographer Rachel Gordon, who shared them on the Wyoming Through The Lens Facebook group, and is a textbook example of “Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability.” KHI results from differences […]
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California just granted the first ever state license for Unicorn Husbandry, provided the young applicant can find one, and ensure it has appropriate exposure to sunlight, moonbeams, and rainbows. Department of Animal Care and Control added that its horn needed polishing every month with a soft cloth. “Dear LA County, I would like your approval […]
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Brazil lost to Croatia in Friday's quarterfinals. As Neymar was leaving the pitch in tears after his team's exit, the son Croatian striker Ivan Perisic hugged Neymar — trying to comfort him.
Now that Brittney Griner has been released from a Russian prison, will the WNBA reconsider how much it pays its players? (Story aired on All Things Considered on Dec. 9, 2022.)
10 years ago today, Maddison Square Garden hosted a benefit gig for the victims of Superstorm Sandy, featuring a star-studded lineup of The Rolling Stones, The Who, Michael Stipe, Chris Martin, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters and others. Paul McCartney, members of Nirvana and Dave Grohl also performed. In total the benefit raised $30 million for […]
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