KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you look up in the Kansas and Missouri skies on Tuesday, Sept. 17, you may be able to catch a glimpse at not only a supermoon — but also a partial lunar eclipse.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm warning for a system that is approaching the Carolina coast on Monday while Tropical Depression Gordon has lost steam in the Atlantic.
LOS ANGELES -- Madigan Traversi’s world changed in the fall of 2017, but the forces responsible for her transformation had been brewing for a long time.
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After decades of trying to stop Earth from heating up, scientists are exploring how to reverse climate change and maybe even cool the planet back down.
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subaltern \suhb-OL-tuhrn; SUHB-uhl-tuhrn\ (adjective) - 1 : Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior. 2 : (Chiefly British) Ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain. 3 : (Logic) Asserting only a ...Read more
The National Hurricane Center has issued tropical storm warnings for the Carolinas, from Edisto Beach, South Carolina, to Ocracoke Inlet. That includes Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Wilmington and Morehead City.
The National Hurricane Center continues to track Tropical Storm Gordon and another system that is expected to develop off of the southeastern U.S. coast on Sunday.
As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. update, the center of Gordon is...Read more
Any night now, the astrophysicists tell us, a new star will appear in the night sky over Philly and the rest of the world — about as bright as the North Star — the result of a cosmic explosion in a distant ...Read more
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mollify \MOL-uh-fy\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To pacify; to soothe or calm in temper or disposition. 2 : To reduce in intensity; to temper. 3 : To soften; to reduce the rigidity of.
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