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BWC: Man charges at LAPD cops swinging 7-foot cluster of wires before fatal OIS

Officers shot the man with less lethal foam projectiles multiple times; they fired shots as the man continued to run at them with the wire “whip”

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Jeffery Carroll named interim DC police chief

Caroll is a career DCMPD officer who most recently served as the department’s executive assistant chief of specialized operations

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‘No compassion’: PD fires N.Y. officer suffering kidney failure 6 months before pension qualification

Despite needing to undergo dialysis for nine hours every day, Derek Williams has been cleared for light-duty work, but Mt. Vernon PD instead sent him a letter of termination

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BWC: NYPD cop returns fire after being shot in face by shotgun-wielding suspect

Officers were guarding evidence at a homicide scene when a man emerged from an apartment and fired shots; he later emerged again, wounding the officer in the face

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Recruitment up, crime down in Md. community: ‘Didn’t happen by chance’

Violent crime is down 19% in Prince George’s County, and property crime has decreased 15% compared to 2024; the county also welcomed its largest recruit class in a decade

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Wash. flood damage profound as heavy rains cause mudslides, power outages

First responders have conducted at least 629 rescues and 572 assisted evacuations; as many as 100,000 people have been under evacuation orders

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Feds arrest man planning New Orleans attack aiming to ‘recreate Waco’

Micah James Legnonis suspected to be involved in the same extremist anti-capitalist and anti-government group tied to four suspects who planned an attack on L.A. businesses

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Dec 17, 2026 – Did One Of Three Interstellar Objects Have Melted, Thermonuclear Device?

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What’s powering these mysterious, bright blue cosmic flashes? Astronomers find a clue

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ultraviolet light that gradually fade away, leaving behind faint X-ray and radio emissions. With slightly more than a dozen discovered so far, astronomers have debated whether they are produced by an unusual type of […]

Possible ‘superkilonova’ exploded not once but twice

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of explosion—the kilonova—occurs when a pair of dense dead stars, called neutron stars, smash together, forging even heavier elements such as gold and […]

PUNCH mission spacecraft producing unprecedented images of Sun

After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, imaging the sun in context while tracking comets and enormous space weather events as they traveled through the inner solar system. SwRI’s Dr. Craig DeForest discussed the achievements of NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) […]

The next frontier in space is closer than you think: Welcome to the world of very low Earth orbit satellites

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.

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Webb observes pulsar-orbiting planet whose composition defies explanation

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it formed.

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A universal law could explain how large trades change stock prices

Financial markets are often seen as chaotic and unpredictable. Every day, traders around the world buy shares and sell assets in a whirlwind of activity. It looks like a system of total randomness—but is it really?

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‘Agent of chaos’: BWC shows Mich. officers shoot man who carjacked bystander, fired at ATF agents

The suspect, linked to 11 shots fired incidents, was critically injured after raising a gun at officers during a foot pursuit captured on bodycam

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