Lucy Perkins
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The spacecraft has detected the nearest thing to Earth yet discovered — a planet that's a bit bigger and squarely inside the "habitable zone" for life. -
President Francois Hollande said he would present an emergency package of measures that would give farmers tax breaks and financial aid to save them from bankruptcy, the Telegraph reports. -
The British cosmologist's new $100 million search for alien life will explore 10 times more sky than previous projects.
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Seagulls have reportedly menaced people and animals in Cornwall, England. The public outcry has gone all the way up to 10 Downing Street. -
They will travel on foot from Lodwar to Lake Bogoria, 520 miles over 22 days, and pass an Olympic-style torch from walker to walker, writes The Guardian. -
A judge in South Carolina set July 11, 2016, for the start of Roof's trial on charges of killing nine people at Emanuel AME Church. -
The city dumped cleared snow in unused parking lots this winter, creating piles it called "snow farms." This one was once 75 feet high. It finally became a puddle Tuesday. -
It took Scott Jurek 46 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes to make the 2,189-mile hike from Springer Mountain, Ga., to the top of Maine's Mount Katahdin. -
A 28-year-old man was dead and a 25-year-old woman was seriously injured when they were found by police in a car on the side of the road in Scotland.
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NPR's Joel Rose reports that the goal of the plan is to reduce the number of people in the city's jail on Rikers Island.
