For this year Fortnite Summer event, Epic is putting together a collection of limited time modes, including old favorites and new additions, that will run throughout the season. Among the return modes for the Summer Splash event will be Sneaky Silencers – now called Fog of War – Close Encounters, …
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Airlines defend movements to full capacity flights
The airline industry defended American Airlines on Tuesday over its new policy to fill the planes to capacity after criticism from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. Redfield said there was “substantial disappointment with American Airlines” about the …
Read More »Cuomo, other governors from three states add 8 states to the mandatory quarantine list, with a total of 16
People traveling to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from eight additional states will have to remain in quarantine for 14 days upon entry, bringing the total number of states on the governors’ “travel advisory” list to 16, officials said Tuesday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, announced in a press …
Read More »Fauci warns ‘we need to monitor’ the new strain of swine flu in China
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned Tuesday that the United States needs to keep its focus on a new strain of swine flu emerging from China that has the potential to become a pandemic, even when The United States is still recovering …
Read More »Bad astronomy | New study shows asteroid killed dinosaurs, not volcanoes
We know that a monstrous asteroid impact killed the (non-avian) dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. Sixty-six million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide space rock crashed into Earth just off the coast of present-day Yucatan, destroying a 150-kilometer-wide crater and unleashing a chain of catastrophic weather events that destroyed …
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