RecordBreaking

by John Hugh DeMastri   Facebook parent Meta signed on to a $725 million settlement to potentially close out a class-action lawsuit over the sharing of user data with third parties, such as the Trump-aligned campaign consulting firm…

Though former President Donald Trump has steered clear of Georgia during Walker's runoff campaign, Trump has been a prominent backer of the candidate.Their decades-long relationship traces back to when Walker was a pro football player;…

On a cold early-December morning, I took my place at the back of a long line outside of an unassuming building behind an elementary school. It was a gymnasium and community center known in my small Georgia town as the headquarters of a…

When humans finally tread the ochre-hued plains of Mars for the first time, one might glance up at the heavy, dust-laden skies and tender a wordless note of thanks to cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who helped pave the way. Polyakov died…

Amid record-breaking heat, a member of the Queen’s Guard is given water outside Buckingham Palace. Photo: John Sibley/Reuters via The Guardian Hottest day on record Record-breaking heat was reported in the UK today (July 18, 2022).…

Far out in the Milky Way, roughly 22,000 light years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic force that beats anything physicists have ever seen. At a whopping 1.6 billion Tesla, a pulsar called Swift J0243.6+6124…

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Ohio State exceeded $1 billion in research spending in 2021. Credit: Courtesy of the Wexner Medical Center Ohio State funded $1.2 billion in research in 2021, a record-breaking amount for the university.  Grace Wang, executive vice…

Nadal won his semifinal in impressive fashion after beating Matteo Berrettini of Italy in four sets -- 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-3 -- and will now face Daniil Medvedev in Sunday's final.Nadal currently shares the men's singles grand slam record (20)…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — For the third day in a row, Ohio has broken its record for number of COVID-19 cases. According to the Ohio Department of Health, 15,989 new cases were reported Thursday, the largest in the state since…