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‘For the woman who could stop all of this but won’t’: Scarlett Johansson puts the knife into Ivanka Trump with wicked SNL perfume commercial spoof for ‘Complicit’ Never-before-seen Michael Brown footage sheds new light on case and suggests he did NOT rob the store before being shot dead by Ferguson police but was involved in a drug deal with the clerks How incendiary new Michael Brown film threatens to reignite fury around his death – as police ADMIT they knew about unseen footage but DIDN’T release it because it was ‘irrelevant’ North East braces for up to 18-inches of snow as freezing Nor-easter looks set to hit New York City and bring blizzard white-out conditions Inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee issues dire warning on its 28th anniversary and says fake news and government surveillance threatens to destroy it EXCLUSIVE: Heartwarming moment Good Samaritan steps in and … (more)

Paris Jackson joins Gisele, Hadids on IMG models roster

Page Six exclusively reported in January that Jackson signed with Rod Stewart’s manager and Jackson has previously shared her interest in modeling. The announcement came via a tweet from the company’s Twitter account, with an attached picture from the star’s upcoming cover spread with Carine Roitfeld’s CR Fashion Book.

Federal government buying new radar system to better detect severe weather

The government announced Tuesday that it has signed an $83-million contract for 20 state-of-the-art weather radars that are to be built across the country over seven years starting this fall. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said the radars, along with a recently acquired supercomputer, will give people more time to protect themselves and their property from severe weather.”

Expect thunderstorms Saturday afternoon

Aleksandr Filippov, a SUNY student from Los Angeles studying nanotechnology in Albany, rollerblades down Elmwood Street on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 in Guilderland, N.Y. Aleksandr Filippov, a SUNY student from Los Angeles studying nanotechnology in Albany, rollerblades down Elmwood Street on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 in Guilderland, N.Y. ALBANY – Enjoy the blast of unseasonably warm weather while it lasts. Saturday the mercury is expected to rise to 65 degrees, as cloudy skies will yield to rain and thunderstorms as a cold front moves in.

FEATURE-Cartoons and calendars help Bolivian farmers dampen fire risk

A mix of high-tech satellite data and brightly colored cartoons is helping subsistence farmers around Riberalta in Bolivia’s northern Amazon pick the best time to burn off their land and reduce the risk of uncontrolled blazes, as persistent drought makes wildfires a hot issue in Latin America. “Fire is a real problem with these communities – it’s something they’re very concerned about,” said Veronica Ibarnegaray, program director at Bolivia’s Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza , explaining that slash-and-burn farming for crops and cattle is largely to blame.

White Night Melbourne 2017: Live coverage of the city’s all-night party

Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website – Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. We have a band of roving reporters out and about to bring you the latest as White Night Melbourne unfolds for 2017.

Backup Lightning Imaging Sensor to Finally Get Its Day in Space

The Lightning Imaging Sensor is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday on the 10th SpaceX cargo resupply mission for the agency. If all goes according to plan, this imaging tool will be mounted on the exterior of the orbiting lab so it can capture real-time observations of lightning strikes on Earth, NASA officials said in a statement.

Landsat 8 Images Show Rains Reviving Central Coast Reservoirs

Images captured by a satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base four years ago show the dramatic difference in water levels for two Central Coast reservoirs due to recent rains. Lake Nacimiento is now at 86 percent full, while Lake San Antonio – virtually dry before – sits at 32 percent full, as of Friday, according to Monterey County Water Resources Agency.

Sinking land concerns California

Land in California’s Central Valley is sinking so much from over-pumping of groundwater during the drought that officials said Thursday they will press for new laws to limit drilling. The sinking threatens to curtail as much as one-fifth of water deliveries through the vital California Aqueduct to San Joaquin Valley farms and millions of Southern California residents, state water managers said.

The Latest: Tornado damages New Orleans NASA facility

An official at NASA’s Michoud facility in New Orleans says it suffered some damage during Tuesday’s tornado but the deep-space equipment being built there does not appear to be damaged. Steve Doering was there when the wind started picking up and says it sounded like a freight train coming down.

UPDATE 3-UK Stocks-Factors to watch on Jan 31

* SSE: Britain’s second-biggest energy supplier SSE continued losing customers in the third quarter of its financial year, while still and wet weather meant output from its renewable energy plants fell 20 percent year on year, it said on Tuesday. * BRITVIC: British soft drinks firm Britvic said first-quarter revenue rose 4.3 percent on strong sales of its drinks in Britain and international markets.

El Nino May Make a Comeback as Australia Sees Pacific Warming

Less than a year after the world said goodbye to one of the strongest El Ninos on record, forecasters are predicting the weather pattern may make a comeback. Climate models indicate the central Pacific Ocean will probably warm over coming months, suggesting neutral conditions or El Nino are the most likely scenarios for the southern hemisphere winter-spring period, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said on its website.

Top Science Stories This Week

Majority of the meteorites that are found on Earth today are produced by a giant asteroid collision in outer space taking place some 466 million years ago. But scientists have long wanted to know what type of meteorites fall on Earth before that collision.

Big telcos may take wi-fi away from rural families: provider

A small internet provider helping to end the data drought in regional southern Queensland says it could soon be outbid by larger internet companies on digital spectrum access, thanks to a review by the Australian Communications and Media Authority . Toowoomba-based company Red WiFi has been using elevated positions on silos, water tanks and sheds to install dishes that stream wireless internet across rural communities, offering unlimited data to hundreds of families.

Three straight scorchers are not a trend

In this July 21, 2016, photo, the sun sets beyond visitors to Liberty Memorial as the temperature hovers around 100 degrees in Kansas City, Mo. For the third straight year, Earth set a record for the hottest year, NOAA and NASA announced.

Another strong winter storm expected to hit Bay Area overnight

As the Bay Area endures its wettest January in 15 years, yet another winter storm with predicted significant rainfalls and high winds with the potential to take down trees and power lines is expected to hit the region Saturday night into Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Steady rain could begin as early 8 p.m., with the heaviest downfalls expected between 2 and 4 a.m. as the storm comes in from the north, said Brian Garcia, a forecaster in the service’s Monterey office, on Saturday.

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FORT MYERS, Fla. Rescheduled due to Hurricane Matthew, the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association’s Manufacturing Day will bring South Fort Myers High School students to Trilogy Laboratories, 10060 Amberwood Road, Suite 1 in Fort Myers at 9 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 20. The high schoolers look forward to trading in their textbooks for a full immersion in the field of manufacturing as they tour Trilogy Laboratories and shadow founder and skincare product inventor Dr. Kristen Flaharty.

Freezing Weather Threatens Power Supplies in Southeastern Europe

Bulgaria, where temperatures fell to as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius , declined emergency requests for power from Greece and Turkey amid heavy snowfall, Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said Tuesday in the capital Sofia. The country was itself turned down by Romania two days ago and Greece said it would stop electricity exports to Bulgaria from noon on Wednesday.

NASA sees storms affecting the western US

VIDEO: This animation of visible and infrared imagery from NOAA’s GOES-West satellite shows a series of moisture-laden storms affecting California from Jan. 6-9, 2017. view more Extreme rain events have been affecting California and snow has blanketed the Pacific Northwest.

UCI Introduces iRain Smartphone App

Climate researchers and weather forecasters get their rain data from a network of precipitation-sensing satellites that orbit Earth. iRain, a new mobile phone app developed by engineers at the University of California, Irvine puts the same precision rainfall information into the pockets of the public.