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New Jimi Hendrix Album With Unreleased Songs Coming in March

Unreleased songs recorded by Jimi Hendrix between 1968 and 1970 will be released next year.   Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings announced Wednesday that they will release Hendrix’s “Both Sides of the Sky” on March 9, 2018. The 13-track album …


Super-size Black Hole Is Farther From Us Than Any Other

Astronomers have discovered a super-size black hole that harks back to almost the dawn of creation. It’s farther away from Earth than any other black hole yet found. A team led by the Carnegie Observatories’ Eduardo Banados reported in the journal …


Gene Therapy Offers Hope of a Cure for Blood Disease

Gene therapy has freed 10 men from nearly all symptoms of hemophilia for a year so far, in a study that fuels hopes that a one-time treatment can give long-lasting help and perhaps even cure the blood disease. Hemophilia almost …


Fentanyl Fueling US Opioid Crisis: Experts

Fueling the increase in opioid addiction and overdoses in the U.S. is a little known synthetic opioid called fentanyl. In this segment of the series “State of Emergency – America’s Opioid Crisis,” we take a look at what the introduction …


Russia Banned From 2018 Winter Olympics Over Doping Scandal

Russia has been banned from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. Following a seventeen-month investigation, the International Olympic Committee or IOC ruled that Moscow had deliberately manipulated the global anti-doping program through a state-sponsored conspiracy. Russian …


Hard History: Mississippi Museums Explore Slavery, Klan Era

In the 1950s and ’60s, segregationist whites waved Confederate flags and slapped defiant bumper stickers on cars declaring Mississippi “the most lied about state in the Union.” Those were ways of defiantly pushing back against African-Americans who dared challenge racial …


YouTube Says Over 10,000 Workers Will Help Curb Shady Videos

YouTube says it’s hiring more people to help curb videos that violate its policies. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says “some bad actors are exploiting” the Google-owned service to “mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm.” She says Google will have more …


Obama, Chicken Nugget Guy Among Most Retweeted in 2017

What do a former U.S. president, LeBron James and a guy who really, really likes chicken nuggets have in common? They all made the biggest splash on Twitter this year. Twitter on Tuesday released its top trending people and topics …


Clinton Returns to New Hampshire for Book Signing

Hillary Clinton is returning to New Hampshire for the first time since just before the 2016 presidential election. The former Democratic presidential candidate is signing copies of her new book, “What Happened” on Tuesday in Concord. Clinton won New Hampshire’s …


Breeding Cleaner Cattle Could Slow Climate Change

As greenhouse gases go, methane is one of the worst. Pound for pound, it is much more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. And a good portion of it is emitted by domesticated cattle. Scientists have been working for …


Lawmaker: Support for Brazil’s Pension Reform More Organized

The government of Brazil’s President Michel Temer is far from assembling the coalition needed to pass a landmark pension reform, but potential supporters of the measure are now more organized, a key legislator said on Monday. “We’re still enormously far …


Olympics Committee Faces Tricky Decision Over Possible Russia Ban

Under intense pressure from all sides, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will decide Tuesday whether to ban Russia from next year’s Winter Olympics over alleged institutionalized doping. Anti-doping agencies and many athletes want Russia to be completely excluded from Pyeongchang, …


Two Illegal Drugs May Soon Be Legal Medicine in US

Doctors across the U..S could soon be prescribing formerly illegal drugs as therapy for two hard-to-treat diseases – childhood epilepsy and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. A growing body of scientific evidence is leading the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to take …


NASA Nails Test on Voyager Spacecraft, 13 Billion Miles Away

NASA has nailed an engine test on a spacecraft 13 billion miles away. Last week, ground controllers sent commands to fire backup thrusters on Voyager 1, our most distant spacecraft. The thrusters had been idle for 37 years, since Voyager …


Philadelphia Struggles with Fighting Massive Drug Epidemic

Anthony walks the streets of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood looking for two competing things: His next heroin fix – and help in what he says is his struggle to end addiction. He traces the habit to one fateful day. “I shattered …


Luxury Car Makers Shift Gears from Sporty Sedans to SUVs

Luxury brands are switching gears at this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show. Manufacturers once known for iconic sports cars are facing an identity crisis — trying to compete with Tesla’s electric autos while still serving Americans’ love of SUVs (sport …