Kotaro Sugimoto
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Report: Yahoo agrees to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash
(Photo: Tumblr)
The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion for the blogging site Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal’s All Things D.
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Tornado spotted near Wichita, Kan., residents told to take cover
(Photo: Shalyn Phillips / TVNWeather.com)
People in two states were taking shelter amid wailing warning sirens Sunday as tornadoes were confirmed to have touched down in Kansas and Oklahoma. Thunder clouds were also heaving hail — dime to softball sized — as well as rain across broad swaths of both states.
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Invasive ‘Frankenfish’ that can live out of water for days to be hunted in NYC’s Central Park
(Photo: NBC New York)
Environmental officials are planning to survey a Central Park lake this week to search for an invasive type of toothy predator fish that threatens to disrupt the ecosystem.
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BREAKING: FDA approves Plan B for girls 15 and older without prescription
(Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images file)
U.S. regulators on Tuesday approved the Plan B One-Step emergency contraception for sale to girls and women ages 15 and older without a prescription and on store shelves instead of behind pharmacy counters, Food and Drug Administration officials announced.
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Quake kills more than 150, injures about 5,500 in China
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BEIJING - A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 156 people and injuring about 5,500 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.
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American Airlines grounds all flights after reservation system goes offline
(Photo of packed LAX terminal via KNBC’s Angie Crouch)
American Airlines grounded all its flights Tuesday afternoon after experiencing nationwide outages in its reservation system.
All fights on the ground will be held at their gates until the computer glitch is fixed, the airline said. Planes in the air will be allowed to land.
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BREAKING: Boston bombs were inside backpacks when they exploded, officials tell NBC News -
American Airlines grounds all flights after reservation system goes offline
(Photo of packed LAX terminal via KNBC’s Angie Crouch)
American Airlines grounded all its flights Tuesday afternoon after experiencing nationwide outages in its reservation system.
All fights on the ground will be held at their gates until the computer glitch is fixed, the airline said. Planes in the air will be allowed to land.
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In the virtual cockpit: What it takes to fly a drone
(Photo: Michael Shoemaker / U.S. Air Force)
Drone pilots escape the physical demands and dangers of a traditional cockpit. There’s no g-force pinning them to their seats, no uncomfortable pressure suit to wear and no panic because the aircraft they are sitting in is spiraling out of control.
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Migrant family in California’s agricultural region ca. 1935 by Dorothea Lange (Library of Congress)
