Why the chance that an asteroid might hit Earth in 2032 keeps changing
An asteroid between 130 and 300 feet wide has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — but the precise odds have been a moving target since the space rock was first detected nearly two months ago. NASA’s latest estimate for the asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, is that it has just a 0.28% probability of striking Earth — about a 1 in 360 chance. But the agency had put the probability at 1.5% on Wednesday, and the day before that, NASA estimated the chances of a collision to be a record high of 3.1%, or 1 in 32.
How the world changed in a month
President Donald Trump spent the first month of his second term on an extraordinary mission — dismantling the global system the United States spent the past 80 years building. It was always theoretically possible that the West could lose its resonance as World War II and the Cold War became increasingly distant memories. But no one expected to see a US president wielding the ax. When Trump won last year’s election, there was a sense among some western diplomats in Washington that their governments knew how to handle a president who in his first term often made foreign policy by tweet. But the shock that drove European leaders to an emergency meeting in Paris this week suggests they underestimated just how destructive Trump’s second term would be.
Draft US-Ukraine rare earth minerals deal not one President Zelensky would accept, source says
A draft deal between the United States and Ukraine over rare earth minerals and other natural resources is “not the one President Zelensky would accept,” according to a source familiar with the negotiations. “It is a strange offer to try and take from a country that is a victim of war, more than it cost to pay for its defence,” the source told CNN. The US is trying to gain access to Ukraine’s critical minerals and other resources as part of wider negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. In return, Ukraine has been pushing for security guarantees, with Kyiv not only keen to see the return of lost territory but protection against a possible future Russian invasion.
Knife attack leaves one dead in France in ‘terrorist act,’ officials say
One person has died and several are wounded following a knife attack at a market in eastern France, in what French authorities have described as an act of terror. “Horror has just gripped our city. A man attacked passers-by at the covered canal market with a knife, several municipal police officers who intervened to neutralize him were also injured,” Mulhouse town mayor Michèle Lutz said in a statement Saturday on Facebook. The suspect has been arrested and is currently in police custody, according to a press release from the office of France’s national anti-terror prosecutor.
‘We are in danger’: Migrants deported from US were locked in hotel and held at remote camp in Panama, lawyers say
For days, they say they were locked inside a hotel in Panama, surrounded by tight security with limited contact with the outside world. Nearly 300 migrants from Asia, all deported by the US, were held there by Panamanian authorities who agreed to take them in and eventually repatriate them. It’s part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, which it has pressured Latin American nations to help with.
German police arrest Syrian refugee after stabbing at Berlin Holocaust memorial
Authorities in Berlin have detained a teenage Syrian refugee after a man was stabbed near the city’s Holocaust Memorial late Friday – as divisive rhetoric swells over Germany’s immigration policy, ahead of a consequential national election. The 19-year-old suspect was arrested after a 30-year-old Spanish tourist was seriously injured at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin’s public prosecutor told CNN on Saturday. According to prosecutors, he “is said to have been planning to kill Jews for several weeks.” On Friday, police launched an investigation into the attack.
Russia is ‘recycling’ wounded troops, sending some to the frontline on crutches
The Russian military is sending wounded troops on crutches back to the frontlines to fight, and redeploying soldiers with significant injuries to combat roles, as it struggles with growing manpower issues, according to videos and testimony obtained by CNN. Frontline footage posted by Ukrainian drone operators and Russian troops show men who have clearly suffered leg injuries, some still bandaged, using crutches in combat areas, in several instances targeted by Ukrainian drones as they use the walking aids to try to flee. “The Russians are recycling the wounded back into the fight,” one Western official said, referring to videos of “troops on crutches being pushed back into the line.”
'Mickey 17', 'Running Man', more 'Wicked' and other exciting book-to-screen adaptations
The next few years will be big for book-to-screen adaptations. We’re starting to see the silver screen aftermath of BookTok’s biggest hits after “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover debuted as a Blake Lively film this summer. Next, Hoover’s “Verity” will be a film starring Anne Hathaway. And there are plenty of other BookTok-popular books that have been greenlit for movies or television, including Rebecca Yarros’ dragon-filled romantasy “Fourth Wing,” “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Emily Henry’s “The People We Meet on Vacation.” "The Housemaid" by Frieda McFadden will star Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney. Even the new “Hunger Games” prequel “Sunrise on the Reaping” has a feature film in the works, despite the book not being out until March.
Voting for best picture at the Oscars is surprisingly complicated. How a winner is picked.
We’ve got many, many questions about what all goes into the Academy Awards. Not least of which, how exactly does best picture get decided? For the last 15 years, the 10,000-plus members of the Academy have cast their votes with what is known as the “preferential ballot.” The ranked voting system aims to level the playing field among best picture nominees, and tends to benefit movies that are crowd-pleasing rather than sharply polarizing. So how does it work? And what could it mean for this year’s especially unpredictable best picture race? We break down everything we know about the
Independent Spirit Awards 2025: See Demi Moore, Emma Stone hit the carpet
Hollywood celebrated indie filmmaking at Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards at the Santa Monica Pier in California. Scroll through for the best photos from the red (OK, blue) carpet, starting with Demi Moore and her dog Pilaf.
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