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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during a news conference after a gunman opened fire at the Old National Bank building on Monday in Louisville, Kentucky. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was emotional as he shared that one of the victims killed in the Old National Bank shooting was a close friend of his. Read More...
Redeem now Felix Baumgartner's 2012 jump from the edge of space has made headlines again after GoPro released new high-definition footage of the freefall.
While impressive to most, many media reports have mischaracterized the jump as happening from space. Technically, he jumped from the stratosphere.
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson is critical of the misrepresentation, noting in a tweet that a corresponding fall to a regular classroom globe would be 1 millimeter above the surface — teeny tiny. Read More...
Roger Charlery, best known as Ranking Roger, singer of the widely influential U.K. group The Beat — known as The English Beat in the U.S. — died Tuesday afternoon, at 56. The singer was diagnosed with brain tumors and lung cancer last year. His death was announced on the website of The Beat, and confirmed to NPR by the group's manager, Tarquin Gotch.
Charlery was born Feb. 21, 1963 in Birmingham to parents of the so-called " Read More...