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2024 Eclipse: What to expect, from the awe-inspiring to the “very strange” – CBS News Watch CBS News On Monday, April 8, a rare total eclipse of the sun will be viewable across a swath of 13 states. Correspondent David Pogue talks with amateur astronomer Ed Ting about what to expect during the minutes of
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The Biden administration is pushing China to change an industrial policy that poses a threat to U.S. jobs, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday after ending four days of talks with Chinese officials. She also said she and Chinese officials had “difficult conversations” about national security, including American concerns that Chinese companies are supporting Russia
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What is a total solar eclipse? The science explained What is a total solar eclipse? The science explained 03:27 A total solar eclipse takes shape today, April 8, when an overlap between the sun and the moon is expected to darken daylight skies over parts of North America and ask awestruck Earthlings to briefly reckon
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Moscow — Warm spring temperatures have unleashed torrents on parts of western Russia, where thawing ice and melting mountain snow are swelling some of Europe’s biggest rivers and inundating towns and cities along their paths. The southwest Russian city of Orenburg, near the Kazakh border, was bracing for its worst flooding in decades, while to
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A total solar eclipse crosses North America today, with parts of 15 U.S. states within the path of totality. Maps show where and when astronomy fans can see the big event as skies darken in the middle of the day on Monday, April 8. The total eclipse will first appear along Mexico’s Pacific Coast at around
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Eclipse-watchers have been waiting more than six years since the last time a total solar eclipse charted its way across the United States, in 2017. After the rare event arrives on April 8, be aware — the next chance won’t be coming around any time soon. Viewers in what’s called “the path of totality” will see
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The 2024 solar eclipse will be visible across North America today. As the moon’s position between the Earth and sun casts a shadow on North America, that shadow, or umbra, will travel along the surface from west to east at more than 1,500 miles per hour along the path of totality. That means the eclipse
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Authorities in one of Mexico’s largest cities said Friday they have found seven bodies with five of them decapitated and another completely dismembered — with a message on each corpse — in a car left in the middle of traffic on a main expressway. Prosecutors in the central state of Puebla said all of the
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On April 8, a rare total solar eclipse will create a “path of totality” over North America, throwing swaths of the United States, Canada and Mexico into darkness in the middle of the day. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, blocking our view of the sun as
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A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation late Sunday into the executive for alleged obstruction. In his decision, Justice Alexandre de Moraes noted that Musk on Saturday began waging a public “disinformation campaign” regarding the
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