After three recent mass bleaching events, the future of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in the balance. Now divers and tourists are being asked to take thousands of photos of the reef, allowing conservationists to understand which areas can most benefit from the its annual spawning event.
SpaceX marked another milestone on Sunday, launching its 25th flight to orbit this year, a next-generation SiriusXM radio satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch also marked the Falcon 9’s seventh launch and landing and took off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Using a large deployable antenna, the satellite will be able to broadcast radio programming directly to homes, businesses, cars, trucks and other vehicles.
Some 30,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine have been carefully packaged in special boxes equipped with thermal and location sensors.
Trump supporters gathered at the National Mall in Washington to protest the election results followed by a march to the Supreme Court, NBC’s Amanda Golden reports.
CNN’s Michael Smerconish argues that President Trump was always going to lose the Texas lawsuit challenging President-elect Biden’s win, but the Supreme Court did not go far enough in its explanation why.
The United Nations says it’s increasingly alarmed about the plight of Eritrean civilians caught up in the conflict in Ethiopia. The UN refugee agency says it has received disturbing reports of displaced people being killed or kidnapped and forcibly returned to Eritrea, which borders Ethiopia’s battle-scarred Tigray region. The first international aid convoy has arrived in Tigray since fighting broke out there more than a month ago.
The Donald Trump administration will see three more federal executions take place before Trump leaves office, after two recent executions which many found to be a shocking precedent for a lame duck president. Reporter Wesley Lowery joins Tiffany Cross to discuss.
Maryam Tsegaye is the first Canadian to win the $500,000 Cdn Breakthrough Junior Challenge, an international prize that includes a scholarship and new science lab for her school. The Grade 12 student from Fort McMurray, Alta., spent two weeks crafting her winning video on quantum tunnelling
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Death row inmate Brandon Bernard has been executed in Indiana after last-minute clemency pleas were rejected by the US Supreme Court. Bernard, 40, was convicted of murder in 1999 when he was a teenager, and is the youngest offender to be executed by the federal government in nearly 70 years. Bernard told the family of the couple he killed he was sorry, before dying by lethal injection on Thursday. Four more executions are planned before the end of Donald Trump’s presidency.