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Overnight News Digest March 13th 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-03-13

x Idaho teacher ordered to remove inclusive signs from classroom. Being a decent human being is frowned upon now in Idaho? www.wkyc.com/article/news... — Noelle (@finallynoelle.dems.social) 2025-03-12T20:31:52.024Z

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, JeremyBloom, and doomandgloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man (RIP), wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos since 2007, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments.

Wall Street tumbles 10% below its record for first 'correction' since 2023 on Trump's trade war

Wall Street’s sell-off hit a new low Thursday after President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war dragged the S&P 500 more than 10% below its record, which was set just last month. A 10% drop is a big enough deal that professional investors have a name for it — a “correction” — and the S&P 500’s 1.4% slide on Thursday sent the index to its first since 2023. The losses came after Trump upped the stakes in his trade war by threatening huge taxes on European wines and alcohol. Not even a double-shot of good news on the U.S. economy could stop the bleeding. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 537 points, or 1.3% Thursday, and the Nasdaq composite fell 2%.

x Wow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon. — News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T23:00:26.154Z

Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to return home next week after 9 months in space

Two NASA astronauts who have been in space for more than nine months awaiting a return trip to Earth are finally set to come home. They just have to wait a little longer. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who have been aboard the International Space Station since June of last year — were due to undock with the SpaceX Crew-9 on March 16 after the arrival of the Crew-10 mission carrying the NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov to the ISS. But SpaceX scrubbed the launch of Crew-10 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday night due to a hydraulic issue with "a ground support clamp arm" on the Falcon 9 rocket. NASA said the next launch attempt for Crew-10 would be on Friday night — pushing back the timetable for Williams and Wilmore's return to Earth.

I could not find this video anywhere else x There is a young man in jail today for protesting at his college. No charges. No criminal conduct. In dictatorships, they call this “a disappearance”.



I want to tell you why this case should matter to you, even if you strongly disagree with what he said or did. pic.twitter.com/mCp1M3hV9k — Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 11, 2025 NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time. SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth’s poles. Tagging along were four suitcase-size satellites to study the sun. Spherex popped off the rocket's upper stage first, drifting into the blackness of space with a blue Earth in the background. The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments.

Scientists make shocking find in snow samples from remote mountain peaks — here's what they discovered

A groundbreaking study in the high Alps has revealed a shocking source of pollution: nanoplastics from vehicle tires. The findings from a global effort to track the spread of these tiny plastic particles show that even remote mountain ranges, once thought to be untouched by pollution, are now contaminated with harmful particles. In a world-first effort to measure nanoplastic pollution, a team of mountaineers and scientists collected snow samples from some of the highest peaks in the Alps.

Lunar Lander Starts Drilling Into the Moon, Sparks Flying

While Intuitive Machines' Athena lander quickly met its demise after awkwardly stumbling and ending up on its side, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft, which touched down just a few days earlier, is leaping into action. After sending back a stunning image of the Sun rising in the distant horizon, the lander wasted no time and kicked off its Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER) experiment. The goal is to drill into the lunar surface within the Mare Crisium, a massive basin in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side, in hopes of better understanding the geology of the Earth's natural satellite.

Scientists Built a Tiny Battery Out of Nuclear Waste That You'll Never Have to Recharge

Around 10 percent of the world’s energy comes from nuclear fission, and while this source doesn’t produce harmful greenhouse gasses, it does have the unfortunate side effect of producing radioactive waste. This nuclear waste is usually stored in spent fuel pools, but some companies and scientists have looked for ways to harness the residual energy in nuclear waste for further energy production. A new study by scientists at Ohio State University (OSU) created a nuclear waste battery by using scintillator crystals—a high-density material that emits light by absorbing gamma radiation, which makes them well-suited for medical imaging and radiation detection. In this context, these crystals are paired with solar cells that convert emitted light into usable energy. This isn’t grid-scale capability, or even recharge-your-smartphone scale. Instead, these batteries create just hundreds of nanowatts to even a microwatt of power. The results of the study were published in the journal Optical Materials: X.

x ❗️In 🇷🇺Moscow—the CHP-16 (Mosenergo) power station has unexpectedly caught fire. — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T09:33:30.959Z

Scientists issue critical warning after linking common appliance to major health risk: 'The problem is far worse than we thought'

For the first time, researchers are now able to link premature deaths to gas stove pollution. While previous studies have identified the dangers of gas stoves, this groundbreaking review has tied thousands of early deaths to the popular stoves. A new study estimates that 40,000 deaths in Europe are a result of gas stove pollution, according to Euronews. Researchers at the University of Jaume I's School of Health Sciences in Spain analyzed dozens of health studies examining how nitrogen dioxide causes asthma and premature deaths. They then scaled up nitrogen dioxide measurements in and outside homes across multiple European countries to establish a clear image of the pollution from gas cookers. While research from the past 50 years has identified the health risks of nitrogen dioxide pollution, the new findings paint a much darker reality than expected.

Crump administration empties Guantánamo of migrants, flies all back to US

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