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Overnight News Digest May 8th 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-05-08

x Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’ — The Onion (@theonion.com) 2025-05-08T18:54:40.485Z

Scientists stunned as trail cameras capture astonishing creature moving through harsh Himalayan environment: 'First documentation'

A group of researchers studying a nature reserve in the Tibetan Himalayas set up a trail camera in hopes of spotting elusive species. What they found was as exciting as anything they could have imagined. The Himalayas contain some of the highest peaks and some of the most unforgiving environments on the planet. But life is remarkably resilient, and it finds a way to thrive even in the harshest climates. That's why you'll find an array of amazing creatures inhabiting this iconic mountain range. The native clouded leopard, however, is unlikely to be among those creatures; it is believed there are less than 6,000 adults left on the planet.

x BREAKING: The Australian Trump, who founded a party with the platform "Australia needs Trump policies and Australians want them," won no seats in the election despite spending millions. pic.twitter.com/fONgHn8l9y — PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) May 5, 2025

Panama president says he will not renegotiate security deal with US, despite protests

Panama President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday that he will not renegotiate an agreement with the United States to give U.S. troops access to Panamanian facilities, despite protests charging that he compromised the country’s sovereignty. On Tuesday, thousands of Panamanians marched in the capital in the largest protest yet against an agreement signed during last month’s visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The U.S. embassy followed with a statement Wednesday saying that the agreement did not allow for establishing military bases in Panama. A U.S. military presence in Panama is sensitive, since people still remember the U.S. invasion in 1989 and U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested that the U.S. take back control of the Panama Canal.

Report exposes $28 trillion in damage tied to five powerful companies: 'The veil of plausible deniability doesn't exist anymore'

Heat-trapping pollution from dirty fuel companies caused an estimated $28 trillion in global economic damages from extreme heat alone between 1991 and 2020, and scientists say there's no longer room for denial. In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers at Dartmouth College used peer-reviewed methods to link pollution from 111 major fossil fuel companies to rising global temperatures and climate-related damages over a period of three decades. As CBS News detailed, the study found that about a third of the total $28 trillion in damages could be traced to just five companies: Saudi Aramco ($2.05 trillion); Gazprom ($2 trillion); Chevron ($1.98 trillion); ExxonMobil ($1.91 trillion); and BP ($1.45 trillion).

x so proud of my amazing colleagues @propublica.org ! 🥹 www.youtube.com/shorts/sUAlB... — Sharon Lerner (@fastlerner.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T14:01:09.814Z

Scientists flabbergasted after observing major change at Earth's North and South Poles: 'More than the effect of ice ages'

A new scientific study revealed that Earth's North and South Poles could shift by more than 89 feet by the year 2100. Melting ice due to our planet's overheating is moving these geographic poles, possibly affecting spacecraft and satellite navigation. As Live Science reported, rising temperatures are melting glaciers and sheets of ice, causing water to be redistributed worldwide. This movement is shifting Earth's axis of rotation and relocating its poles.

x 🇷🇺✈️🚫 The collapse at Russian airports continues: passengers wait dozens of hours for flights! — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T09:01:30.639Z

Old Soviet Venus lander's fall to Earth will be no ordinary space junk crash. Here's why

This will be no ordinary space junk fall. The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit. Its homecoming may not spark the sorts of artificial meteor showers we're used to seeing from falling rocket bodies and other pieces of debris, however, because Kosmos 482 was built different: It's a Venus lander. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth atmosphere intact, and impact intact," Dutch satellite tracker Marco Langbroek wrote in a blog post recently. "It likely will be a hard impact: I doubt the parachute deployment system will still work after 53 years and with dead batteries," Langbroek added. "There are many uncertain factors in whether the lander will survive reentry, though, including that this will be a long shallow reentry trajectory, and the age of the object."

New report shows NYC helicopter breaking apart in midair before crash that killed 6

Federal officials on Wednesday released images of a doomed New York City sightseeing helicopter as it broke apart in midair last month, killing six people. The series of still photographs taken from surveillance camera video shows the fuselage, containing the engine and rotors, separating from the helicopter's tail. The rotor blades and the transmission then detach from the cabin that’s carrying the passengers and the pilot. The images were included in the preliminary report about the flight released by the National Transportation Safety Board. “Several witnesses described hearing several loud ‘bangs’ emanating from the helicopter before it broke up and descended into the river,” the report says.

Archaeologists Were Excavating the Site of Two Ancient Forts—And Found a THIRD Ancient Fort

The military significance of the Athar region of North Sinai may have pre-dated Ptolemaic-era and Roman-era fortresses already uncovered at the Tel Abu Seifi archaeological site. We know this thanks to the discovery of what is likely a third—and older—defensive structure for Egypt’s “fortress of the east.” According to a translated statement from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the Egyptian Archaeological Mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities uncovered not only fresh clues about the way of life at the site during the Ptolemaic and Roman occupation, but also the remains of a third military fortification. During the excavation, D. Hisham Hussein, head of the mission and director of the General Administration of Sinai Antiquities, said the presence of a moat led archaeologists to discover four pillars of a fort. Those pillars are now being dated, but the team believes the new find is older than the two forts already known to have existed on the site, one dated to the Ptolemaic era from 332 to 30 B.C. and the other from Roman rule during 30 B.C. to 395 A.D.

Massive pension fund could pull investments after oil exec's 'appalling' statements: 'I'm not convinced about continuing'

A South Yorkshire pension fund has decided to move toward divesting from fossil fuel companies BP and Shell, local paper The Star reported recently. The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority, which manages funds on behalf of 1.1 million members and 3,100 employers, is responsible for a total of £64 billion in assets. While only approximately 3.3% of its investment has historically gone into the two oil giants, its divestment will mean taking millions out of the oil and gas economy. For its board members, the move marks an important way to put their money, quite literally, where their politics are. "I just thought statements by BP were absolutely appalling and I just wanted to distance myself from those statements," board member Andrew Sangar told The Star.

State confirms residents' worst fears after testing drinking water across community: 'I definitely would not recommend drinking it'

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