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Teen Loses License in 49 Mins

Teen Gets License, Loses It 49 Minutes Later

Congrats?

By Arden Dier

A police officer uses a radar gun in Panama City Beach, Fla.   (AP Photo/The Panama City News Herald, Heather Leiphart)

In what's sure to be some kind of record, a teen in Germany managed to lose his driver's license a mere 49 minutes after getting it.

Submarine Aircraft Carrier

The U.S. Navy Could Have Had a Submarine Aircraft Carrier

AN-1 would have carried eight fighter jets, had virtually unlimited range.

By Kyle Mizokami
HI SUTTON

During the 1950s, the advent of the atomic age forced the U.S. Navy to look at a number of alternate basing schemes for naval aviation. One such scheme was AN-1, an enormous nuclear-powered submarine that could launch eight fighter jets in just under eight minutes.

AI can Finish Sentences

Finally, a Machine That Can Finish Your Sentence

Completing someone else’s thought is not an easy trick for A.I. But new systems are starting to crack the code of natural language.

CreditCreditNicolas Ortega

By Cade Metz

In August, researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a lab based in Seattle, unveiled an English test for computers. It examined whether machines could complete sentences like this one:

'The Christmas Chronicles'

Kurt Russell is a Santa like no other in 'The Christmas Chronicles'

By GARY GOLDSTEIN

Kurt Russell is not your typical Santa but looms delightfully large in "The Christmas Chronicles." (Michael Gibson / Netflix)

Kurt Russell was born to play Santa Claus. Maybe not your father’s Santa Claus but one who’s cooler and more subversive. It’s a bit of casting karma that may not have been all that evident before his appearance in the clever and captivating new fantasy-adventure “The Christmas Chronicles.” Russell, he of the shaggy mane and those twinkly, crinkly eyes, digs into the classic role with a sleighful of energy, humor and gusto, deftly making the character his own with guidance from Matt Lieberman’s inventive, myth-bending script. His performance is a gas.

2018 Oxford Word of the Year

The 2018 Oxford Word of the Year isn't nice, it's toxic

Associated Press 

LONDON (AP) — What single word best captures the tone of the past year? Oxford Dictionaries says it's "toxic."

Best U.S. Airlines

These Are the Best U.S. Airlines to Fly, According to Customer Satisfaction

Photo Illustration, Source Images via Getty Images

STACEY LEASCA 

In 2017, the airline industry suffered a major customer service crisis. From the incident involving Dr. David Dao being dragged off a flight, to families being asked to disembark and threatened, and even the deaths of a few beloved pets, many airlines lost the trust of customers around the globe.

Greenhouse Gas Levels

Greenhouse Gas Levels Haven't Been This Bad in 3M Years

Researcher says the gravity has 'not sunk in'

By Arden Dier

The coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nation's top carbon-dioxide emitters, is seen in Juliette, Ga., on June 3, 2017.   (AP Photo/Branden Camp, File)

Congratulations, you've lived to see a planet transformed back to the Pliocene Epoch, at least in terms of greenhouse gas levels.

Have a Thankful Heart

How to Have a Thankful Heart Through Difficult Times

How to Have a Thankful Heart through Difficult Times
by Veronica Neffinger

“For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:15-16)

Today's Encouragement

I Feel Forgotten 

TRACIE MILES

“For you are God, my only safe haven. Why have you tossed me aside? Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies?” Psalm 43:2 (NLT)

Several years ago, I felt sure God had forgotten me. My marriage had ended, my heart was destroyed and my mind was in a perpetual state of panic. Overall, my life was a mess.

Fri Devotional

Love

By Touching Lives 

“We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers.  Anyone who does not love remains in death.”  1 John 3:14

Prejudice is no new thing.  In fact, the early Church was riddled with it.  After thousands of years of being God’s chosen nation, the Jewish people had a hard time accepting that Gentiles could be grafted into God’s covenant of salvation through faith in Jesus.  This caused a great deal of dissension among Christ followers.  Jews, Samaritans, Greeks, Romans…as the Body of Christ grew in diversity; the potential for factions also grew.

200M Dirt Piles

200M Dirt Piles in Brazil Aren't There by Accident

Termites have moved an insane amount of soil over 4,000 years

By Arden Dier

Mounds created by termites over millennia are seen in Brazil. They had been largely obscured from view until a recent land-clearing.   (Roy Funch)

Around the time Egypt's pyramids were built, another massive project got underway in a different part of the world.

Mystery of Square Poop

BREAKING: Mystery of Square Wombat Poop Revealed

Evolutionary science finally explains the weirdest mammalian excrement.

By Jill Kiedaisch
GETTY IMAGES/KEIICHIHIKI

Frustrated when your digestive system has no regard for your need for long, unbroken stretches of sleep? Be grateful you’re not an Australian Wombat. These critters produce up to 100 bowel movements in a single night. And unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom, this marsupial poops cubes. We’re not talking roundish shapes that could be described as cube-like. We are talking actual cubes—as in a six-sided Rubik’s Cube sort of cube.

'Angry Uncle Bot'

'Angry Uncle Bot' Will Make Your Thanksgiving Less Tense

By Max Godnick

In much of the country, this year's Thanksgiving turkey will be served with a piping side of political tension.

From the dramatic midterm elections to the partisan Supreme Court confirmation battle, 2018 has been one of the most divisive years in recent memory. And many Americans nationwide are bracing themselves for difficult dinner-table conversations with relatives from across the political spectrum.

World News

Interpol Election 'a Real Humiliation for Putin'

Russian loses presidency to South Korean over concerns Moscow abuses red notices

By Newser Editors and Wire Services

Alexander Prokopchuk, Russian Interior Ministry general who's currently an Interpol vice president. Kremlin foes including financier Bill Browder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Alexei Navalny have warned that naming a top Russian police official to the job would undermine Interpol.   (Russian Interior Ministry via AP)

South Korea's Kim Jong Yang was elected Interpol's president on Wednesday, reports the AP, edging out a longtime veteran of Russia's security services who was strongly opposed by the US, UK, and other European nations.