All eyes are on New Hampshire and the nation’s first main election. This yr’s Oscar nominations have been revealed. And the Doomsday Clock predicts how shut people are to whole annihilation.
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Can Haley pull off a Trump upset?
New Hampshire main day has arrived. The first-in-the-nation contest has lengthy wielded the facility to make or break presidential campaigns – giving some a lift and tearing others to the bottom. Today, all eyes are on the Granite State’s Republican contest as former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley tries to maintain her candidacy alive in opposition to front-runner former President Donald Trump. 🗳️ Follow together with our dwell protection.
And the Oscar nominees are …
Meanwhile, in Hollywood: It’s probably the most great – or dreadful – day of the yr for a lot of. Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb biopic “Oppenheimer” cemented itself as an awards-season powerhouse Tuesday morning, scoring 13 nominations for the 96th Academy Awards. The fantastical darkish comedy “Poor Things” acquired 11 nods, whereas Martin Scorsese’s Western crime epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” garnered 10. Meanwhile, large names akin to Willem Dafoe (“Poor Things”) and Julianne Moore (“May December”) awoke to the sad information that they have been snubbed for Oscar nominations. The staff behind “Saltburn” stored their champagne corked, too. This yr’s Oscars ceremony will air dwell on March 10 at 7 p.m. EST on ABC. 🏆 Here’s a have a look at the nominees.
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Doomsday attracts ever close to
The finish is as nigh as ever. So say the specialists sustaining the ominous Doomsday Clock, who on Tuesday stated that humanity remains to be as shut as ever to international disaster, which may contain nuclear struggle, local weather change, or perhaps even synthetic intelligence. The time on the symbolic clock – 90 seconds to midnight – is identical as final yr, and the closest to midnight the clock has ever been. The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for the way shut humanity is to self-annihilation, based on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which has maintained the clock since 1947. ⏰ Here’s what to know concerning the prediction.
Weather whiplash
Areas throughout the nation have been hit with harmful climate situations as southern California and components of the Southeast and Texas responded to flash flood warnings amid heavy rainfall. Severe flash flooding in San Diego swept away automobiles and triggered a state of emergency. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service warned of main flooding in Rochester, Minnesota, and the Cleveland space, with rivers and creeks swelling. The deluge and hotter temperatures this week observe below-freezing temperatures final week in components of Texas and the South, main forecasters to say the climate appears like “whiplash.” ⛈️ A have a look at the complete forecast.
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