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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

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President Donald Trump says Jeffrey Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from him, tsunami alerts are issued for Hawaii, California, and Alaska after 8.7 magnitude earthquake, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz calls in the National Guard after a cyberattack.

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1 | Trump says Epstein 'stole' underage victim Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa leading to feud

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2 | Tsunami alerts issued for California, Hawaii and Alaska after massive earthquake off Russia

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3 | Schools could soon deploy a 'campus guardian angel' drone defense system against shootings

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4 | Governor Tim Walz calls in National Guard after huge cyberattack in St. Paul

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5 | NYC office tower shooter who killed a cop and three others in anti-NFL rage is the son of an ex-LAPD officer: report

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The Big Question 

Scientists say they've finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning strikes.

While famous inventor and U.S. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin discovered the connection between lightning and electricity back in 1752, experts still had not fully understood the journey from the cloud to the ground more than 270 years later.

"Our findings provide the first precise, quantitative explanation for how lightning initiates in nature," Victor Pasko, a professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, said in a statement announcing the findings. "It connects the dots between X-rays, electric fields and the physics of electron avalanches."

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