Monday's Top 8 includes coverage of a party switch for presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a slew of bill signings and vetoes by California Governor Gavin Newsom, state elections in Germany, and science stories that will astound.
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Courts & the law
Ex-Army soldier charged with trying to pass US secrets to China
Germany turns to the right: Conservatives win state elections, far right surges
Germany's ruling parties — a combination of Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats — sank into deeper trouble after they suffered a drubbing in elections in Bavaria and Hesse, states that make up more than 20% of Germany's population.
Boris Rhein, top candidate of the CDU and Minister President of Hesse, celebrates at the CDU election party, in Wiesbaden, Germany, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Germany's center-right opposition won two state elections on Sunday at the halfway mark of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular national government, according to exit polls, which showed gains for a far-right party. (Lando Hass/dpa via AP)
López Obrador reverses course, will attend San Francisco summit
Researchers discover evidence of ‘catastrophic’ solar storm in ancient tree rings
Of the nine so-called Miyake events identified by analyzing radiocarbon levels in fossilized trees, one that occurred about 14,500 years ago ‘would have ejected huge volumes of energetic particles into Earth’s atmosphere. ’
Artist's illustration of events on the sun changing the conditions in near-Earth space. (NASA via Courthouse News Service)
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