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USA TODAY Former President Donald Trump wanted to make a spectacle out of his Manhattan arraignment on criminal charges in April. Imagine what he might try to do on his home turf in South Florida with an entire five days to plan for it. On Thursday evening, when Trump made the dramatic announcement on his social media platform that he'd been indicted by the Department of Justice, he made sure to include the details so his supporters could attend: The federal courthouse, Miami, 3 p.m., Tuesday. As he did after his first indictment, Trump immediately began issuing calls to arms, of sorts, to his followers on Truth Social, calling it "a DARK DAY for the United States of America." Within minutes, he wa But what, exactly, might happen on Tuesday before, during and after Trump's initial court appearance as the first president in history to face federal felony charges? The short answer is that nobody knows. Because Trump is the master of predictable unpredictability, he might decide to adopt a much more contentious approach than he did on , Or the former president might try to rally his supporters as he's done on so many occasions, including on Jan. 6, 2021, before a bunch of them stormed the U.S. Capitol. The latter scenario is possible but unlikely, according to security experts, former federal prosecutors and dedicated Trump watchers interviewed by USA TODAY. Even so, "the range of possibilities are fairly open-ended – from a relatively uneventful arraignment where TV cameras ...

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A Jupiter-sized planet has been found orbiting a white dwarf star in the Milky Way, providing clues as to what will happen in our solar system when the sun eventually dies. An international team of astronomers observed the phenomenon, which forms when a star runs out of nuclear fuel to burn, and dies. The distant planet, a gas giant with a mass 1.4 times that of Jupiter, was able to survive the death of its host star. The scientists say the discovery is in keeping with previous calculations that more than half of white dwarf stars may have similar giant planets orbiting them. Though the phenomenon had been predicted, it had never been observed before. The study’s first author, Joshua Blackman of the University of Tasmania, said: “We predict this planet has a distance [from the white dwarf] of between 2.5 and six times the distance of the Earth from the sun, which is similar to that of Jupiter.” Read more Blackman said the discovery shed light on what will happen when the sun runs out of fuel. “This is the first time we’ve found … a system which resembles what we expect to happen to our solar system in five or six billion years’ time.” In five billion years, the sun is expected to expand, becoming what is known as a Once the sun completely runs out fuel, it will contract into a cold corpse of a star – a white dwarf. Themiya Nanayakkara, an astronomer at the Swinburne University of Technology who was not involved in the research, said the discovery suggested outer gas giant ...

Predicting the future is hard, but that doesn't stop people from trying—especially people named In this list, WIRED has gathered a handful of far-reaching goals as a framework for what to expect in the decade ahead. Space colonies. A mega-expansion in genome sequencing. Sweet little nuclear power plants. It's never too early to start holding the promise-makers responsible for their claims. After all, even a bajillionaire needs an accountability buddy. Teeny Tiny Nuclear Power Plants By 2030, the Vogtle power plant in Georgia, the only nuclear power station currently under construction in the US, will have been running for a few years. It's likely to be the decade's only new large-scale nuclear power plant to come online, but that doesn’t mean the United States is abandoning fission energy. Instead, expect to see Just a fraction of the size of a typical nuclear reactor, these advanced ones can be mass-produced and easily shipped anywhere in the country, no matter how remote. The first small reactors, developed by a company called NuScale Power, should start splitting atoms at Idaho National Laboratories in 2026. The Department of Energy is also working to get even smaller reactors, known as microreactors, churning out electrons at a federal facility by 2027. Musk’s Mars timeline is predictably slippery. In 2017 he predicted SpaceX would send a cargo mission to Mars by 2022. The following year, he said the first crewed mission to Mars would happen in seven to ten years, or n...

Supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrate his victory in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images Supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrate his victory in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images Japan takes over G7 presidency Croatia Sweden assumes European Council presidency 3 January First of five consecutive days of strike action on 10 January Golden Globes ceremony. Check out the full list of nominations Duke of Sussex memoir, 13 -14 January Czech 16 -23 January Davos 16 -29 January Australian Tennis Open. Former winner Novak Djokovic, who missed last year’s event because he refuses to have a Covid vaccine, 22 January Fiftieth anniversary of 23 -26 January Paris haute couture fashion week 24 January 25 January Burns Night 27 January Holocaust Memorial Day January undated Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, tentatively scheduled to visit China FEBRUARY BTS perform at the Grammy awards in Las Vegas in April 2022. This year’s event will take place on 5 February. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP 1 February US Federal Reserve’s first interest rate decision of the year. The Fed hiked rates seven times in 2022 to Twentieth anniversary of the 2 February Bank of England decides 1 -28 February 4 February -18 March Six Nations rugby tournament 5 February Grammy awards G7 price cap/EU ban on Russian oil products. The 9 Fe...

A kayaker paddles down an interstate in Pennsylvania after flooding from Hurricane Ida earlier this year. Several dozen people died, some in cars and basement apartments, during extreme flash flooding. Branden Eastwood/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Branden Eastwood/AFP via Getty Images A kayaker paddles down an interstate in Pennsylvania after flooding from Hurricane Ida earlier this year. Several dozen people died, some in cars and basement apartments, during extreme flash flooding. Branden Eastwood/AFP via Getty Images There's one number heard more than any other from the podiums at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland: 1.5 degrees Celsius. That's the global climate change goal world leaders agreed to strive for. By limiting the planet's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, by 2100, the hope is to stave off severe climate disruptions that could exacerbate hunger, conflict and drought worldwide. The 1.5 degree target has long been championed by developing nations, where millions of people are among the most vulnerable to climate change. At the 2015 Paris climate negotiations, they pushed industrialized countries to improve on the 2 degree Celsius goal held at the time, since wealthier nations are responsible for most greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution. At the climate negotiations now underway, nations are touting new commitments to cut their heat-trapping emissions by switching to clean energ...

To help game out the consequences of another Trump administration, I turned to 21 experts in the presidency, political science, public administration, the military, intelligence, foreign affairs, economics and civil rights. They sketched chillingly plausible chains of potential actions and reactions that could unravel the nation. “I think it would be the end of the republic,” says Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz, one of the historians President Biden consulted in August about Based on what these experts described, here’s a portrait of a democratic crackup in three phases. “Among the first things he would do, in the initial hours of his presidency, would be to fire [FBI Director] Christopher Wray and purge the FBI,” says Larry Diamond, senior fellow in global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Diamond’s research has focused on the plight of democracy in other countries, but lately he’s been thinking and writing about its ailments in America. Trump “would then set about trying to politicize the FBI, the intelligence agencies and as much of the government as possible,” Diamond continues. “He has complete authority to appoint the senior ranks of the National Security Council. So you could see [retired Lt. Gen.] Michael Flynn” — who was FBI directors serve 10-year terms across presidential terms to depoliticize the job. Wray, who was appointed by Trump but lost his favor, ascended to the post in 2017 after Tru...

Supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrate his victory in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images Supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrate his victory in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images Japan takes over G7 presidency Croatia Sweden assumes European Council presidency 3 January First of five consecutive days of strike action on 10 January Golden Globes ceremony. Check out the full list of nominations Duke of Sussex memoir, 13 -14 January Czech 16 -23 January Davos 16 -29 January Australian Tennis Open. Former winner Novak Djokovic, who missed last year’s event because he refuses to have a Covid vaccine, 22 January Fiftieth anniversary of 23 -26 January Paris haute couture fashion week 24 January 25 January Burns Night 27 January Holocaust Memorial Day January undated Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, tentatively scheduled to visit China FEBRUARY BTS perform at the Grammy awards in Las Vegas in April 2022. This year’s event will take place on 5 February. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP 1 February US Federal Reserve’s first interest rate decision of the year. The Fed hiked rates seven times in 2022 to Twentieth anniversary of the 2 February Bank of England decides 1 -28 February 4 February -18 March Six Nations rugby tournament 5 February Grammy awards G7 price cap/EU ban on Russian oil products. The 9 Fe...

Predicting the future is hard, but that doesn't stop people from trying—especially people named In this list, WIRED has gathered a handful of far-reaching goals as a framework for what to expect in the decade ahead. Space colonies. A mega-expansion in genome sequencing. Sweet little nuclear power plants. It's never too early to start holding the promise-makers responsible for their claims. After all, even a bajillionaire needs an accountability buddy. Teeny Tiny Nuclear Power Plants By 2030, the Vogtle power plant in Georgia, the only nuclear power station currently under construction in the US, will have been running for a few years. It's likely to be the decade's only new large-scale nuclear power plant to come online, but that doesn’t mean the United States is abandoning fission energy. Instead, expect to see Just a fraction of the size of a typical nuclear reactor, these advanced ones can be mass-produced and easily shipped anywhere in the country, no matter how remote. The first small reactors, developed by a company called NuScale Power, should start splitting atoms at Idaho National Laboratories in 2026. The Department of Energy is also working to get even smaller reactors, known as microreactors, churning out electrons at a federal facility by 2027. Musk’s Mars timeline is predictably slippery. In 2017 he predicted SpaceX would send a cargo mission to Mars by 2022. The following year, he said the first crewed mission to Mars would happen in seven to ten years, or n...

A Jupiter-sized planet has been found orbiting a white dwarf star in the Milky Way, providing clues as to what will happen in our solar system when the sun eventually dies. An international team of astronomers observed the phenomenon, which forms when a star runs out of nuclear fuel to burn, and dies. The distant planet, a gas giant with a mass 1.4 times that of Jupiter, was able to survive the death of its host star. The scientists say the discovery is in keeping with previous calculations that more than half of white dwarf stars may have similar giant planets orbiting them. Though the phenomenon had been predicted, it had never been observed before. The study’s first author, Joshua Blackman of the University of Tasmania, said: “We predict this planet has a distance [from the white dwarf] of between 2.5 and six times the distance of the Earth from the sun, which is similar to that of Jupiter.” Read more Blackman said the discovery shed light on what will happen when the sun runs out of fuel. “This is the first time we’ve found … a system which resembles what we expect to happen to our solar system in five or six billion years’ time.” In five billion years, the sun is expected to expand, becoming what is known as a Once the sun completely runs out fuel, it will contract into a cold corpse of a star – a white dwarf. Themiya Nanayakkara, an astronomer at the Swinburne University of Technology who was not involved in the research, said the discovery suggested outer gas giant ...