Western wildfires spreading smoke as far as Canada and New York
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Enormous wildfires are burning across several Western states, but winds are carrying the smoke much further. The National Weather Service shared satellite images Tuesday showing smoke drifting southeast across New York and the tri-state area.
The service said the smoke would filter the sunshine throughout the day — and some New Yorkers woke up to hazy skies and a bright orange sun. This phenomenon has happened before, when smoke from wildfires in the West spread all the way to Washington, D.C. in September 2020, causing the sky to look hazy and orange.Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
Washington — As former President Donald Trump's "hush money" criminal trial in New York proceeds to closing arguments next week, the legal focus is moving south. His attorneys and longtime aide Walt Nauta appeared before Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, where they sparred with prosecutors during two contentious, day-long hearings on Wednesday.