The compact disc or CD is turning 40 years old in the U.S. this year. The first commercial CD was released in Japan in October of 1982, but they didn't make their way to the United States until March 1983. The CD served as an alternative to larger vinyl records and bulkier cassette tapes. When the first CD came out, it could hold up to 74 minutes of music, and it was only 4.5 inches in diameter. It would eventually overtake cassette sales by the late 1980s.
Australia's Kaylee McKeown broke the women's 50-meter backstroke world record on Friday at a World Cup event in Budapest, Hungary.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen won the Formula One race at the Circuit of Americas in Austin, Texas.
Michigan State University has suspended an employee for allowing a picture of Adolf Hitler to flash on the Spartan stadium scoreboard.
Detroit police said Sunday there was no evidence that the fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue president was due to anti-Semitism.
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Police Chief James E. White said Sunday that investigators were working with the FBI to analyze forensic evidence to piece together a timeline leading to Woll’s death. That included interviewing “individuals with information that may further this investigation."
A homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in southwest Atlanta.
Venezuelans became the largest nationality arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. border last month, replacing Mexicans for the first time on record.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. is ready to protect American forces or personnel in the Middle East should the Israel-Hamas war escalate as they expect.
Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister warned Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group that if it launches its own war, Israel would “cripple it with a force it cannot even imagine.”
