Kate Seamons

Knoxville

President at Newser

Editor-in-chief of @newser, follower of women's issues, consumer of sauvignon blanc

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Articles

Construction Workers Find an Ancient Child Mummy

4 days ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

Utility workers digging to install a gas pipeline in Lima just got a little more than they bargained for: a 1,000-year-old mummy, sitting just 20 inches below the surface. The discovery, made last week in the city's Puente Piedra district, involved the remains of what CBS News reports is a boy estimated to be between 10 and 15 years old.
Elio Highlights a Pixar Problem

4 days ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

As we reported yesterday, Pixar's latest original film crash-landed at the box office this weekend, with Elio marking the studio's worst opening ever despite mostly positive reviews. The New York Times takes a look at the headwinds facing the "once-unstoppable" Pixar. Its animated sci-fi adventure—which cost at least $250 million to produce and market—faced a tougher landscape than Pixar anticipated.
Depp Is Back, and His Fury at Some in Hollywood Is Clear

4 days ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

Once Hollywood's ultimate outsider, Johnny Depp insists he never left the spotlight—despite headlines about a "comeback." But as Jonathan Dean writes in a lengthy piece for the Times of London, Depp is about to "head out into the world again." He made his first major studio return with Day Drinker (out in 2026); Modi, a film he directed about the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, will be released in July.
Why the Strait of Hormuz Is Such a Question Mark

4 days ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

It's less a million-dollar question and more a billion-dollar one: Will Iran move to close the Strait of Hormuz? About 20 million barrels of oil—amounting to about 20% of global oil and gas—flow through the strait daily by the US Energy Information Administration's count, and Reuters reports Secretary of State Marco Rubio cautioned that "it's economic suicide for them if they do it.
Iran Issues Single-Sentence Warning to Trump

4 days ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

Iran on Monday issued a direct warning to President Trump in the wake of the US attack on its nuclear sites and expressed that Tehran now sees a greater number of "legitimate targets" for retaliation.
The Wild Story of How the Enhanced Games Came to Life

5 days ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

The Enhanced Games is slated to debut in Las Vegas in 2026, openly encouraging athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs as they chase world records and million-dollar prizes. At the center of this controversial movement are ex-Olympians, Silicon Valley investors, and a mission to redefine the limits of human achievement. In a lengthy piece for Wired, Amit Katwala looks at how a "crazy joke" turned into something that actually might happen.
Tarp-Covered Poop Lagoons Could Be a Climate Solution

5 days ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

A new study out of California suggests a simple fix could make a big dent in methane emissions from dairy farms: just cover manure lagoons with a tarp. Researchers with the University of California, Riverside, tracked methane emissions at a large dairy operation in Tulare County before and after a "digester" system—essentially a sealed cover that traps methane, which is then extracted and burned to generate electricity or converted into natural gas—was installed over its manure pond.
It's 'Fullest Picture Yet' of Man Who Tried to Kill Trump

6 days ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

What drove a "nerdy engineering student on the dean's list" to attempt to take Donald Trump's life? It's a largely unanswered question, and one Steve Eder and Tawnell D. Hobbs attempt to chip away at for the New York Times.
Hot Dog Allegedly Sparked Double-Murder at Nudist Colony

1 week ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

The purchase of a hot dog is allegedly at the center of a double murder case out of Redlands, California, where prosecutors say Michael Sparks killed his elderly neighbors at the Olive Dell Ranch nudist resort last summer. The couple, Daniel and Stephanie Menard, had lived next door to Sparks for years.
US Rolls Out Its Strategy to Stop Flesh-Eating Screwworm

1 week ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

Millions of sterile flies will soon take flight from a new Texas facility, as the US launches an ambitious campaign to halt the advance of a flesh-eating parasite threatening American livestock. The strategy isn't new—the US used it to largely eradicate the screwworm population in the 1960s. But for various reasons, the screwworm has crept north through Central America and has been detected just 700 miles from the Texas-Mexico border.