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Day: July 24, 2019

  • 3 charged after NYPD officers doused with water in NYC

    Police on Wednesday announced that three men have been arrested in connection with incidents of on-duty NYPD officers being drenched with water. The officers had been sent to break up unruly gatherings around open fire hydrants during the heatwave in Brownsville and Harlem – but they got soaked themselves as onlookers jeered. ABC7 New York…

  • Who Invented The Light Bulb?

    In 2018 the LED lighting market was worth almost $52 billion and is expected to reach over $112 billion by 2024. But 200 years before LEDs were a multibillion-dollar industry, and decades before Thomas Edison showed up, light bulbs were an idea just starting to enter the minds of curious scientists. CNBC News video