The Daily Populous

A 15-year-old campaign volunteer was shot in Savannah, Georgia, on Thursday while knocking on doors for Sen. Raphael Warnock's re-election bid, local police said.

According to authorities, Savannah police detectives had arrested a 42-year-old local man who was suspected of shooting the teenager outside his home.

The initial probe into the shooting found that the teenager was volunteering for the Warnock campaign in the lead-up to the runoff election Tuesday between the Democratic senator and Herschel Walker, a former college football star running on the Republican ticket. »

Days before, another pipe bomb was discovered on a different tugboat on the river in October 2021, court documents state.

Prosecutors said a man dropped the bombs onto the boats from a bridge — but his motive remains a mystery.

Marietta borders the Ohio River and West Virginia. U.S. Attorney Will Thompson called the case “very perplexing.”. »

The first golden bandicoots have been born in NSW's far north-west in 100 years, after formerly being extinct in the region.

Key points: Golden bandicoots have been breeding rapidly in Sturt National Park since being introduced to as part of the Wild Deserts project.

Wild Deserts project coordinator Reece Pedler said there had been "incredibly rapid reproduction" since the animals had been released. »

For years, military strategists have anticipated the arrival of the so-called drone swarm, a large cluster of small flying machines that will herald a new era of intelligent warfare.

Imagining a perfected drone swarm, the science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson writes in his novel The Ministry for the Future:.

He envisions drone swarms bringing us to an era of warfare between competing robot armies, though today Russia is using its drone groups to attack civilian targets. »