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Jeffrey Wolf, Michael Teicher leaving company amid reorganization

LOS ANGELES — First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground — and that as many as half a million…

The move will allow Scripps to significantly expand its documentary programming

A pill used to treat a common skin ailment has been found to be an "extremely promising" treatment for alcohol consumption disorder by researchers from Oregon Health & Science University and other institutions throughout the country. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Scripps National Spelling Bee has its third executive director in the past two years

SAN DIEGO — Groundbreaking composer Lei Liang has never been to the Arctic or to its Chukchi Sea, which sits between Alaska and Siberia. But that imposing 240,000-square-mile body of water's beneath-the-surface sounds not only inspired his provocative new work, "Six Seasons," they are an intrinsic and very audible part…

Harini Logan, a cheerful 14-year-old from San Antonio, Texas, made history on June 2, 2022. She became the first Scripps National Spelling Bee champion to win after being eliminated and later reinstated. She was also the first to prevail in a lightning-round tiebreaker with the runner-up.

Logan named spelling bee champion after unprecedented lighting round

Fourteen-year-old, of San Antonio, wins first-ever ‘spell-off’ in national US competition, taking home $50,000 prize.

A 14-year-old student spells 21 words correctly during a 90-second spell-off to claim the annual competition.

She was eliminated in the multiple-choice vocabulary round, but reinstated after judges fact-checked her answer.