- South Korea celebrated the safe capture of Neukgu, a two-year-old wolf that escaped from a Daejeon zoo nine days earlier and became a national celebrity. Animal rights activists had feared the wolf might be killed during capture, as happened to a puma that escaped from the same zoo in 2018.
- NASA’s SWOT satellite produced the first high-resolution 3D map of a major tsunami, generated by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in the Kuril-Kamchatka zone in July 2025, revealing complex wave patterns that challenge previous models.
- Six years after COVID, some patients are still refusing blood transfusions from vaccinated donors, a phenomenon health experts attribute to persistent misinformation about vaccine safety.
Walter Murrow
April 17, 2026
