Month: October 2019

Africa has long been regarded as the cradle of humankind, but scientists seeking a more specific location have narrowed in on northern Botswana as the “homeland” for all modern humans, according to a new study. There, south of the Greater Zambezi River Basin, which includes northern Botswana and parts of Namibia and Zimbabwe, the ancestors

Spurred by historic winds, several wildfires burned in California on Monday, causing evacuations and power outages in parts of the state. As the Kincade Fire and the Tick Fire burned, the Getty Fire broke out Monday morning on the west side of the 405 Freeway, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The area affected by

California’s Public Utilities Commission announced Monday it is launching a formal investigation into investor-owned utilities shutting off power during wildfires. The commission’s safety and enforcement division said it will open the investigation in the next 30 days to look at the Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) events that took place in 2019, and whether utility

The manhunt has ended for a gunman who opened fire at an off-campus homecoming party near Greenville, Texas, police said. Brandon Gonzales, 23, was arrested and charged Monday in connection with the shooting that left two dead and 14 others injured during a party Saturday, said Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks. Gonzales was arrested without

A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet — which could make it the smallest in the solar system — after new research revealed its shape, astronomers said on Monday. Nestled in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is an object that may have been overlooked. They believe the asteroid Hygiea should

Lebanon is on the verge of economic collapse unless an “immediate solution” can be found to end days of nationwide protests that have paralyzed the country, Central Bank Governor Riad Salame told CNN in an exclusive interview Monday. Lebanon’s banks have been closed since the demonstrations, sparked by a series of proposed austerity measures including

An 84-year-old man has been arrested after shots were fired near a mosque in southwestern France, officials said. Pyrenees-Atlantique Police said a man tried to set fire to the door of a mosque in the city of Bayonne, and shot at two men, aged 74 and 78, who startled him. Both were seriously injured. The

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant says two pilots live streamed video from a hidden camera in a commercial airliner’s lavatory to an iPad in the cockpit, a lawsuit says. The alleged incident happened February 27, 2017, while Renee Steinaker was working on Flight 1088 from Pittsburgh to Phoenix, according to the complaint that Steinaker and