Year: 2021

A Maryland candy company is selling chocolate covered cicadas to celebrate the emergence of the noisy insects that have spent the last 17 years underground. Chouquette Chocolates is selling the cicadas — dipped in either milk or dark chocolate — online, but it also posted the recipe on its Facebook page for brave chefs looking

Lava from the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is flowing away from the nearby city of Goma, according to the United Nations peacekeeping force in the country. A reconnaissance flight by a UN helicopter appeared to show the lava was not flowing toward Goma or any major population centers, the

The Mount Nyiragongo volcano outside Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo started to erupt on Saturday, according to the DRC government and the Goma Volcano Observatory. The volcano’s last major eruption in 2002 killed 250 people in Goma. There’s no indication yet of the scale of this eruption and no one has been

When he gives a speech, Ben Crump often springs an uncomfortable question on his audience. The man who has been called “Black America’s attorney general” asks listeners if they can name five Black people who have been killed by excessive police force. Audience members rattle off names like George Floyd, Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor.