The California firefighters who volunteered to battle flames in Australia have returned home
Capt. Leonard Dimaculangan hugged his daughter for the first time in a month after battling flames half way across the world in Australia.…
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For those in quarantine at this air base, it’s Zumba classes, sandwiches and hours of downtime
It’s a beautiful morning at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California. A handful of people are out and about on the grounds,…
Continue Reading Cherokees become the first US-based tribe to deposit traditional heirloom seeds in the Arctic vault
No Native American tribe has ever received an invitation to store its traditional heirloom seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The seed vault,…
Continue Reading Bayard Rustin, a gay civil rights leader arrested for having sex with men, is pardoned 67 years later
As a civil rights leader and an advocate for justice, Bayard Rustin was no stranger to being behind bars. He was arrested for his anti-war efforts in…
Continue Reading Gov. Hogan calls crime an ‘urgent crisis’ in Baltimore
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan called for decisive action to fight “out-of-control violent crime” he said is “destroying…
Continue Reading Investigators conducting searches in the case of Kristin Smart, a Cal Poly student who went missing in 1996
Police have served search warrants in the case of Kristin Smart, a young woman who went missing from a central California college campus in 1996, but…
Continue Reading FTC: Consumer finance website favored companies that paid
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A personal finance website founded by former University of Delaware students has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle allegations…
Continue Reading Twitter data shows major cities are flooding more than previously thought
A new study that used social media to measure the impact of tidal flooding along the US East and Gulf coasts suggests flooding happens more…
Continue Reading Judge strips terrorist of citizenship at government request
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has stripped a terrorist of his naturalized U.S. citizenship, siding with the government in the case of a…
Continue Reading Palestinians say Trump’s deal is racist. But their leaders are bereft of ideas on how to fight it
A gloomy winter of Palestinian discontent has been made grimmer still by Donald Trump’s new “peace plan.” It’s been presented…
Continue Reading Avalanche in Turkey kills rescuers who were searching for survivors of previous avalanche
At least 38 people, many of them rescuers, have been killed and dozens are feared trapped after two avalanches near Turkey’s eastern border…
Continue Reading What for W-4? Why you should care about the new tax form
If you are starting a new job this year, or just want to update your tax information with your employer, some of the paperwork is going to look…
Continue Reading A chase along the Kansas City Chiefs’ parade route ends with suspects in custody
The Kansas City Chiefs‘ championship parade route had a little more activity than was planned for Wednesday morning. A car led police on a…
Continue Reading Two stars fight, and the image is stunning
Stars that have companions aren’t always friendly to them, as evidenced by a stellar confrontation witnessed by astronomers. They studied the…
Continue Reading Dead monster galaxy found lurking in the distant universe
An ultramassive monster galaxy dating back to the early days of the universe lived fast and died young, astronomers say in a new study. The galaxy,…
Continue Reading The PGA Tour is moving a tournament from China to Indonesia over coronavirus fears
The PGA Tour Series-China is moving its global qualifying tournament from China to Indonesia due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, according a…
Continue Reading Hong Kong to quarantine all visitors from China as coronavirus death toll soars
All travelers arriving from mainland China will face a “compulsory” 14-day quarantine on reaching Hong Kong, as the number of deaths from…
Continue Reading The message in Trump’s State of the Union address
He made America Great Again. That’s the message ringing through Donald Trump’s “State of the Union” speech —the blueprint…
Continue Reading Patrick Mahomes’ classmate predicted he’d win the Super Bowl in their high school yearbook. Six years later, it came true
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and recent Super Bowl champ Patrick Mahomes was the renaissance man of sports at his Texas high school. His dad was a…
Continue Reading Does Iowa’s botched vote reporting really matter?
Does it really matter that Iowa botched its vote reporting? After an embarrassing delay, results are emerging from the first Democratic presidential…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for February 5: State of the Union, Iowa, coronavirus, Mexico, nukes
A magnitude 5 earthquake rattled Puerto Rico yesterday. No one was seriously injured, but residents are still wary, given that it’s the 11th…
Continue Reading Derek Jeter’s lone Hall of Fame dissenter may forever remain a mystery
It’s a whodunnit for baseball fans except the mystery may never be solved. Derek Jeter, the Yankees star, was voted into the 2020 Baseball Hall…
Continue Reading An unlikely friendship between a coyote and badger was caught in this adorable video
It’s almost like a scene out of a classic Disney movie — a coyote and badger teaming up to go on a wild adventure. The adorable video of…
Continue Reading Two cruise ships quarantined in Asia amid coronavirus outbreak, stranding more than 5,000
More than 5,300 people are being quarantined on two cruise ships off Hong Kong and Japan amid concerns passengers and crew were inadvertently exposed…
Continue Reading A second runner has died after a truck hit members of an Oklahoma high school track team
A second member of an Oklahoma high school track team has died after a pickup truck struck six team members who’d just started a practice run,…
Continue Reading Chechen blogger ‘violently’ murdered in French hotel room
French police are investigating the murder of a Chechen blogger, who was a vocal critic of President Ramzan Kadyrov, in a hotel room in Lille. The…
Continue Reading A kayaker vanished last month in the Florida Everglades. Days later, his phone washed ashore with clues
A Virginia kayaker who vanished during a solo trip in the Florida Everglades has been found after his cell phone washed ashore and authorities used…
Continue Reading Penguins’ speech patterns are similar to humans, a new study finds
In most human languages, the most frequently used words are short. Think “the,” and, “of ” and “a.” It turns out…
Continue Reading This is where Wuhan coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide
The Wuhan coronavirus has spread throughout the world since the first cases were detected in central China in December. At least 490 people have died…
Continue Reading China says Xi Jinping is directing its Wuhan coronavirus response, but he’s nowhere to be seen
Since he first intervened in the Wuhan coronavirus crisis in late January, ordering “all-out efforts” to contain its spread, Chinese…
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