Mexico’s president admits Chihuahua has ‘homicide problem’ during Juarez visit
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obador visited Juarez on Friday, holding a press conference at a military garrison,…
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Administration touts 100th mile of border wall under Trump
YUMA, Arizona — Trump administration officials on Friday touted the 100th mile (161st kilometer) of border wall to be built since the president…
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MIT professor accepted money from Jeffrey Epstein and didn’t tell the school, report says
A tenured Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been placed on administrative leave because he accepted two research donations and a…
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5.2 aftershock hits Puerto Rico days after earthquake
A 5.2 magnitude aftershock hit Puerto Rico’s southern coast on Friday afternoon, days after an earthquake shook the island and left much of it…
Continue Reading An Oregon man faces hate crimes charges after allegedly beating a woman from India
An Oregon man faces hate crimes and attempted murder charges after prosecutors say he attacked a 70-year-old woman from India. Bond for James Lamb…
Continue Reading Connecticut police wore purple in support of domestic violence victims on the day a man suspected of killing his wife was arrested
Connecticut State Police officers wore purple in support of domestic violence victims on the day Fotis Dulos was arrested in the suspected killing of…
Continue Reading Women staged a flash protest outside the courthouse where Harvey Weinstein is being tried
“It’s not my fault — not where I was, not how I dress,” a female flash mob chanted outside a Manhattan criminal court on Friday.…
Continue Reading Victims of Iran plane crash hailed from around the world
The 176 victims onboard the Boeing 737 plane that crashed after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday hailed from various countries. They included 82…
Continue Reading Charles Barkley is donating another $1 million to a historically black college
Retired NBA superstar Charles Barkley is donating another $1 million to a historically black college. Founded in 1898, Miles College is a…
Continue Reading Hundreds of unwelcome vultures are perched on US Border Patrol’s Texas radio towers
Hundreds of vultures have made a perch out of a US Customs and Border Protection radio tower, and the government has had enough. Approximately 300…
Continue Reading Thanks to a new DNA analysis, a Georgia man is exonerated of rape and freed from prison after 17 years
A Georgia man who served 17 years of a 20-year sentence has been exonerated from his rape conviction and released from prison, after a judge agreed…
Continue Reading Polish state TV ordered to apologize for migrants comments
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Poland has found state TV station guilty of insulting city authorities in Gdansk, including its slain mayor, and…
Continue Reading This exoplanet is in a death dance with its star
Planets tend to suffer the consequences as the stars they orbit go through different phases. And in about three million years, the exoplanet known as…
Continue Reading College staffer out of a job over post suggesting Iran list Mall of America and Kardashian home as targets
A staff member at a Massachusetts college is out of a job after a controversial Facebook post suggesting Iran put a Kardashian’s home and the…
Continue Reading Speaker Pelosi prepares to send Trump articles of impeachment to U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she’s preparing to send the impeachment articles to the Senate next week to…
Continue Reading Mars, already largely desert, is losing water quicker than expected, study says
Once, Mars was a warm planet that could potentially support life and water on its surface. But something changed about 3.5 billion years ago and it…
Continue Reading Video shows the moment of plane crash in Iran
Video obtained by CNN recorded the moment that Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 crashed just after taking off from Tehran’s airport.…
Continue Reading Russian soldier accused of mass shooting says he was victim of hazing – report
A Russian soldier on trial for shooting and killing eight of his fellow service members has said he was the victim of “hazing,” Russian…
Continue Reading Here’s how to help Australia bushfire victims
The devastating Australian bushfires have been burning for months and there’s no end in sight. They’ve taken the lives of citizens and…
Continue Reading Wolf moon eclipse kicks off the first of 13 full moons in 2020
This year started off with a meteor shower and the first month of 2020 continues with a penumbral lunar eclipse during the full moon, on Friday.…
Continue Reading She’s 7 and was born intersex. Why her parents elected to let her grow up without surgical intervention
Seven-year-old Rosie Lohman loves arts and crafts (especially any involving glitter), currently wants to be a DJ when she grows up, and happens to…
Continue Reading Meet NASA’s first astronaut graduates of the Artemis program, eligible for missions to the moon and Mars
After more than two years of training, the first class of NASA astronaut candidates under the agency’s program to land the first woman and next…
Continue Reading More plants are growing around Everest — and the consequences could be serious
Grasses, shrubs and mosses are growing and expanding around Mount Everest and across the Himalayan region as the area continues to experience the…
Continue Reading A brief lockdown at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida has been lifted
Florida’s MacDill Air Force Base was briefly locked down Friday morning over concerns about an armed person outside it, officials said. The…
Continue Reading A NASA high school intern helps discover planet with two suns
NASA’s planet-hunting TESS mission has discovered multiple intriguing planets since it first began searching the sky in the summer of 2018. But…
Continue Reading India’s Supreme Court orders review of Kashmir internet shutdown
The Indian government has one week to review the suspension of internet services in Indian-administered Kashmir following an order from the Supreme…
Continue Reading Los Angeles mayor asks Trump administration for federal funding to help with homelessness
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has formally asked the Trump administration for federal funding to help address the city’s homelessness crisis.…
Continue Reading TESS mission spots Earth-size potentially habitable planet and ‘Tatooine’ system
NASA’s planet-hunting mission TESS has found its first potentially habitable exoplanet the size of Earth orbiting a star about 100 light-years…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for January 10: Iran, Brexit, infrastructure, China, Taiwan
Subaru owners, listen up: Nearly 500,000 vehicles are being recalled because of an issue with the airbags. Here’s what you need to know to Get…
Continue Reading Teen survives 30 hours in snowy Utah mountains
Nicolas Stacy-Alcantara had planned to be back in time for dinner. Instead, the 17-year-old’s day hike in Millcreek Canyon turned into 30 hours…
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