A mother’s warning: If you have white teen sons, listen up …
Joanna Schroeder has a warning for parents of teen and tween white boys: If you don’t pay attention to their online lives, the white…
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Tiny shell fossils reveal how ocean acidification can cause mass extinction
Ocean acidification caused a mass extinction of marine life 66 million years ago, research into tiny shell fossils has shown. This could have…
Continue Reading Florida Senate Rules Committee votes not to reinstate sheriff suspended after Parkland school shooting
The Florida Senate Rules Committee voted Monday to support the governor’s removal of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel over his…
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Evacuation orders lifted after Palisades Fire leaves 2 injured and burns at least 40 acres in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Fire Department lifted its mandatory evacuation orders after a fire ripped across the hillside of the affluent Pacific Palisades area…
Continue Reading A powerful tornado churned through northern Dallas, knocking out power and leaving damage in its wake
Authorities went door to door in parts of northern Dallas Monday after a powerful weekend tornado knocked out power and caused severe damage. A line…
Continue Reading Chicago’s teacher strike heads into another week, with no end in sight. Here’s what’s at stake
Chicago public schools students will miss classes for a fourth day on Tuesday as a teachers’ strike drags on. The Chicago Teachers Union and…
Continue Reading An African American security guard fired after he asked a student to not call him the n-word is ‘back’
An African American security guard in Wisconsin who was fired for asking a student not to call him the n-word is celebrating his reinstatement.…
Continue Reading Buckle up — Canada’s election will be a cliffhanger
Nasty. It is not a word associated much with Canada — except perhaps with the winters here. But during this election campaign, nastiness has…
Continue Reading PG&E says more than 200,000 customers may lose power in northern and central California this week
Less than two weeks after California’s largest utility shut off power to hundreds of thousands of customers to help prevent a wildfire, it says…
Continue Reading West is paying the price for supporting Hong Kong riots, Chinese state media says
The Chinese government and state-run media have accused Western countries of hypocrisy in their attitude to violent protests in Spain, Chile and Hong…
Continue Reading Researchers discover Japanese carrier from the World War II Battle of Midway
A team of deep-sea explorers and historians have discovered a Japanese aircraft carrier that sank during the historic Battle of Midway in World War…
Continue Reading Police say two teens urinated on someone and used racial slurs at a football game in New Jersey
Two New Jersey teenagers face multiple charges after someone was urinated on and racial slurs were used at a high school football game, police said.…
Continue Reading Lori Loughlin’s daughters are no longer enrolled at USC, university says
Lori Loughlin’s daughters are no longer enrolled at the University of Southern California, the school said in a statement to CNN on Monday.…
Continue Reading Netanyahu fails again to form new Israeli government, opening door for political rival
For the second time this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to form a government, opening the door for his main rival Benny…
Continue Reading Atatiana Jefferson’s funeral to be held Thursday, family attorney says
The funeral of Atatiana Jefferson will officially be held Thursday at 11 a.m., according to civil rights attorney Lee Merritt. Merritt tweeted the…
Continue Reading No longer the obedient NATO ally, Erdogan floats nuclear option
It’s no secret that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees his country as the pre-eminent Muslim power in the Middle East. He regards his…
Continue Reading Four dead in Bangladesh riot over offensive Facebook post
Four people were killed Sunday when Bangladesh police fired on a crowd after clashes erupted over a Facebook post that angered Muslims. Thousands of…
Continue Reading New photo shows Felicity Huffman in a prison uniform as she serves 13 days in college cheating case
The public got its first look at actress Felicity Huffman’s life in prison as photos and a video taken Saturday showed her walking in a green…
Continue Reading A girls soccer team was penalized for their ‘equal pay’ shirts. Now their message is being celebrated
When a girl’s high school varsity soccer team in Vermont played a game wearing matching shirts emblazoned with a bold message hidden under…
Continue Reading Army identifies three soldiers killed in training accident at Georgia base
The US Army on Monday identified the three soldiers killed during a training accident in Georgia early Sunday morning that injured three others. The…
Continue Reading Harvard researchers grew meat in a lab from cow and rabbit cells. It looks a lot like the real thing
A team of Harvard bioengineers took a major step in taking cultured meat from lab to table. Researchers successfully grew cow and rabbit meat from an…
Continue Reading 17-year-old arrested after threatening school shooting on Facebook
A 17-year-old male was arrested Monday for allegedly posting on Facebook that he would participate in a shooting at an Albany, New York, high school,…
Continue Reading Battery or charger in luggage explodes at Chicago’s Midway Airport
The bomb squad was called to Midway International Airport in Chicago on Monday after a cell phone battery or charger in someone’s luggage…
Continue Reading The Antarctic ozone hole is the smallest since it was discovered
While the ozone hole over Antarctica typically grows in September and October, scientists observed the smallest ozone hole since they first began…
Continue Reading Burning tires, brides and ‘Baby Shark.’ What you need to know about protests engulfing Lebanon
Fury at political elites has engulfed Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets across the country for anti-government protests,…
Continue Reading Milwaukee police officer buys children car seats instead of ticketing their mom
When Andrella “Lashae” Jackson was pulled over on October 12 by a Milwaukee police officer who noticed her two young daughters were not…
Continue Reading The Tulsa race massacre in the ‘Watchmen’ premiere was real. Here’s what happened in the horrific event
When the police shooting of unarmed father Terence Crutcher happened on September 16, 2016, in Tulsa, the city’s reaction was furious —…
Continue Reading After an historic all-female spacewalk, astronaut has moon dream
In her high school yearbook, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir wrote “go for a spacewalk” on the list of her plans for the future, Meir said…
Continue Reading American Airlines flight diverted after cleaning chemical spillage in cabin
An American Airlines flight from London to Philadelphia landed in Ireland after cleaning chemicals leaked in the aircraft cabin on Monday.…
Continue Reading Houston Astros pitcher gives World Series tickets to fans who were taunted at Yankee Stadium
Three Houston Astros fans needed a security escort after they said they were hassled in the stands at Yankee Stadium, but they’re getting the…
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