A professor at Iowa State University has come under fire for threatening to discipline students who submit projects or papers opposing abortion, the…
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico Sunday on a path toward the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Laura battered…
Continue Reading More than 250 firefighters with the Philadelphia Fire Department spent more than nine hours battling a massive six-alarm blaze at a warehouse complex…
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s acting secretary on Sunday cast doubt on the department’s authority to send its agents…
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump’s sister said her brother has “no principles,” “you can’t trust him” and he has been “lying”…
Continue Reading A driver for UPS was arrested in a series of interstate shootings spanning three counties in southwest Oregon, authorities said. Kenneth Ayers, 49,…
Continue Reading Teachers across the United States are preparing to welcome students back to the classroom. But as coronavirus cases rise, many worry that young…
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Springfield police are looking for a man who allegedly gave a Walmart shopper a “Covid hug.” The police department in Massachusetts said…
Continue Reading Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed flip flops made from algae-based, polyurethane materials to help fight plastic…
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California firefighters are struggling to contain massive wildfires that left at least four people dead and ruined neighborhoods — and…
Continue Reading Cai Xia is no stranger to defying expectations. During her years at the Chinese Communist Party’s top training center and think tank, the…
Continue Reading Both the French president and prime minister are calling for justice after graffiti denying the Holocaust was found at a memorial center in the…
Continue Reading An “incredibly reckless” gathering has brought the suspensions of 23 Syracuse University students, school officials say in a letter. The…
Continue Reading Minnesota police say 18-year-old Raina Lynn Neeland drowned after carrying several children to safety who were near a dam. Police responded to a call…
Continue Reading Erik Moses, a former XFL team president, is the first Black person to be named president at a NASCAR track. Moses was named president of Nashville…
Continue Reading The body of off-duty firefighter Sgt. Sivad Johnson has been recovered by Detroit police and fire divers, according to a tweet from the Michigan…
Continue Reading A civil rights group is calling for an investigation into a South Carolina councilman who posted a photo of himself dressed in traditional Arab and…
Continue Reading It took just one week into the fall semester for multiple Covid-19 clusters to emerge at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill —…
Continue Reading The coronavirus pandemic has upended American life, from the way we work and learn to the way we travel, shop and socialize — even to the way…
Continue Reading Well, 2020 keeps getting better all the time. Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward…
Continue Reading Some call it the Rolls Royce of chalk, the Steinway of writing utensils. Some say it’s unbreakable, others say it leaves no dust behind. And it…
Continue Reading A New York couple that has been battling the state government in court for the right to hold a wedding with 175 guests — more people than…
Continue Reading Jack Sherman, a guitarist who played on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ debut album, has died at 64, the band announced on Instagram. “He was…
Continue Reading On an August afternoon in 1991, a federal judge in California sent an unmistakable message in the “war on drugs” when he sentenced four…
Continue Reading Zaran Vachha was born and raised in Hong Kong. Yet the 34-year-old, of Indian, Iranian, Malay and Sri Lankan descent, says the Chinese city has never…
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A Taco Bell employee in Tennessee is being hailed a hero for saving a man’s life after he passed out in the drive-thru. Sonja Nixon Frazier,…
Continue Reading Songbirds, they’re just like us. Researchers have found that when song sparrows chirp loudly outside your window in the wee hours of the…
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WASHINGTON, DC — Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC News on Friday that as president, he would…
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Rangers are making history with three landmark promotions announced this week. After nearly 200 years, the Texas…
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Just over a week after announcing that the Kentucky Derby would allow fans in the stands to witness the 146th edition, organizers have changed their…
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