World’s population likely to shrink after 50 years
The world’s population is likely to peak at 9.7 billion in 2064, and then decline to about 8.8 billion by the end of the century, as women get…
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Squirrel tests positive for bubonic plague in Colorado, health officials warn
A squirrel in Colorado has tested positive for the bubonic plague. The squirrel tested positive on July 11 in the town of Morrison, marking the first…
Continue Reading A nursing home in England recreates famous album covers using its residents as models
The residents of one nursing home in England have turned into album cover stars. Sydmar Lodge Care Home, located in Edgware, has been in lockdown…
Continue Reading 12-year-old boy finds a veteran’s dog tag and returns it to his family 46 years after his death
A Fourth of July kayaking trip forever changed the lives of two families when 12-year-old Kolton Conrad found a dog tag that belonged to a man who…
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized for possible infection
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been taken to the hospital and treated for a possible infection,…
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1st virus vaccine tested in U.S. shows promising results, poised for final testing
WASHINGTON, DC — A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the biotechnology company Moderna in partnership with the National Institutes of Health has…
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China has just contained the coronavirus. Now it’s battling some of the worst floods in decades
Weeks of torrential rains have caused the worst flooding in China in recent decades, destroying the homes and livelihoods of millions of people as…
Continue Reading Ghislaine Maxwell is denied bail as judge says risks of fleeing ‘are simply too great’
A federal judge Tuesday ordered Ghislaine Maxwell jailed pending trial, saying the significant financial resources, international ties and…
Continue Reading Metal band Great White apologizes for performing to a packed, maskless crowd in North Dakota
The metal band Great White has apologized for a concert that saw few masks in the audience and no social distancing. “We understand that there…
Continue Reading ‘Significant progress’ made against fire on Navy ship in San Diego
The fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego is still burning but firefighters have made “significant progress” toward putting it…
Continue Reading One day into new mask law, one man is dead and another injured over a dispute in a Michigan store
A customer at a Quality Dairy in Eaton County, Michigan, was shot dead by police after stabbing a male customer in a dispute over not wearing a face…
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Doctors cry foul as Trump, White House target Dr. Fauci
WASHINGTON, DC — As top White House officials criticized the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci — including a top aide…
Continue Reading Pennsylvania law now requires officers applying for new jobs to submit previous employment records
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a pair of police reforms bills into law on Tuesday, including background checks requiring officers seeking new…
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Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students studying online
BOSTON, Massachusetts — Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a…
Continue Reading California pulls access to LAPD gang data in database after prosecutors say officers falsified records
As 16 Los Angeles police officers remain under investigation for possibly fabricating evidence, California’s attorney general revoked access to…
Continue Reading Allentown Police investigating after video appears to show officer putting his knee on man’s neck
Police in Allentown, Pennsylvania, said they are investigating after video appears to show an officer kneeling on a man’s neck while a second…
Continue Reading Microplastics from your tires are likely reaching the most remote places on Earth, study finds
Our clothes, our takeout containers and even our tea bags shed billions of microplastic particles every day. It’s been well-documented that…
Continue Reading 1 man holds multiple trademarks on potential Washington Redskins replacement names
The Washington NFL franchise announced on Monday that it would be changing its team name, but one man has already beaten them to the punch by…
Continue Reading 9-year-old New Orleans boy is the latest child victim of gun violence in the US
A 9-year-old boy killed in a triple shooting in New Orleans has become the latest victim in a spate of gun violence in July that has taken the lives…
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Texas ICU nurse is hospitalized with Covid-19 after testing negative
HOUSTON, Texas — An ICU nurse in Texas has found herself in the position of some of the very same patients she’s spent the last few weeks…
Continue Reading A bus driver in China deliberately crashed and killed 21 people after his house was demolished
A driver deliberately crashed a bus full of passengers into a reservoir in southwestern China, hours after discovering his house had been demolished,…
Continue Reading Here’s what the CDC recommends schools do as they reopen
WASHINGTON, DC — In his push to get schools to reopen, President Donald Trump has complained that guidelines offered by the US Centers for…
Continue Reading These stunning pictures captured Comet Neowise soaring through the sky. Here’s how you can see it for yourself
A three-mile wide comet named “NEOWISE” has lit up the skies, wowing people across the globe. Being able to catch a glimpse of the comet…
Continue Reading Search for a potential mass grave from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre enters second day
The search for possible mass graves from the Tulsa race massacre is officially underway nearly a century after hundreds of Black people were brutally…
Continue Reading Astronomers witness ‘teenage’ years of our universe in explosion
The afterglow of an explosion billions of light-years away has provided astronomers with a window into what the “teenage” years of our…
Continue Reading 43 new coronavirus cases have been linked to one large house party in Michigan
Forty-three new coronavirus cases have been linked to a large house party from early July in Washtenaw County, Michigan, according to health…
Continue Reading A New Hampshire radio station cuts ties with conservative host after she filmed herself yelling at landscapers for speaking Spanish
A New Hampshire radio station cut ties with a conservative host after she filmed herself verbally attacking landscapers who were speaking Spanish.…
Continue Reading Coronavirus cases soar by more than 1 million over 5 days
Coronavirus cases soared by more than a million globally in just five days as the numbers continue to accelerate from week to week, according to…
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U.S. carries out 1st federal execution in 17 years
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — The U.S. on Tuesday carried out its first federal execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man…
Continue Reading ‘Protest Writing’ workshop gives students an outlet to fight racial injustice and bullying
On a recent Friday afternoon, a handful of high school students in Philadelphia met over video chat from their respective homes to dissect the lyrics…
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