Protest marks the anniversary of the March on Washington
Aug 31, 2020
WASHINGTON—Thousands of civil rights activists gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and around its reflecting pool on Friday. The Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network […]
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Protest marks the anniversary of the March on Washington
WASHINGTON—Thousands of civil rights activists gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and around its reflecting pool on Friday. The Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network […]
Penguin math
Aug 28, 2020
During harsh Antarctic winters, temperatures can drop to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit with winds up to 87 miles per hour. To stay warm, emperor penguins squeeze […]
Teams boycott games over police shootings
Aug 27, 2020
The Milwaukee Bucks remained in their locker room for their playoff game against the Orlando Magic Wednesday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The boycott comes after […]
Hurricane Laura intensifies, prompts evacuations along Gulf Coast
Aug 26, 2020
Forecasters said Hurricane Laura continues to gather strength Wednesday morning and could make landfall in Texas or Louisiana as a powerful Category 4 storm late Wednesday […]
A defiant dictator
Aug 25, 2020
BELARUS: Protests demanding the ouster of “Europe’s last dictator,” President Alexander Lukashenko, continue for a second week, with the embattled leader landing by helicopter at his residence and emerging […]
Gulf Coast braces for back-to-back storms
Aug 24, 2020
Forecasters expect Tropical Storm Marco to make landfall on the Louisiana coast Monday after weakening from hurricane strength on Sunday. Tropical Storm Laura will pass through […]
Unemployment ticks up
Aug 21, 2020
After two weeks of decline, the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week rose to 1.1 million. The U.S. Department of Labor’s report on Thursday […]
Wildfires cover Bay Area in smoke
Aug 20, 2020
Authorities in California ordered thousands of evacuations in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday. More than 40 wildfires in the state have destroyed or damaged […]
UNC–Chapel Hill officials respond to COVID-19 outbreak
Aug 18, 2020
University administrators nationwide have ordered extensive on-campus pandemic precautions, but they could not curb off-campus parties where the coronavirus spreads freely. The University of North Carolina […]
Annual bear-binging webcast underway
Aug 17, 2020
Fans missing the usual packed lineup of live sports in the fall can tune into webcams from Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve for some serious […]
With fall questions looming for school districts across the United States, more parents choose to educate their kids themselves
Aug 16, 2020
As shutdowns and social distancing debates dragged through the summer and COVID-19 flared in the South and West, politicians and educators in Washington, D.C., wrangled over […]
Public school uncertainties
Aug 14, 2020
Michigan education administrators by mid-August usually are well prepared for public school openings right after Labor Day. Not this year. Mike Burde, veteran assistant superintendent for […]
The politics of postage
Aug 13, 2020
WASHINGTON—Public scrutiny of the U.S. Postal Service is reaching new heights as the agency deals with budget problems, partisan attacks, and questions about its handling of […]
The COVID-19 chasm: Viral division
Aug 11, 2020
Jessi Green stood in the middle of hundreds of people gathered at Huntington Beach, Calif., holding a loudspeaker and a Bible, and broke into tears. She […]
COVID-19 complicates ministry to asylum-seekers
Aug 9, 2020
Every Monday for the last several months, single mother Alma Ruth crossed the border between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico. The town is infamous for its […]
Teachers wonder whether to stay or go
Aug 8, 2020
Catherine Good, 58, never dreamed she’d retire from teaching during a global pandemic. “When the whole COVID thing came up, then it was like, OK, is […]
Cleanup begins after Hurricane Isaias
Aug 7, 2020
Thousands of people throughout the Northeast are still without power after Isaias tore along the East Coast from North Carolina to Canada. The storm left nine […]
Lebanon’s aftermath
Aug 6, 2020
LEBANON: France is taking a lead among Western nations, with the United States making tentative (my take) offers of help in the wake of Tuesday’s catastrophic explosion in Beirut. […]
TikTok standoff
Aug 6, 2020
President Donald Trump has recently taken aim at a social media platform whose top three influencers’ ages combined are still less than his own. TikTok, an […]
Ag officials identify some mystery seeds
Aug 5, 2020
Americans in at least 22 states received unsolicited packages of seeds for cabbage, hibiscus, lavender, mint, morning glory, mustard, rose, rosemary, sage, and other plants, according […]
California fires rage on
Aug 4, 2020
Fire officials blame a malfunctioning diesel vehicle for starting a wildfire east of Los Angeles that has consumed more than 42 square miles of brush and […]
Three charged in celebrity Twitter hack
Aug 3, 2020
Prosecutors say a 17-year-old from Florida posted fake tweets to celebrity accounts on July 15 as part of a scam that netted more than $100,000 in […]
Perseverance heads to Mars
Aug 2, 2020
A 4.2-magnitude earthquake didn’t stop the next NASA Mars rover from lifting off on Thursday morning. The car-sized Perseverance craft and its collection of cameras, microphones, […]
COVID-19 sends GDP plummeting
Aug 1, 2020
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday reported a 33 percent annualized drop in the gross domestic product in the second quarter of 2020. That’s triple any […]