New Jersey health officials are warning travelers at Newark Liberty International Airport that they may have been exposed to the measles virus. The state Department of Health says a young child carrying the disease arrived in the airport Monday from Brussels and later departed for Memphis. Health officials warn people… Read More
Students walkout to protest school safety
Tens of thousands of young people across the U.S. walked out of school to demand action on school safety Wednesday in one of the biggest student protests in decades. Braving snow in New England and threats of school discipline in places like Georgia and Ohio, they carried signs and bowed… Read More
Dog dies after flight attendant does…WHAT!?
A dog died on a United Airlines plane after a flight attendant ordered its owner to put the animal in the plane’s overhead bin. United said Tuesday that it took full responsibility for the incident on the Monday night flight from Houston to New York. In a statement, United called… Read More
Trump inspects border wall prototypes (Here’s what he thought… )
President Donald Trump eagerly inspected eight towering prototypes for his long-sought wall at the U.S.-Mexico border and accused California of putting “the entire nation at risk” by refusing to take tough action against illegal immigration. Trump, making his first trip to California as president, said Tuesday he preferred a fully… Read More
3 suspects in Minnesota mosque bombing face charges
Three Illinois men are accused of bombing a mosque in suburban Minneapolis in an attempt to scare Muslims into leaving the United States, authorities said. The men allegedly traveled some 500 miles (805 kilometers) from a rural farming community to carry out the Aug. 5 attack, which caused a damaging… Read More
OUTRAGE! Pennsylvania special election results are rigged!?
A razor’s edge separated Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone early Wednesday in their closely watched special election in Pennsylvania — and rumors have swirled on social media that the results may have been rigged. But is there any truth to the allegations? Lamb claimed victory before exuberant supporters… Read More
World famous physicist Stephen Hawking dead at age 76
In his final years, the only thing connecting the brilliant physicist to the outside world was a couple of inches of frayed nerve in his cheek. As slowly as a word per minute, Stephen Hawking used the twitching of the muscle under his right eye to grind out his thoughts… Read More
Students walkout across the US to protest school safety
From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month’s massacre of 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In nearly 3,000 protests nationwide, students… Read More
Thousands facing power outages after 3rd nor’easter
Storm cleanup and the restoration of power to the tens of thousands of residents and businesses without electricity was the focus Wednesday, one day after a fierce nor’easter lashed the Northeast with hurricane-force winds and heavy snow. With spring tantalizingly close after the switch to daylight saving time, many were… Read More
Revealed! Texas bomb victims’ families knew each other
Families of two people killed by package bombs left on their doorsteps in Austin knew each other and were connected through local activism in the black community, a civic leader said Tuesday. But it was not clear how they might be tied to a third household where a package bomb… Read More