Demonstrators and police clashed outside Argentina’s Congress on Wednesday as senators were discussing a controversial reform package that proposes to privatize several state entities in a move slammed as neoliberal by critics. Hooded demonstrators hurled stones and incendiary devices at officers in Buenos Aires, while police deployed batons and tear gas. Several cars went up […]
WASHINGTON — Amid growing protests on college campuses by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, the White House is planning for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to have a minimal presence for a traditional rite of spring: delivering commencement addresses. Biden is scheduled to speak at Morehouse College and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point […]
The sun put on quite the show this morning (April 23), blasting out not one, not two, but four solar flares in near-perfect harmony. And NASA’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught it on camera. Solar flares are explosions from the sun’s surface that emit intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation. They occur when magnetic energy […]
Republican divisions over military support for Ukraine were long simmering. Now, ahead of Saturday’s extraordinary vote in Congress on a foreign aid package, they have erupted into open warfare – a conflict that the vote itself is unlikely to contain. Related: US House pushes ahead with $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Legislature devolved into shouts of “Shame! Shame!” on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers quickly shut down discussion on a proposed repeal of the state’s newly revived 1864 law that criminalizes abortion throughout pregnancy unless a woman’s life is at risk. The state Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for enforcement […]
WASHINGTON – The combination of a cold front draped across the mid-Atlantic and dry relative humidity values helped dozens of fires explode during a wildfire outbreak on Wednesday. Wildfires were reported from Maryland to North Carolina, with the greatest concentration appearing to be in West Virginia and Virginia. The eruption of flames came just hours […]
Two outbursts from the sun occurred as widespread cellphone outages were reported throughout the United States on Thursday (Feb. 22). Two powerful solar flares erupted from the sun on the evening of Wednesday (Feb. 21) and during the early morning of Thursday (Feb. 22). An X1.8-class flare occurred at 6:07 p.m. ET (2307 GMT) on […]
A protester has died as thousands of Indian farmers resumed their march to New Delhi after talks with the government failed to end an impasse over their demands for guaranteed crop prices. The farmers began their protest march last week but were stopped some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the capital as police fired rounds […]
An incendiary spectacle at a Boston gas station was captured on video earlier this week, when a white SUV slammed into a standing pump and ignited a huge fireball. Incredibly, there were no injuries. The station’s surveillance cameras show a scene out of a cartoon: The young woman driving a white Acura MDX pulls into […]
Emotions ran high among House Republicans on Tuesday following a double defeat on Homeland Security Secretay Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment and an aid package for Israel. The vote on Mayorkas ended in a 215-215 tie after three members of the House GOP — Reps. Ken Buck, Colo., Mike Gallagher, Wisc., and Tom McClintock, Calif. — voted against […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday blasted Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, over the company’s content moderation policies, specifically regarding children and teenagers, which was the subject of a Senate Judiciary Hearing Committee hearing. “Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so, but you have […]
In dramatic new footage, a chameleon erupts in stunning colors while in the throes of death. Using time-lapse photography, researchers captured the colorful last few hours of the reptile’s short life — and the remarkable changes that took place in that time. “In her last moments, her skin erupts with color, as if uttering her […]