Jun. 17—GRAND FORKS — A St. Michael man was sentenced to 32 years in federal prison for his role in two non-fatal shootings and an assault while brandishing a firearm. The sentencing was announced Monday, June 17, through a U.S. Attorney’s Office District of North Dakota press release. Nathaniel Patrick Azure, 21, was involved in […]
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. My parents said the planet is getting too hot for people to live here. They called it climate change. What does that mean? – Joseph, age 12, Boise, Idaho Many […]
Safer and quieter wind power solutions may soon be coming to the roof of an office or apartment building near you. Now that startup Aeromine Technologies has received funding, it can move forward with the commercial rollout of its “motionless” wind energy system this year, as reported by Electrek. When you think of wind turbines, […]
Ukraine has intensified strikes on Russia’s air defenses in Crimea, per reports. The attacks could make Crimea untenable as a military staging ground, one US think tank said. But they’re not a silver bullet to end Russia’s occupation of the region, experts said. Ukraine’s sustained attacks against Russia’s air defenses could make occupied Crimea untenable […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO will assume a greater role in the coordination of arms supplies to Ukraine, the alliance said on Friday, taking over from the U.S. in a bid to safeguard the aid mechanism as NATO-sceptic Donald Trump bids for a second term as U.S. president. “These efforts do not make NATO a party […]
Other states dump trash in New Hampshire at a rate of around 900,000 tons per year, in large part because those neighbors have significantly stricter landfill rules. The Department of Environmental Services says its new regulations – currently in the process of being updated, as required every decade – will be more protective of human […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The share of the euro in foreign exchange holdings tumbled last year at the expense of the dollar and the yen, and further drops are possible whenever Russia becomes free to reduce its own euro stockpile, a fresh report from the European Central Bank showed. The share of the euro among foreign […]
A Reading man was arrested on charges he interfered with the arrest of a suspect by a city police officer at the Pagoda, where a large number of people who illegally rode dirt bikes on public roads had gathered Saturday. Brayan Sanchez-Quinones, 24, of the 2100 block of North 17th Street was committed to Berks […]
By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – China has urged the BRICS bloc of nations to take on greater responsibilities and establish itself as being inclusive to the world, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday, in the wake of Western sanctions and trade restrictions imposed on the country. Many Chinese companies have faced Western sanctions […]
British surveillance drones are reportedly helping search for Gaza hostages as part of the “largest intelligence effort ever conducted by Israel”. A senior Israeli official briefed The New York Times that British and American drones have been able to provide information that Israel’s drones do not collect, without specifying details. The sheer number of American […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man convicted for his role in the stabbing deaths of two Dartmouth College professors has been released from prison. James Parker was 16 at the time of his conviction stemming from the 2001 deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was granted parole in April. Parker’s […]
Dozens of students, donning signature red-and-black ties, were celebrated as they took the next step in their academic journey: attending college. On Sunday afternoon, scholars with the 5000 Role Models of Excellence program committed to colleges and universities, which spanned four states, at an academic signing ceremony at Miami Dade College North Campus. The graduates, […]