In recent years, expectant parents have gone to extreme lengths to create splashy, Instagrammable moments to announce the sex of their child. Some of the celebrations, however, have ended in calamity: a 45,000-acre forest fire, a flaming car, a deadly explosion.
A manhunt is underway in Georgia for a convicted rapist and child molester who is serving a life sentence and was released “in error,” the authorities said.
From disposable headphones and plastic cutlery to food scraps and toilet waste, the average airline passenger leaves behind over 3 pounds of garbage, according to one estimate. To get travelers and airlines thinking — and talking — about that rather large pile of trash, a British design firm has refashioned the economy meal tray, replacing plastic with renewable materials such as coffee grounds, banana leaves and coconut wood.
Ahead of an annual LGBTQ festival in Ames, Iowa, members of the City Council decided to liven up a pedestrian crosswalk near the downtown shopping district by painting stripes in colors evoking the gay, nonbinary and transgender pride flags.
Harrison Duran, a biology student at the University of California, Merced, had just been rejected from a summer internship when he received an invitation from a professor to go fossil hunting in a remote area of North Dakota.
The camera panned to the water’s edge on St. Simons Island’s East Beach in Georgia, where a row of short-finned pilot whales writhed, clicked and whistled as their shiny black bodies caught breaking waves in the late afternoon light on Tuesday.
A market withdrawal is voluntary and “occurs when a product has a minor violation that would not be subject to FDA legal action,” according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s website.
Margaret Hunter, who has also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, admitted in U.S. District Court in San Diego that she had conspired with her husband to violate campaign finance law.
The military unit was formed in September 1917 as the United States entered World War I and has since deployed soldiers in World War II, the Korean War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Addressing Morehouse College’s class of 2019, a man who is richer than Oprah Winfrey made a grand gesture straight out of the television mogul’s playbook.
The world watched in December as a 72-year-old funeral director pushed the coffin of President George Bush into a polished Cadillac hearse in Houston. He had done the same before at services for Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, first ladies Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan, and many other well-known figures.
Washington state lawmakers have taken a major step toward offering free or reduced college tuition using funds from businesses there, including Amazon and Microsoft, in a move that is being applauded by policy analysts for its innovation and reach.
After an elementary schoolteacher in Phoenix posted her salary on Facebook in March last year amid a statewide protest for more education funding, she got a lot of calls from the news media, and a lot of hate mail, too.
After an elementary schoolteacher in Phoenix posted her salary on Facebook in March last year amid a statewide protest for more education funding, she got a lot of calls from the media, and a lot of hate mail, too.Uganda New York Times world3 May 2019
After an elementary schoolteacher in Phoenix posted her salary on Facebook in March last year amid a statewide protest for more education funding, she got a lot of calls from the news media, and a lot of hate mail, too.Uganda New York Times entertainment1 May 2019
Almost as quickly as the floodwaters rose in the cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped for more than two weeks in northern Thailand in July, filmmakers and authors raced to tell their story.Uganda New York Times world30 Apr 2019
The identities of seven victims, including a 12-year old girl and three relatives of a suspect, discovered in a grisly series of homicides in Sumner County, Tennessee, were released by the state’s Bureau of Investigation on Monday, as multiple agencies struggled to determine a motive.
A former police officer in Florida was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting a black man who had been awaiting help on a highway more than three years ago.
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