A dozen dead whales have washed up on New York and New Jersey beaches since December. It’s part of a years-long trend in whale deaths up and down the east coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is trying to figure out what’s going on...
The best basketball players in the world will descend upon Salt Lake City for NBA All-Star Weekend, all leading up to the main event: the 2023 All-Star Game. Fans can be on the lookout for a new format: For the first time ever, team captains LeBron James...
A teenage girl has been rescued 248 hours after last week’s devastating earthquake in Turkey. 17-year-old Aleyna Olmez was pulled from the rubble in Kahramanmaraş, a southern city near the epicentre. Her uncle tearfully told rescuers “we will never forget you”, as he...
WV Senate OKs intelligent design bill; Florida’s assault on education continues. Two recent bills introduced at the state level could spell trouble for science education. One of them is in West Virginia, where the state Senate has approved a bill that would allow teachers to tell...
In diplomacy, what’s left unsaid often matters more than what’s said. After Chinese President Xi Jinping met the king of Saudi Arabia in December, both nations issued lengthy readouts extolling the burgeoning Saudi-Sino relationship in “all fields.” But in more than...
