About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth’s history, potentially kicking off a massive disruption in the world’s climate. Some scientists have suspected a volcanic winter resulting from the eruption was a big enough shift to wipe out most early humans due to genetic evidence suggesting a steep drop in the human population. But now a cutting-edge study on an archaeological site in northwest Ethiopia once occupied by early modern humans...
The gene-editing method used might ultimately offer a way to remove HIV, experts say.
According to a letter from the Office of the Attorney General of D.C., the Capitals and Wizards are contractually obligated to remain in D.C. until 2047.
City dwellers can reduce mosquito habitat by removing old tires, empty buckets and other items that can collect water.
My daughter has long worn her Star of David necklace, a symbol of the Jewish peoples’ perseverance and courage. But to some students at the elite college she attends, her necklace has come to represent something entirely different. “How can you wear that and support child killers,” fellow students have sneered in the library, the cafeteria and the gym. It’s a refrain that has become all too common on American campuses following Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, and the Israeli government’s...
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A federal judge has rejected an effort by Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration to throw out a lawsuit claiming Virginia is violating an 1870 law by automatically taking away people's voting rights after any felony conviction.
March is recognized as Women’s History Month and on Friday night the Black Springfield COVID-19 Coalition celebrated this observance in the city.
NYPD vehicles line the perimeter of a courthouse. Officials say the man was in the kitchen with his mother. [ more › ]
Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels.
Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs.