Month: August 2018

Museums Victoria(NEW YORK) — A teacher and fossil enthusiast found a giant set of prehistoric shark teeth estimated to be about 25 million years old at a beach in Australia. Philip Mullaly found the set [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Two moms whose genius idea was born beside a kiddie pool are now changing the game with an innovative swimsuit design that makes bathroom breaks a breeze. In 2014, Jill Slater and [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — California Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday night declared a state of emergency for two counties near Los Angeles as a nearby fire spread to cover more than 10,000 acres. The Holy Fire, [Read More…]

Andrew Shurtleff-Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A year after Heather Heyer was killed at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, her mother, Susan Bro, has turned to activism instead of “dwelling in hate or anger.” [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Heavy rains in the southeast of France caused flash flooding and led to the evacuation of 1,600 people in the Ardèche, Gard and Drôme regions for precautionary measures Thursday. In the Gard [Read More…]

KATU(VANCOUVER), Wash) — The 16-year-old girl who said her friend pushed her off a bridge into a river spoke out Thursday from a hospital in Vancouver, Washington. Jordan Holgerson suffered five broken ribs and lung [Read More…]

ABC News(STANFORD, Calif.) — The Stanford swimmer whose light sentence after a sexual assault conviction had both his appeal and request for a new trial denied. The latest legal step in the controversial case of [Read More…]

Taos County Sheriffs Office(TAOS COUNTY, N.M.) — Investigators in New Mexico are working to identify remains that were found on the squalid campgrounds where police found 11 children living with five adults. “The remains are [Read More…]

ABC News(SAADA, Yemen) — An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Thursday morning killed at least 50 people including dozens of children traveling on a bus in the country’s Saada Province, local health [Read More…]

Cody Wilson has been called “one of the most dangerous people on the Internet.” For years, Wilson has fought to make sure anyone should be able to download the files to make a gun at [Read More…]

NOAA(NEW YORK) — There’s a good chance that conditions in the sea and atmosphere will produce a less active Atlantic hurricane season this year, according to a new forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [Read More…]

Paco Freire/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(ALGECIRAS, Spain) — The migrant rescue ship Open Arms arrived in the Spanish port of Algericas Thursday morning carrying 87 people who had been rescued off the coast of Libya [Read More…]

ADL(NEW YORK) — Hate and white supremacist propaganda have been at a high level in the year since the streets of Charlottesville erupted in deadly violence, according to the Anti-Defamation League. On Thursday, the ADL [Read More…]