Month: November 2019

Society for Science & the Public/YouTube(WASHINGTON) —  At a national science and engineering competition for middle school students, girls took home all five top awards for the first time this year. The Broadcom MASTERS, or [Read More…]

aijohn784/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) — An 11-year-old boy was shot dead in Philadelphia on Monday, becoming the latest in a string of children to be shot in the city. The 11-year-old, whose name was not released, was shot [Read More…]

PeskyMonkey/iStock(NEW YORK) — A string of viral tweets blasting Apple’s new credit card for alleged gender discrimination has led to an investigation from New York’s Department of Financial Services. The tech giant’s credit card, launched [Read More…]

YinYang/iStock(WASHINGTON) — More than 700,000 young immigrants, who came of age in America but have lacked permanent legal status, look to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold a program protecting them from deportation [Read More…]

Atlanta Police Department(ATLANTA) — Music and prayer filled Georgia’s Clark Atlanta University campus Sunday night as grieving students came together to remember slain classmate Alexis Crawford, allegedly killed by her roommate and the roommate’s boyfriend. [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — An early season arctic cold front is barreling through the Midwest Monday morning and is expected to reach the Gulf Coast and the East Coast on Tuesday. Ahead of that cold [Read More…]

TomasSereda/iStock(MOSCOW) — A prominent Russian Napoleon scholar has confessed to murdering and dismembering his young lover and former student after he was found in a canal in St. Petersburg with a rucksack containing her severed [Read More…]

Jorge Villalba/iStock(COCOA BEACH, Fla.) — SpaceX launched 60 more satellites Monday as part of CEO Elon Musk’s “Starlink” mission to bring high-speed internet to large, remote swaths of the world. “Enabled by a constellation of [Read More…]

NASA(NEW YORK) — Mercury will pass in front of the sun on Monday, appearing as a dark spot moving across the star’s bright surface. The cosmic event, which is called a transit, will last for [Read More…]

MicroStockHub/iStock(HARDY, Va.) — A former Marine is wanted in the murder of his mother’s boyfriend. Rodney Brown, 54, was shot and killed on Saturday just before noon at his home in Hardy, Va., about 9 [Read More…]