By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Middle and high school students across the United States are taking ownership of their history educations through a nonprofit that encourages young people to rigorously examine the past. National History Day has been championing historical research projects in secondary education for 50 years now. But
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — It’s a popular notion that men eat more meat than women. Now, new research says it’s true around the world. A study published this week in Nature Scientific Reports surveyed more than 28,000 people across four continents. The researchers say it’s true across cultures, and the gap
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruling means the abortion pill mifepristone remains available in the United States, even through the mail. The court said Thursday that anti-abortion doctors didn’t have the right to sue the Food and Drug Administration over the drug’s safety or the changes that
Continue ReadingBy CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Associated Press BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A power company in Puerto Rico announced Thursday that it has restored electricity to most areas affected by a massive outage that hit the U.S. territory the previous day. The outage left over 340,000 customers in the capital, San Juan, and neighboring municipalities without
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova, Christian Edwards and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War, will stand trial in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg after prosecutors formally accused him of spying for the CIA. The Russian Prosecutor General’s office said Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Bishop and Jose Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A 43-year-old American man died after he and another US national were electrocuted while in a jacuzzi at a complex of private condominiums in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, authorities said. The death of the man and injuries to another person were “due to a possible electric discharge
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously to preserve access to the drug most commonly used in medication abortion. The nine justices found that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone and the FDA’s subsequent actions to ease restrictions on getting
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — A remote Australian community has taken revenge on a massive saltwater crocodile by eating the 3.6-meter (11.8-foot) beast blamed for devouring pets and chasing children. On Wednesday, police in the town of Bulla in Australia’s Northern Territory shot the crocodile after deeming it a “significant risk to the community.”
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Machinery Partner ranked the states where manufacturing companies are spending the most on equipment, using 2021 Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
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Stacker analyzed archives and studies and conducted interviews to find out how LGBTQ+ bars are evolving to meet the needs of queer communities today.
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A watchdog report says a Minnesota state agency’s inadequate oversight of a federal program that was meant to provide food to kids created the opportunities that led to the theft of $250 million in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases. The Office of the
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a man who wants to trademark the suggestive phrase “Trump too small.” The justices upheld the government’s decision to deny a trademark to Steve Elster, a California man seeking exclusive use of the phrase on T-shirts and potentially other merchandise.
Continue ReadingBY SALAR SALIM and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A team of 32 firefighters in northern Iraq is battling to put out a massive fire, a day after it broke out at an oil refinery, with more than a dozen of them injured while tackling the blaze, local officials said. The fire
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, David Wright and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and former President Trump held competing fundraisers in London on Wednesday, sources told CNN, amid an intensifying race for campaign cash and signs that the former president is gaining some financial ground. Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, hosted Biden’s event, while actress
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Starbucks in a labor dispute over seven employees who were fired after they attempted to unionize one of the coffee chain’s stores in Memphis. The decision could make it harder for the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily halt
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. The nine justices ruled that abortion
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims in Mecca in Saudi Arabia are circling the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, as they prepare for the official start of the Hajj. The pilgrimage is one of the five pillars of Islam. The area around the Grand Mosque in Mecca, where the Kaaba
Continue ReadingBy Susan Griffin, CNN (CNN) — Not so long ago, seeing a dermatologist was only deemed necessary if you had skin problems or possessed a famous face to be pored over in magazines or on the big screen. Not anymore. Whether it’s due to the rise of social media or celebrity culture, the past decade
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a political activist’s attempt to trademark the phrase “Trump Too Small,” saying the federal trademark office did not violate the First Amendment when it declined to register the mark. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion for a unanimous court.
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Group of Seven leaders have reached an agreement to loan money to Ukraine backed by the profits from frozen Russian investments, a senior administration official confirmed Thursday. The United States and its G7 contemporaries have placed a high value on showing their support for Ukraine during
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