Suspicions of looting have driven some residents of an Oregon county to illegally stop unfamiliar drivers at gunpoint, all while much of the county is under an evacuation order as wildfires rage.
A former U.S. Navy fighter pilot spoke this month about what he says was an encounter with a “Tic Tac”-shaped UFO and believes the flying object committed an “act of war.”Retired Cmdr. David Fravor recalled the strange encounter off San Diego 16 years ago in a Sept. 8 podcast with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman.Fravor says…
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is slamming the NFL’s new embrace of social justice activism four years after he started the national anthem protests that seemingly got him blackballed from the league. Mr. Kaepernick criticized the NFL’s new messaging as “propaganda,” citing the fact that his former teammate and fellow activist Eric Reid…
Show captionJoe Biden has pledged to recommit the US to climate efforts, potentially encouraging deeper action from the rest of the world. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/APClimate countdownDemocrat to stress climate change and pitch green investmentTrump to speak at event for California national guardUS politics – live coverageMon 14 Sep 2020 10.28 EDTRecord-setting wildfires in the western…
The death toll from dozens of wildfires burning along the West Coast has grown to least 35, as gusty winds on Monday threatened to fan flames in parts of the region.The wildfires from California to Washington state have burned nearly 5 million acres, nearly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Tens of thousands of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…