Intense heat dome has swallowed a large area and is forecast to expand over the next week High temperatures Friday, as forecast by the National Weather Service. (Pivotal Weather) Andrew FreedmanEditor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. July 13 at 12:56 PM An intense and expanding heat wave is baking the…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) suggested Sunday that former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III may be invited to testify before his panel, although Graham did not give any details on the timing of any potential invitation.Graham’s statement came one day after Mueller defended his office’s prosecution of Roger Stone, President Trump’s…

California's two largest school districts announced Monday that they would not be opening its facilities to students in the fall but will resume classes online.In a letter to parents, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner said the nation’s second-largest school district had decided to resume online classes due to a resurgence of the novel coronavirus. “We…

Black smoke rose as flames engulfed the Shahid Tondgooyan petrochemical plant in the Khuzestan province of Iran late Sunday afternoon.Hours earlier, more than 500 miles away, detonations rocked the basement of an old, nondescript home in a northern pocket of Tehran. The two-story dwelling was said to have housed at least 30 gas cylinders that…

A study looks at the negative impact of stereotyping on personal motivation.It may be that the United States is confronting its long history of racism and discrimination as never before. For many people in the U.S., there is a growing recognition that people of color and those belonging to marginalized groups are confronted on a…