Before (June 3, 2019) and after Edenville dam collapse (May 20, 2020) near Midland, Mich. (NASA) Torrential rains early this week proved too much for two major dams upstream of Midland, Michigan, a city of 40,000 people, to handle. On Tuesday, the Edenville dam collapsed while the downstream Sanford dam was overwhelmed, unleashing a gushing,…
Associated Press Published 11:46 p.m. ET April 25, 2020 CLOSESEOUL, South Korea – A train likely belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been parked at his compound on the country’s east coast since last week, satellite imagery showed, amid speculation about his health that has been caused, in part, by a long…
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…