A hiker who fell in a creek in the Yosemite National Park was winched to safety by a helicopter on May 28. The hiker plunged into the creek at the base of the Upper Yosemite Fall and was pulled around 100ft downstream by the rapids, according to the National Park Service. The hiker was treated for hypothermia after being rescued by park rangers. Credit: Yosemite National Park/Facebook
The world is not doing enough to protect coral reefs, the United Nations’ special envoy for the ocean said Tuesday in defense of the marine ecosystems that protect biodiversity, sustain underwater life and produce some of the oxygen we breathe. In an interview with The Associated Press on the sidelines of an international ocean conference in Greece, Peter Thomson suggested that all significant coral reefs should be included in marine protected areas under what is known as the “30x30” initiative — a plan to designate 30% of the world’s land and ocean areas as protected areas by 2030. Top reef scientists on Monday announced that coral reefs are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time — and the second time in just 10 years – as a result of warming oceans amid human-caused climate change.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that it will likely take longer to cut rates, saying it will take 'longer than expected' to achieve the confidence needed to get inflation down to the central bank’s 2% target.
Supreme Court justices grappled with limits on an obstruction charge filed in Jan. 6 cases because of concerns it could target peaceful protests.
Brussels authorities set off a political firestorm Tuesday by ordering the shutdown of a hard-right political gathering, in a move denounced by several European leaders including Belgium's own prime minister as an assault on free speech.But Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo slammed the move as "unacceptable" and said the Belgian constitution guaranteed freedom of speech.
Tesla stock slipped again on Tuesday, with shares now down nearly 9% since yesterday after the company announced a “more than 10%” staff reduction.
India's election will last six weeks after a campaign that has sprawled across India — and into the United States as well.
Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from a respiratory ailment commonly known as “black lung” disease, the Labor Department said Tuesday as it issued a new federal rule on miners' safety. The increased drilling generates deadly silica dust and has caused severe forms of pneumoconiosis, better known as black lung disease, even among younger miners, some in their 30s and 40s.
Donald Trump's media group said Tuesday it will launch a streaming television platform, but its shares continued to tumble on Wall Street.After a winning debut on Wall Street last month, Trump Media and Technology Group shares have suffered a bruising retreat, denting the Republican candidate's wealth.
Some architects believe virtual reality will lead to more efficient and effective design. Others see it as little more than a gimmick.
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife disapproved of their teenage daughter's boyfriend, who secretly recorded an incident of him allegedly physically and verbally assaulting the girl over a video chat, according to an affidavit filed by prosecutors. Small and his wife LaQuetta, Atlantic City's superintendent of schools, were charged Monday with child endangerment and assault regarding interactions in December and January with their daughter, who is now 16.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers on Tuesday that President Joe Biden has shown no signs of cognitive impairment while defending Biden's ability to serve as commander in chief. Garland, appearing before a House committee overseeing funding for the Justice Department, was answering questions on the report from special counsel Robert Hur about Biden’s handling of classified material. Hur's report concluded in no criminal charges yet made some observations about Biden's mental state that infuriated the Democratic president and his aides.
The University of Southern California has canceled a commencement speech by its 2024 valedictorian, a Muslim student who has expressed support for Palestinians, citing “substantial" security risks for the event that draws 65,000 people to campus. “The intensity of feelings, fueled by both social media and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, has grown to include many voices outside of USC and has escalated to the point of creating substantial risks relating to security and disruption at commencement," Guzman wrote.
Virginia Foxx, the Republican member of Congress from North Carolina, has spent the past few months giving elite schools a hard time. As the chair of the House committee on education, she oversaw a tense hearing in December that spurred the resignations of the presidents of University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. She has led an investigation of a half-dozen institutions for their handling of antisemitism claims. She has subpoenaed internal documents, and called Jewish students to test
WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Monday urged people whose routes were blocked by pro-Palestinian protesters to “take matters into your own hands” and confront the offenders, endorsing the use of physical force against peaceful demonstrators. In a series of social media posts after protesters shut down traffic in cities across the country including major roads in Oakland, California, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and near O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Cotton called t
WASHINGTON — In January 2018, when she first saw reports that her husband had paid off a porn actor, Melania Trump was furious. She jetted off to Palm Beach, Florida, leaving the president to languish in Washington. She eventually returned, only to take a separate car to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address. As a criminal trial against Trump opened Monday, on charges that he had falsified records to cover up that sex scandal involving Stormy Daniels, Melania Trump did not appear. She
19 people have been stricken — including nine who have been hospitalized — after getting fake or mishandled injections in homes and spas, feds warn.
China is fueling the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. by directly subsidizing the manufacturing of materials that are used by traffickers to make the drug outside the country, according to a report released Tuesday by a special House committee focused on countering the Chinese government. Committee investigators said they accessed a government website that revealed tax rebates for the production of specific fentanyl precursors as well as other synthetic drugs as long as those companies sell them outside of China. “Through its actions, as our report has revealed, the Chinese Communist Party is telling us that it wants more fentanyl entering our country,” said Rep. Mike Gallagher, the Republican chairman of the special House committee.
A divided US Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case that could lead to the dismissal of some of the charges filed against former president Donald Trump and hundreds of his supporters who took part in the January 2021 attack on the Capitol.Several of the conservative justices on the nation's highest court appeared to be skeptical on Tuesday of the filing of obstruction charges against Trump and other participants in the assault on the Capitol.
Counterfeit Botox is being investigated by the CDC and FDA following reports of botulism caused by injections in multiple states.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador on Tuesday in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito. Venezuela also “fully supports” Mexico's request to have the United Nations suspend Ecuador from the world body, Maduro said during a virtual meeting of the leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
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