Two-year-old Ashley was challenged by her cousin Evan to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Ashley, like a lot of two year olds, isn’t the biggest fan of cold water but was determined to complete the challenge with the aid of a large pair of goggles. And who better for Ashley to challenge than the two idols of any young girl: Barbie and Dora the Explorer! (as well as her dad, and her mom, and the rest of the family…). Credit: YouTube/Mike Weber
Nearly half of couples haven’t figured out how they will recreate their paychecks in retirement. Talking about it is essential.
The Israeli army said Saturday troops had killed 10 militants in an ongoing raid around Nur Shams, a refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. The army said that over more than 40 hours it had "eliminated 10 terrorists" and made eight arrests around Nur Shams.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Palestinians to unite amid Israel's war in Gaza following hours-long talks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul on Saturday, his office said. "Even if only I, Tayyip Erdogan, remain, I will continue as long as God gives me my life, to defend the Palestinian struggle and to be the voice of the oppressed Palestinian people," the president said Wednesday when he announced Haniyeh's visit.
With a 19-gun cannon salute and a religious ceremony Kenya on Saturday paid a military tribute to its army chief who died in a helicopter accident this week.Ogolla and nine other military officials died on Thursday when their helicopter went down in a remote region in the west of the country, just short of a year since his appointment as armed forces head by Ruto.
This week, encounter the largest marine reptile ever to roam the seas, see a rainbow-like phenomenon on another planet, marvel at underwater bees, and more.
Ukraine and Russia both accused each other of deadly strikes on civilians Saturday, as US lawmakers prepared to vote on a $61 billion aid package Kyiv hopes will boost its flagging war effort.Ukraine has in recent months pleaded for more air defences from its Western allies as it struggles to fend off a surge in deadly attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Fed Chair Jay Powell and other Fed officials struck a more hawkish stance this past week, setting off a new debate across Wall Street about how the rest of 2024 could play out.
A US sailor who served in Japan was found guilty on Friday at a general court martial for attempted espionage, failure to obey a lawful order and attempted violation of a lawful general order.
Despite recent episodes of warm weather, a few rounds of frosts and freezes are ahead for parts of the eastern half of the country into the last full week of April. AccuWeather meteorologists warn that temperatures can get low enough in this region to threaten vegetation. The blasts of chilly air will come in two rounds, first late in the weekend and during the early part of the new workweek, and then again midweek, as cold fronts sweep south from Canada. Temperatures for a few mornings can drop
José Tomás Lainez, 54, was hiking in El Salvador on March 24 in the San Vicente area when he went missing. His family is desperate to bring him home.
BAGSVAERD, Denmark — Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen has a problem: Too many people want what he’s selling. Jorgensen is CEO of Novo Nordisk, a Danish drugmaker. Even if the company isn’t quite a household name, the TV jingle for its bestselling drug — “Oh-oh-ohhh-Ozempic!” — might ring in your ears. Across the United States, Novo Nordisk’s diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, have soared to celebrity status and helped make the company Europe’s most valuable public firm. It can’t make e
The drone combat in Ukraine that is transforming modern warfare has begun taking a deadly toll on one of the most powerful symbols of American military might — the tank — and threatening to rewrite how it will be used in future conflicts. Over the past two months, Russian forces have taken out five of the 31 American-made M1 Abrams tanks that the Pentagon sent to Ukraine last fall, a senior U.S. official said. At least another three have been moderately damaged since the tanks were sent to front
WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, Israel has rehearsed, time and again, bombing and missile campaigns that would take out Iran’s nuclear production capability, much of it based around the city of Isfahan and the Natanz nuclear enrichment complex 75 miles to the north. That is not what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war Cabinet chose to do in the predawn hours of Friday, and in interviews, analysts and nuclear experts said the decision was telling. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from
An Iranian attack on an Israeli desert air base last week as part of Tehran's unprecedented assault on the country damaged a taxiway, a satellite image analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday shows. The overall damage done to Nevatim air base in southern Israel was minor despite Iran launching hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
An electrical engineer explains how smoke detectors work, and how to reduce the chances of a false positive.
Views on death and the afterlife vary from person to person and culture to culture. This course gives US Air Force cadets a broad perspective on mortality and its effects on people and society.
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in life.
Microglia, immune cells disguised as brain cells, are known as the janitors of the brain. Dialing up their usual duties just enough could provide an avenue to treat neurodegenerative disease.
The Senate voted late Friday to reauthorize a key surveillance authority, avoiding a lapse in the controversial program.
Sonny Bharadia and Erik Heard are serving life sentences in Georgia for different crimes. Both say Sterling Flint wrongly incriminated them.
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