Climate Change is making people angrier online
Climate change is making us angrier online. A lot angrier. Hateful comments spike on social media when temperatures rise above 30 degrees … Keep Reading
People wait in line to receive the monkeypox vaccine before the opening of a new mass vaccination site at the Bushwick Education Campus in Brooklyn on July 17, 2022, in New York City. (Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)
For CDC, monkeypox prevention focus remains on vaccines
WASHINGTON — As the Biden administration scrambles to get a handle on the rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak, its latest focus is getting … Keep Reading
Debris from monsoonal rain immobilized sixty cars, belonging to visitors and park staff, in Death Valley National Park at the Inn at Death Valley on Aug. 5, 2022. (National Park Service/TNS)
Risk of catastrophic California ‘megaflood’ has doubled due to global warming, researchers say
LOS ANGELES — Even today, as California struggles with severe drought, global warming has doubled the likelihood that weather conditions will unleash … Keep Reading
Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 28, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images/TNS)
Biden names Judge Ketanji Jackson to Supreme Court in historic pick
WASHINGTON — President Biden has selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, a history-making choice that would make … Keep Reading
Texas State representatives and religious leaders prepare to deliver a petition to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer calling for the passage of the For The People Act and restoring the Voting Rights Act, at the U.S. Supreme Court last year. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/TNS)
Supreme Court signals few map changes before midterms
WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court order that allowed Alabama to use its new congressional map for the 2022 election has ominous signs … Keep Reading
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer greets U.S. President Joe Biden in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (Yuri Gripas/Pool/Abaca Press/TNS)
Biden vows to appoint a Black woman to Supreme Court as Breyer makes retirement official
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden praised Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who made his retirement official at the White House on … Keep Reading
California State University is poised to permanently drop SAT and ACT testing requirement for admission. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
California State strongly indicates it will permanently scrap SAT, ACT admission requirement
California State University trustees strongly indicated Wednesday they will permanently scrap SAT and ACT testing requirements for admission — a move that … Keep Reading
There's no such thing as safe alcohol consumption, a University of Oxford study says. (Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
No such thing as safe alcohol consumption, study says
A new study from the University of Oxford concluded that drinking alcohol had affected the brain’s gray matter area where “important bits … Keep Reading
The Duke of Edinburgh talks to Aboriginal performers after watching a culture show at Tjapukai Aboriginal Culture Park, Cairns, Queensland, Australia on March 1, 2002. Prince Philip died on April 9, 2021 at age 99. (Fiona Hanson/PA Photos/Abaca Press/TNS)
Some Indigenous Australians to get $55,000 in reparations plan
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia will give one-off cash payments to Indigenous “Stolen Generations” survivors who were forcibly removed from their families as … Keep Reading
Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the "Neutral Ground" premiere during the 2021 Tribeca Festival at Pier 76 on June 19, 2021 in New York City. (Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival/TNS)
Howard-bound Nikole Hannah-Jones plans to ‘even the playing field’ for HBCUs
Home is where the heart is, and Nikole Hannah-Jones was eager to return home to her alma mater, the University of North … Keep Reading