(Headline USA) University of Maine researchers are trying to produce potatoes that can better withstand warming temperatures as the climate changes.
Warming temperatures and an extended growing season can lead to quality problems and disease, Gregory Porter, a professor of crop ecology and management, told the Bangor Daily News.
“The predictions...
The police-state mentality that has beset school board meetings where parents are arrested and vilified for voicing valid concerns about their children’s education isn’t limited to the disturbing, high-profile incidents in Loudoun County, Virginia.
The unsettling trend has developed nationwide, as evidenced by Attorney General Merrick Garland’s weaponizing the DOJ...
(Headline USA) Actor Matthew McConaughey isn't running for Texas governor after months of publicly flirting with the idea of becoming the latest celebrity candidate.
The Academy Award winner said in a video posted Sunday night that political leadership was not a route he was choosing to take “at this moment.”
McConaughey,...
(Headline USA) Chris Christie is everywhere.
The former New Jersey governor and onetime Republican presidential candidate denounced “conspiracy theorists” during a September appearance at the Ronald Reagan Library in California.
He followed up with a speech this month to influential Republicans in Las Vegas, warning that the party will only succeed...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned Americans on Sunday to "prepare for the worst" in response to the so-called omicron variant of COVID-19.
"You want to be prepared to do anything and everything," he said, according to Reuters.
When NBC News Host Chuck...
(Headline USA) A popular actor steps out onto the street and is brutally reminded that, despite his fame and wealth, places still exist where the color of his skin and sexual orientation put him in danger.
That was the false story that ricocheted around the world after Jussie Smollett, a...
(Headline USA) Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there's no middle ground in Wednesday's showdown over abortion.
The justices can either reaffirm the right to an abortion, which the Supreme Court granted without legislative sanction almost 50 years ago, or wipe it away altogether.
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973...
(Headline USA) Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious diseases expert, criticized Sen. Ted Cruz for saying that Fauci should be investigated for several false statements he made about COVID-19.
He said that the criticism by the Texas Republican was an attack on science itself.
"I should be prosecuted? What happened...
(Headline USA) The World Health Organization on Sunday urged countries around the world not to impose flight bans on southern African nations due to concerns over the so-called omicron COVID-19 variant.
WHO's regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, called on countries to follow "science" and international health regulations in order...
(Headline USA) The name of a newly identified variant of the coronavirus has had some social media users scratching their heads about the World Health Organization’s system for labeling certain versions of the virus.
The WHO chose on Friday to dub the variant, first reported to the agency by scientists...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden sparked headlines again this weekend after appearing in public without a mask, despite his aggressive COVID-19 masking policies.
Biden was reportedly sighted and caught on camera Saturday in Nantucket shopping at Murray’s Toggery Shop without a mask. The news quickly sparked backlash for the president.
Why...
(Associated Press) Federal authorities have taken into custody a 26-year-old man who apparently stowed away in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines fight.
That flight arrived at Miami International Airport from Guatemala on Saturday morning.
The man was in the wheel well area when the flight arrived from Guatemala...