Experts link climate change to a wide, and alarming, range of changes on Earth, from melting polar ice, to mega-hurricanes, to wild fires ferocious enough to threaten a major American city. But global warming is also making itself felt on a smaller scale, like your dinner plate. That’s because rising global temperatures […]
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Ex-cop Michael Slager gets 20 years for killing unarmed man
Last Updated Dec 7, 2017 1:04 PM EST CHARLESTON, S.C. – A white former South Carolina officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for fatally shooting an unarmed black motorist in the back in 2015, wrapping up a case that became a rallying cry for the Black […]
How a blind runner got his independence back
Our ongoing series “A More Perfect Union” aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment we learn about the growing effort to train dogs not just to be guides, but also to be athletes. One stride at a time, […]
Dax Shepard on his “offbeat” new Christmas movie
It has been two years since NBC’s hit drama “Parenthood” ended, but it appears Dax Shepard still can’t escape his character, Crosby, as he also attempts to find time to balance his career, family and two kids, all with a smile on his face. Like his wife, Kristen Bell, the […]
Why the end may be near for bitcoin — but just maybe
The rise has been breathless: From a recent low of $3,226 on Sept.14, bitcoin pushed past $17,000 on Thursday, an incredible gain of more than 400 percent in less than three months. Is this a massive bubble? The consensus seems to be “yes — but the technology will last” with […]
Police: Shooter, 2 students dead in N.M. high school shooting
Last Updated Dec 7, 2017 5:38 PM EST AZTEC, N.M. – Students hid in their classrooms, some behind locked doors, as a suspect opened fire Thursday inside a New Mexico high school, killing two classmates before ending up dead. Authorities and other officials in the small town of Aztec near the […]
How dangerous is breathing smoke from wildfires?
Richard E. Peltier is an associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst Wildfires once again are raging in California – this time in the Los Angeles area, where five fires are currently burning. The fast-moving Thomas fire alone has burned more than 65,000 acres in three days. […]
Silicon Valley housing crisis leaves teacher sleeping in car
The U.S. homeless population is growing for the first time since the end of the Great Recession in 2010. A one-night government census earlier this year counted nearly 554,000 homeless people, up nearly one percent from 2016. In Silicon Valley, the high cost of housing is fueling a local homelessness […]
Experts scramble as long-dormant volcano shows increased activity
ORAEFI, Iceland – At the summit of one of Iceland‘s most dangerous volcanoes, a 72-foot depression in the snow is the only visible sign of an alarming development. The Oraefajokull volcano, dormant since its last eruption in 1727-1728, has seen a recent increase in seismic activity and geothermal water leakage […]
Bitcoin mining company suffers possible hack worth millions
A bitcoin mining company in Slovenia said it had been hacked for the possible theft of tens of millions of dollars. As the price of the virtual currency soared past $17,000, NiceHash, a company that mines bitcoins on behalf of customers, said it is investigating a security breach that may […]