2+ week, 1+ day ago   (280+ words) President Donald Trump said he is creating a U.S. Space Academy to join the nation’s other military service academies — but this one is focused on training officers who will be involved in the nation’s space missions. Trump made the announcement Friday…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (761+ words) Zhao, a 30-something woman living in Beijing, says she lost over $100,000 in May to a romance scammer who claimed to be a researcher working for Microsoft. After initially chatting Zhao up on the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, he asked…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (592+ words) The situation is relatable to anyone who has been in a parent WhatsApp chat: one person says something ridiculous, and everyone else has to react with varying degrees of politeness or directness. Side chats ensue, tensions start to boil. Oreogate…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (651+ words) Daniel Macfarlane is the author of “The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History” and a professor at Western Michigan University’s School of Environment, Geography and Sustainability. The president has said and done many ridiculous things. Because of my personal…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (454+ words) KAMPALA, Uganda — Oyo Nyimba, a tribal monarch in Uganda who ascended his ancient throne as an infant and fascinated world leaders as a boy king, has died. He was 34. The death of the king of Tooro was announced early on…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (184+ words) Heart disease remains the leading killer of people worldwide, and one of the key risk factors driving deaths is elevated levels of cholesterol. In a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers report that a gene-editing…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (981+ words) Dozens of dishes growing green mold. Live maggots and flies. Cockroaches creeping near trashcans. The complaint to the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, alleges that the airline catering company, Flying Food Group, exposed workers to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (378+ words) Under President Donald Trump, the Transportation Security Administration is seeking to replace federal TSA screeners with private contractors in more airport security lines. Twenty US airports already use private screeners through the TSA’s Screening Partnership Program, or SPP, which launched…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (306+ words) Chinese engineers are zeroing in on one of the loftiest goals in applied robotics: fully automated cooking. According to CD, the basic cooking robot went through two live cooking demonstrations, stir-frying tofu as well as pork and green peppers. Per…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (521+ words) WASHINGTON — President Trump announced the formation of a new military Space Academy during a Friday visit to Houston — before calling up astronauts aboard the International Space Station, with one crew member informing the president his mustache is “great in microgravity....