A recent influx of studies has revealed the presence of microplastics in various organs throughout the human body, including the brain and testicles. However, the impact of these minuscule plastic…
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill emancipating enslaved people in Washington, the end of a long struggle. But to ease slaveowners’ pain, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — They were sharing the world stage to discuss a plan to give young people more input in decisions that shape lives. And 26-year-old Daphne Frias, talking…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For decades a small, landless tribe in Northern California has been on a mission to get land, open a casino and tap into the gaming market…
WASHINGTON — The current health care system for children is in crisis, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that lays out a road map for…
Global support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) continues to grow, with Indonesia, Sierra Leone and the Solomon Islands ratifying the landmark agreement at a high-level…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II, spent more than a…
ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada’s massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that’s on a low fat,…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful…
Laura Paddison CNN — Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse,…