The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has praised European countries welcoming people fleeing the war in Ukraine, whose numbers now surpass two million. “The response by Europe has been remarkable,” Filippo…
The Department of Defense will permanently close a World War II-era bulk fuel storage facility in Hawaii that leaked petroleum into the local drinking water supply last year, Defense Secretary…
The Senate on Monday night passed legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime, sending the bill to President Biden’s desk. “After more than 200 failed attempts to outlaw lynching,…
In 1938, a Ukrainian-born grandmother created one of art's biggest shocks – but it was attributed to the US painter Jackson Pollock, writes Kelly Grovier. This is the way the…
Scientists tested 3 common houseplants – Peace lily, Corn plant and fern arum All three plants removed 50% of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from a test chamber Equivalent of 3 plants…
One of many dark aspects of the plague of racial terror lynchings that swept the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries was that memorabilia of the murders was…
LONDON (Reuters) -Police detained more than 4,300 people on Sunday at Russia-wide protests against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to an independent protest monitoring group. Thousands of protesters…
ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen’s Houthi movement has signed an agreement with the United Nations to deal with a decaying oil tanker threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil…
NUREMBERG, Germany (AP) — When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, a Syrian student in the city of Kharkiv joined the exodus of people fleeing the onslaught. It was the…
Many scientists worry that flashy efforts to clean plastic from the ocean do more harm than good. Last month, a group of marine biologists noticed something fishy in a video…