AMSTERDAM — A bus with Spanish license plates and containing gas bottles was found near a concert hall where earlier on Wednesday a rock concert was canceled due to a threat, Rotterdam’s mayor said. Ahmed Aboutaleb told a news conference it wasn’t clear whether the threat and the bus were […]
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Workers covered a statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a black tarp on Wednesday afternoon in a symbol of mourning for the woman who was killed after a white nationalist rally earlier this month. A small crowd cheered as crews covered the statue […]
A State Department science envoy quit Wednesday, citing President Donald Trump’s “attacks on core values of the United States” in a scathing resignation letter that also featured an acrostic poem spelling out “IMPEACH.” Daniel Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley who’d been appointed as a […]
As the violence in Charlottesville has reignited a national debate over monuments dedicated to Confederate-era and other controversial figures, New York City is conducting its own review over “symbols of hate” and possibly taking aim at Christopher Columbus. New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a 90-day […]
ISIS released a propaganda video Tuesday that features a boy who claims he is the American son of a U.S. soldier and moved to Syria with his mother two years ago. The child, who speaks in fluent English with what sounds like an American accent, is identified only as Yousef, […]
Alexa, who? Two of the country’s biggest companies, Google and Walmart, are teaming up to mount a challenge against their common foe — Amazon. Beginning in late September, Walmart shoppers will be able to do their shopping via the Google Home virtual assistant. All they’ll need to do is link […]
Workers covered a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a black tarp on Wednesday afternoon in a symbol of mourning for the woman who was killed after a white nationalist rally earlier this month. A small crowd cheered as crews covered the statue of the Confederate general […]
Arsenic-contaminated groundwater may threaten the health of 50 to 60 million people in Pakistan. This is shown by a study in which data from 1,200 groundwater samples was analyzed and combined with hydrological parameters to generate a hazard map. This reveals for the first time the full extent of the […]