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, […]
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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 […]
A new study concludes that conserving old-growth tropical rainforest is ‘highly recommended’ to prevent new outbreaks of viral and parasitic mosquito-borne diseases.
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MEXICO CITY — The U.S. State Department expanded its travel advisories Tuesday to warn of dangers in parts of Mexico, like the Caribbean coast, that previously hadn’t been covered by such alerts. The new travel advisory doesn’t mention the Caribbean resorts of Cancun or Playa del Carmen by name, but […]