Most people know earthworms wiggle to the surface after a rainstorm, but a recent downpour in New Jersey was followed by a bizarre ‘wormnado’ that scientists still haven’t puzzled out. A Hoboken woman spied hundreds of worms in a massive spiral on the sidewalk Thursday afternoon. The creepy crawlers weren’t […]
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So much rides on the Washington Football Team’s rebranding “journey” that Jason Wright, the president of the NFL franchise, announced last week that 15,000 suggestions that the club has received from 60 countries and all 50 US states were not quite enough. The only decision the WFT has settled on, […]
All Americans are finally more willing to accept COVID-19 vaccine, with hesitancy falling in all groups, based on race, gender, political party and religion, new data shows. In March, 62 percent of Americans overall had been or soon would be vaccinated. That included about 64 percent of white people had […]
The Indian Health Service is shifting its vaccine distribution system to target individual hospitals and clinics with high demand for shots and taper supplies to hubs where the majority of eligible patients have received doses By MORGAN LEE Associated Press March 30, 2021, 1:02 AM • 3 min read SANTA […]
Get ready for the full “worm” moon, which will rise Sunday evening, March 28, in the eastern sky. The name likely refers to the earthworms that appear in the soil as the weather gets warmer, inviting hungry birds to feed on them. For millennia, people across the world, including Native […]
In another world, before the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, Georgia would have had to obtain federal approval for new election practices to ensure they did not harm Blacks and other minority voters. And at another time, before the Roberts Court enhanced state […]
Archaeologists have discovered concrete evidence of one of the oldest permanent English settlements in what would become the United States. Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers found fence posts from a fort in St. Mary’s, Maryland, that was founded by Catholics fleeing England in 1634 – less than 15 years after Plymouth. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. relations with its two biggest geo-political rivals are facing severe tests as President Joe Biden tries to assert America’s place in the world and distinguish himself from his predecessor. Airing myriad complaints, the Biden administration took an extraordinarily tough line with China and Russia this past […]