Waterbury schools mourn 'tragic' death of 14-year-old Wilby High student killed in Shelton crash
Chloe Ramsubhag, a Waterbury resident and Wilby High School student, was killed Sunday in a crash on Route 8 in Shelton, ...
J&J buys Intra-Cellular in $14.6 billion deal, delving further into central nervous system disorders
Johnson & Johnson will spend more than $14 billion to delve further into the treatment of central nervous system disorders by ...
Sandy Hook families agree on split of $16M from Alex Jones’ bankrupt estate; Infowars sale undecided
Sandy Hook families who won $1.35 billion in defamation judgments from Alex Jones in Texas and Connecticut cases have agreed ...
Supreme Court upholds a North Dakota state House district on an American Indian reservation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a North Dakota state House district on an American Indian reservation, rejecting a challenge by local Republican officials.
When presidents would send handwritten lists of their nominees to the Senate, things were a lot different
For positions such as U.S. attorney, assistant secretary of state or director of the Bureau of Land Management, presidents usually submit nominations to the Senate when the Senate is in session. The ...
Firefighting planes are dumping ocean water on the Los Angeles fires − why using saltwater is typically a last resort
Saltwater corrodes firefighting equipment and may harm ecosystems, especially those like the chaparral shrublands around Los Angeles that aren’t normally exposed to seawater. Gardeners know that small ...
Trump’s canal canard obscures a truth: Panama just wants to run its shipping passage without interference from China or the US
Tensions over U.S. control of the Canal Zone came to a peak in 1964 when a group of Panamanian students attempted to raise the Panamanian flag at the high school inside the Canal Zone, a civilian ...
From Myanmar to Gaza, Ukraine to Sudan – 2024 was another grim year, according to our mass atrocity index
(THE CONVERSATION) With major conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia, 1 in 8 people worldwide were exposed to conflict in 2024 – proving another fraught year in terms of human ...
One way Trump could help revive rural America’s economies
The Biden administration’s recent push to build infrastructure and jump-start strategic industries – including through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act and the ...
What the dead, the uncanny and the monstrous tell us about human nature
These fearsome, “other-than-human” beings live on the boundaries of our moral, social and emotional imagination, and they often embody the issues, concerns, hopes and fears that have shaped our lives.
Why does a rocket have to go 25,000 mph to escape Earth?
For example, Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system. It’s so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths. So it requires a very high escape speed: 133,100 mph (about 214,000 kilometers per hour ...
Hegseth's views on women in combat, infidelity and more — in his own words
As author of several books and a former Fox News Channel host, Hegseth has been forced to defend himself against a long ...