VIRAL MOMENT: House Democrat closes prayer: “AMEN AND A-WOMAN”
Officials in Rio Grande do Sul state say more than 80,000 have been displaced by record water levels Seventy-five people are now known to have died in the flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, while more than 100 people remain missing, local authorities said on Sunday. The state’s civil defence authority said…
Locally acquired malaria has been nonexistent in the U.S. for the last 20 years. But five such cases have recently been diagnosed — four in Florida and one in Texas — the only two states that have released genetically engineered mosquitoes. Story at a glance: Genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes created by biotechnology company Oxitec have…
Police say the suspect is a 24-year-old Afghanistan national who has been apprehended at the scene of the incident, which the authorities believe was intentional. At least 28 people have been injured in Munich after a car drove into a crowd of demonstrators near the city’s centre, police said. The driver, identified as a 24-year-old…
Germany nationalized Uniper, its largest utility company and importer of natural gas, on Sept. 21, in a move to keep its domestic energy industry afloat and to avert a collapse of the energy sector. The government in Berlin had earlier bailed out its largest gas importer in July with a $14.95 billion rescue loan, in…
After months of rapt attention focusing on the thousands of North Koreans battling alongside Moscow’s troops close to Russia’s border with Ukraine, Pyongyang’s fighters appear to have vanished. It has been roughly three weeks since Ukraine detected North Korean soldiers being involved in Russia’s attempts to push Kyiv’s forces from Kursk, said Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko,…
Schools illegally used racial preferences for students The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to block affirmative action in two closely watched lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC). The cases, initially brought by a coalition of students, prospective applicants and their parents in 2014, challenged the universities’ use of racial preferences during the…