While the term "social distancing" is a new concept for most of us, researchers are finding that it's actually standard practice for some animals when they are sick.
Philadelphia Police shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man waving a knife on Monday afternoon as his mother watched nearby. Protests in the city have raged in the two nights since.
The Kentucky Attorney General's Office and an attorney for the former police officer charged for his actions in connection with the raid that killed Breonna Taylor argued Wednesday to keep investigative materials from being released to the public.
Walter Wallace Jr. could have not been a threat to police officers in Philadelphia when he was shot and killed, his family says.
Blue sprites and elves have been detected twirling in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter by NASA's Juno mission. While it may sound like something out of a fantasy novel, sprites and elves are actually two types of quick, bright flashes of light, or transient luminous events.
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BROOKLET -- United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler met with farmers and industry stakeholders at Cromley Farms, a sixth-generation family farm in Brooklet, to announce new five-year registrations for two dicamba products and an extended registration for…
Protests at a Washington, DC, police station over the death of a 20-year-old man left four officers injured, police tell CNN affiliate WJLA.
A 200-pound tortoise broke out of his enclosure, evaded capture for two days and wound up over 30 miles away from his Alabama home.
A police officer has been killed by a rooster while attempting to break up an illegal cockfight in the Philippines, authorities have said.
With the election less than a week away, it's understandable to be glued to politics coverage 24/7.
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Zeta strengthens into Category 2 hurricane and speeds up ahead of landfall on storm-weary Gulf Coast
Hurricane Zeta is now a Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds and is accelerating ahead of its landfall soon on the US Gulf Coast, where it will bring life-threatening surge and strong winds to places already pummeled over this historic storm season.
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Ted Cruz yelled. His Democratic colleague Brian Schatz called the hearing in which he was speaking "a sham." Committee chair Roger Wicker couldn't pronounce the last name of Google's CEO. Just another day on Capitol Hill for Big Tech.
Is flying safer than going to the grocery store? A Harvard study claims the combination of masks and high-quality ventilation systems on airplanes make it hard to catch Covid-19. But there are a lot of other factors at play.
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Europe is drowning in the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic. Infection rates are skyrocketing across the continent. Governments are imposing strict lockdowns. Economies are shutting down again. But there is a glimmer of hope: The virus, while still deadly, appears to be killing fewer p…
Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for approximately 70,000 residents in Orange County, California, as firefighters continue to battle two new wildfires -- the Silverado Fire and Blue Ridge Fire -- which grew to nearly 30,000 acres combined in less than 48 hours.
Typhoon Molave made landfall just south of the Vietnamese resort city Da Nang on Wednesday, lashing the coast with powerful rains and winds, and inflicting further misery on an area still reeling from widespread deadly flooding.
The Philadelphia Police Department requested that residents in seven districts to stay indoors as demonstrators took to the streets for a second night following the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
A 19-year-old Hong Kong activist facing secession charges under the city's national security law was detained Tuesday amid reports he planned to attempt to claim asylum at the United States consulate.
The government of Qatar has said it "regrets any distress or infringement on the personal freedom of any traveler" after it was revealed that more than 18 women from 10 different flights were subjected to compulsory intimate medical examinations following the discovery of an abandoned infant…
In the 1980s, paleontologists at the University of California Riverside visited Seymour Island, part of an island chain in the Antarctic Peninsula. They brought home a number of fossils -- including the foot bone and partial jaw bone of two prehistoric birds.
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Months after the remains of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen were found in Texas, her family says there are still many things they don't know about her killing.
LeBron James is hoping to shed some light on a tragedy that has been largely absent from American history books.
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's order to limit mail-in ballot drop box locations to one site per county, a decision that largely affects the Houston and Austin areas.
A superintendent in Maine apologized Tuesday after receiving backlash from students for a memo telling staff to not display any "controversial" phrases including "Black Lives Matter" ahead of the election.
For years, it's been a local tradition: Sticking "I Voted" stickers in Susan B. Anthony's grave.
Is this the plot of a soap opera involving penguins? No, it's just another day at DierenPark Amersfoort, a zoo in the Netherlands.
This Election Day, Alabama voters once again will decide whether to remove racist language from the state's constitution and other sections that ground it in its segregationist past.
Several players and staff of the Los Angeles Chargers have been forced to leave their homes because of the ongoing fires in Southern California.
The girlfriend of Marcellis Stinnette, who survived the shooting that killed the 19-year-old in Waukegan, Illinois, last week, told reporters Tuesday the police harassed her and Stinnette before opening fire without warning after she drove away.
It's another step in humankind's return to the moon, and eventually on to Mars.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is ending the 2020 race as he began it, arguing that the "soul of the nation" is at stake and that he would seek to heal a country fractured by Donald Trump's presidency.
Orca Bay Foods is recalling more than 350 cases of Trader Joe's brand Gluten Free Battered Halibut because the fish were packaged without listing milk or wheat as allergens.
It's mid-afternoon, and Shonda Johnson just wrapped up her third hair appointment of the day. Her phone rings, and it's her 13-year-old son calling from home. He wants to know if he can have some snacks.
A 12-million-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth in January 2018 is covered in more than 2,600 organic compounds, according to new research. Meteorites such as this one likely acted as messengers early in Earth's history, delivering the building blocks of life, the researchers said.
The actions of Louisville, Kentucky, police on the night Breonna Taylor was fatally shot were "negligent" and "criminal," two anonymous grand jurors in the case said in a broadcast interview to air Wednesday.
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ALBANY โ On Oct. 20, Democratic candidate Joyce Barlow received the endorsement of former vice president and presidential candidate Joe Biden in her race for state representative of House District 151, which includes Dougherty, Terrell, Randolph, Early, Clay, Calhoun, Stewart, Webster and Qu…
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One week from Election Day, early voters so far are younger, more racially diverse and more likely to be Democrats than they were ahead of the 2016 election in many of the key states that could decide the next president.
John Bjorkman's life revolved around children -- his own children, his children's children, and those he taught in South Dakota schools for more than three decades.
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The Trump administration is set to announce as early as this week that Medicare and Medicaid will cover out-of-pocket costs for a potential coronavirus vaccine that is granted emergency use authorization, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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A federal judge on Tuesday denied the Justice Department's effort to effectively end a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump brought by a longtime magazine columnist who has alleged he raped her in a luxury department store dressing room, paving the way for the case to proceed.
Protesters took to the streets and bands of looters broke into businesses for a second night after officers in Philadelphia shot and killed a Black man who was holding a knife in an encounter that city officials say raises questions.
Earlier this year, Gabrielle Perry went on one of the best dates she'd ever had.
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Health workers in some hospitals in Liege, Belgium's third largest city and a coronavirus hotspot, have been asked to continue working even if they test positive for Covid-19 -- as long as they are not showing any symptoms of the disease.
Keith Raniere, founder of the company Nxivm, has been sentenced to 120 years in prison.
Two out-of-control wildfires in Southern California grew Tuesday, but while officials issued some new evacuation orders, they also told many residents from Irvine they could go home.
The Senate majority is firmly within Democrats' reach with just a week to go until Election Day.
American Airlines is so set on convincing passengers the beleaguered Boeing 737 Max planes are safe to fly, it plans to give tours and Q-and-A sessions.
After slamming into the Yucatรกn Peninsula in Mexico, Tropical Storm Zeta is heading toward the Gulf Coast -- and residents are bracing for its impact.
After slamming into the Yucatรกn Peninsula in Mexico, Tropical Storm Zeta is heading toward the Gulf Coast -- and residents are bracing for its impact.
Tens of thousands of US and Japanese troops will begin a massive island-landing exercise in the Pacific later this week as part of joint military operations seen as a warning to China that Washington backs Tokyo over Beijing's claim to Japanese-controlled islands.
