Residents and local officials have long blamed the high number of cancer cases on contamination from a rail yard originally owned by Southern Pacific and later bought by Union Pacific near two historically Black neighborhoods, Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens. The wood preservative creosote, which has been associated with an...
Beijing has warned Manila not to “stir up trouble” after the Philippine coastguard removed a floating barrier at a disputed reef that was deployed by China to block Filipinos from the traditional fishing ground within their country’s own exclusive economic zone (EEZ)....
It’s a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano....
They Gossiped At Brunch. Now There’s a Mob After Them | People are sharing other people’s gossip on TikTok, and experts say that it could have IRL effects::The growing trend of gossip TikTok is putting people’s personal lives on blast — and it risks setting up a self-imposed surveillance state.
Brett Eagleson, whose father, Bruce Eagleson, was killed when one of the hijacked planes destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Center, called the events that forced the sidelining of al-Shibh’s prosecution “another example of the lack of justice that the 9/11 community has received at the hands of our own...
Drug dealer flew drone carrying $75K in opioids, porn-filled USB drive into prison yard::Cheyenne Petryszyn was sentenced after admitting to her role in a smuggling plot that involved launching a drone to deliver drugs and porn to a Queensland, Australia, prison.
In an extraordinary show of support for organized labor, President Biden said he would join workers in Michigan on the front lines of their strike against leading automakers.