[ad_1] Authorities are responding to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which fell into the Patapsco River below in the early morning hours on Tuesday and brought people and vehicles with it after a container ship collided with one of its pillars. Officials said the bodies of two people were found late on…
[ad_1] On April 8, the moon will pass between the sun and Earth, blocking out the face of the sun in what is known as a total solar eclipse. It will be the last total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous U.S. until 2044. Those within the so-called path of totality – areas where the…
[ad_1] A large majority of transgender adults in the United States – 78% – say living with a gender different from the one assigned to them at birth has made them more satisfied with their lives, according to a survey from The Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation. Among respondents, more than three-quarters had changed…
[ad_1] What do Taylor Swift and Joe Biden have in common? Hint: It’s not the wacky conspiracy theory that’s emerged from the nether reaches of the social media cesspool. The answer: Both Biden and Swift have been the subject of dangerous and harmful deepfakes – technology that employs “deep learning” artificial intelligence to create fraudulent…
[ad_1] COVID-19 is associated with quadruple the risk of developing chronic fatigue, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and University of Washington. For a new analysis published Wednesday by the CDC in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers examined the electronic health records of more than 4,500 people who had…
[ad_1] Democrat Tom Suozzi flipped a New York congressional seat blue Tuesday night, narrowing the GOP’s already razor-thin majority in the House and boosting the spirits of Democrats fretting about President Joe Biden’s strength in the fall elections. The Associated Press called the race for Suozzi shortly after 10 p.m. With 85% of the vote…
[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump kicked off a last-ditch effort to preserve his claim of total immunity from criminal charges by asking the Supreme Court on Monday to intervene, filing an application for a stay of a lower-court ruling that he cannot use immunity as a defense. “President Trump is the leading candidate for President…
[ad_1] The year opened with a bang as employers added 353,000 jobs in January, far exceeding the most optimistic of forecasts. Job gains were fairly widespread with the strongest gains in professional and business services, health care, retail trade and social assistance. Economists had expected a slowdown to around 185,000 new jobs following December’s upwardly…
[ad_1] The French constitutional court on Thursday will decide which parts of a controversial immigration law can be enforced, days after tens of thousands of people protested across the country decrying the law’s far-right influences and what its enshrinement might mean for France. The law, passed in December, strengthens the country’s ability to deport foreigners…
[ad_1] The pace of new construction was mixed in December, as builders pulled more permits for new homes but started work on slightly fewer than a month earlier, according to a report from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Permits were 1.9% more than the upwardly revised 1.47 million November…
