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Lester is charged with the shooting of Ralph Yarl, who had knocked on the wrong door to pick up his brothers on April 13, 2023 in Kansas City

Five companies are responsible for a quarter of all plastic waste worldwide, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances. The study, conducted by the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, involved surveys of plastic waste collected from 2018 to 2022. Of more than 1.8 million pieces of waste collected, over 900,000 had...

The inequity of canceling student debt but no other types of debt will become more glaring.

Former President Trump is the front-runner in a three-way race with President Biden and Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll shared with The Hill on Monday. In a race between the three candidates, 44 percent of registered voters said they backed Trump while 38 percent said they would vote...

While climate change is in general increasing the ferocity and frequency of severe weather events, the same effects may not apply to the massive snow dumps that occasionally pummel the U.S. West. The quantity of snow that falls during so-called "snow deluge" years — such as the big 2023 snow season in California — is...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revising long-standing rules to place laboratory tests under the same jurisdiction as other testing, which the agency says will help ensure better safety and efficacy. Since 1976, the FDA has not enforced legal requirements on most laboratory developed tests (LDT) due to the Medical Device Amendments. Generally speaking,...

Prehistoric humans are often believed to have largely eaten meat — to the extent that proponents of many modern low-carb diets portray them as closely resembling humans' “primordial” eating style. But a recent excavation at a cave in Taforalt, Morocco, complicates this picture, according to findings published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution. These findings challenge “the prevailing notion”...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Monday his state will not abide by the Biden administration’s sweeping new changes to Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at government-funded schools. In a letter to President Biden, Abbott railed against the revised rules — which provide new protections for transgender students — saying...

Basketball star Brittney Griner this week will speak publicly about her experience in a Russian prison for the first time since her release in December 2022. In an interview with Robin Roberts, scheduled to air Wednesday on ABC, the Olympic gold medalist and a nine-time WNBA All-Star breaks down as she shares that her incarceration...

Multiple law enforcement officers were hit by gunfire Monday afternoon in Charlotte, N.C., according to local police. A U.S. Marshals Task Force, which includes officers from different agencies, was conducting an investigation near the 5000 block of Galway Drive when they were "engaged by active gunfire from a subject," the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said on...