A new search tool uses machine learning to search millions of U.S. newspaper pages for historical pictures. The U.S. Library of Congress recently launched the tool, called Newspaper Navigator. The online search system is available for free to the pub...
New US Citizen Refugees Excited for First Presidential Vote They came to the United States fleeing war and persecution in countries like Myanmar, Eritrea and Iraq. They were chosen by the Obama administration to resettle in the U.S. under longstandin...
People around the world have been reacting to the debate between the two main candidates for president in the United States. President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden met Tuesday night in Cleveland, Ohio, for the first of three plann...
France says it plans to ban the use of wild animals in traveling circuses as part of new rules set to take effect in coming years. The new measures will also ban the keeping of dolphins and killer whales in captivity and make it unlawful for minks to...
Finland has deployed dogs trained to smell the coronavirus at the country's main international airport. A trial of this experimental search method will take place for four months. If successful, the system could be established as a low-cost and quick...
Walmart Uses Drones to Fly COVID-19 Tests to American Homes Walmart has begun using drone aircraft to transport COVID-19 tests to private homes in the United States. This week, the company began sending COVID-19 self-collection kits to homes in the N...
The company Johnson Johnson has begun the final part of its trial of a single-treatment, COVID-19 vaccine. The study will be one of the world's largest, testing the injection in 60,000 volunteers in the United States, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil,...
A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday charged one of three police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old Black woman was shot by officers inside her home in Louisville last March. The officer, Brett Hankison, was not...
Archaeologists Find 27 Coffins at Egypts Saqqara Pyramid Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 27 coffins inside a large burial ground in an ancient city south of Cairo. The coffins have remained unopened since they were buried more than 2,500 year...
Much has been written about the 102 Europeans who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower ship in 1620. Much less has been written about the Wampanoag Native American community that the Europeans met on the other side. Four centuries later, a new...
