By Jill Robbins 18 February 2020 The Boy Scouts of America, BSA, asked a federal court in the United States for legal protection Tuesday. The group wants to be declared bankrupt meaning it is unable to pay its debts. The BSA says the move will help i...
By Jill Robbins 18 February 2020 Two years ago this month, a 19-year-old American shot and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Fourteen of the victims were students; the other three were teachers. The gunman...
Computer maker Apple is warning investors that it will not meet its three-month financial goal because of the coronavirus outbreak in China. The company said Monday that all of its iPhone factories are outside Hubei province, where the outbreak began...
1-2-3, shouts Noradhiah Tumirin, a medical doctor and fitness trainer. You can do it, she says approvingly as her client, Sarah Baharudin, lies on her back and struggles to lift her legs in the air. Tumirin is leading Baharudin in an exercise class....
When the Islamic State (IS) group moved across northern Iraq in 2014, its forces tried to destroy the Yazidi people. Yazidis are an ethnic minority in Iraq. They had lived in the mountains of Kurdistan for a thousand years. IS fighters killed thousan...
American George Ball thinks he has one of the best-paying jobs available in the Chesapeake Bay area. The Chesapeake Bay stretches over 300 kilometers from Maryland to southeastern Virginia before its waters finally reach the Atlantic Ocean. George Ba...
In the American film Pulp Fiction, actor Samuel L. Jackson challenges two criminals. They are trying to take money from all of the people in a restaurant. Jackson plays the part of a former criminal who used to carry out targeted killings. He wants t...
A space object billions of kilometers away from Earth is giving scientists information about how our planet, and others, were formed. It is the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraft. It is named Arrokoth, and sometimes called Snowman beca...
Researchers have used very small electronic devices to make jellyfish stronger and faster. The scientists say they developed these electronic jellyfish in the hopes of sending them to study and explore the world's oceans. A report on the experiment w...
The United States Department of Education has launched an investigation into Harvard University and Yale University. Earlier this month, the agency announced the schools had failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign gifts and contra...
