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...
Next, an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government. The political turmoil in Belarus since the fraudulent reelection of authoritarian Alexander Lukashenka on August 9 continues. Members of the political opposition in Belarus set...
Next, an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government. It is welcome news that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is out of a medically-induced coma and is responding to verbal stimuli, according to his doctors in Berlin. A st...
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...
Rights Group Urges Social Media to Save Evidence of War Crimes A rights group has called on social media companies to save images and video that could be used as evidence to investigate serious crimes. Companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are...