UN: World Population Expected to Reach 10.3 Billion in 2080s The United Nations is predicting the world's population will reach 10.3 billion in the 2080s. The prediction appears in a new U.N. report. The report also suggests that the population will...
A Short History of Attacks on US Presidents, Candidates Officials are investigating how a gunman was able to fire several shots at former President Donald Trump during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Trump said one bullet struc...
NATO Summit Aims to Increase Partnerships in Indo-Pacific The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is seeking closer ties with non-member partners from Asia at its 2024 leaders meeting. It opened Tuesday in the American capital, Washington, D.C. Leader...
Boeing Admits Guilt in Two Deadly Plane Crashes American company Boeing will admit to criminal charges of wrongdoing linked to two deadly passenger jet crashes. The aerospace manufacturer will also pay a fine of $243.6 million. The U.S. Department of...
Indias Garbage-picking Jobs Made Worse by Extreme Heat Near Jammu, India, the smell of burning garbage, or waste material, spreads out for kilometers across the city. The site where the garbage is burned holds a mix of plastic, industrial, and medica...
US Supreme Court: Presidents Have Immunity for 'Official Acts' The United States Supreme Court on Monday ruled that American presidents have immunity from prosecution over what the ruling calls official acts.The ruling recognizes - for the first time...
Should Buildings Where Deadly Shootings Happened Be Destroyed? Deadly mass shootings have affected many American communities in recent years. These communities have had to face a decision: Do they keep the buildings where the bloodshed happened? Or d...
US Cities Build Small Communities for the Homeless Some U.S. cities are building housing, called micro communities, that is meant to combat increasing homelessness. The housing units in these communities are small and built quickly. Unlike group shel...
Mysterious Structure Discovered in Nevada Desert A mysterious rising structure has been discovered in a rural desert area in the western American state of Nevada. The tall, pillar-shaped object is being described as a monolith. Images suggest it is m...
Summer Visitors Poison Trees to See Ocean Better A common subject for British mystery stories is a death at a seaside community. But in the northeastern state of Maine, mysterious, real deaths happened although the victims were trees that blocked the...
Candidate Uses AI Version of Self in British Election When voters go to the polls in Brighton, England on July 4, they will get the chance to elect what some people are calling the first artificial intelligence (AI) lawmaker. Businessman Steve Endaco...
Researchers Find Bottles of Cherries at George Washington's Home Researchers have made what they call a spectacular finding at the Mount Vernon home of Americas first president: almost 30 bottles of preserved fruit. The bottles of cherries and berrie...
In Mali, Hot Weather Threatens Ancient Fishing Tradition Thousands of fishermen holding nets stood side by side. They waited for the signal. Suddenly, they rushed to a large area of water and threw in their nets, dropping to their knees in the mud. S...
Tesla Chief Elon Musk Could Still Be Paid Billions of Dollars Tesla shareholders recently voted by a large majority to approve company chief Elon Musks 10-year pay plan. The plan, valued by the company in April at $44.9 billion, was even more valuabl...
Biden Announces Program to Give Half Million Immigrants Legal Status U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a program to offer a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the United States. Administrati...
