Bomb demonstration by APD in south Austin Texas' Bomb Making Materials Awareness program hopes to educate the public about how to recognize suspicious activity. Now, the city of Austin is joining the program. 04/26/2024 - 1:20 pm | View Link
Israeli Air Strikes Kill 24 in Rafah, Gaza Health Officials Say Israeli air strikes overnight killed 24 Palestinians in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. 04/21/2024 - 6:38 pm | View Link
Iran slams Israel’s attack; Strike kills 9 family members Iran and Israel appeared to step back from the brink of broader conflict as poliiticians in the US approved new Israeli military aid on Saturday despite growing criticism of its ally’s war in Gaza. 04/20/2024 - 6:55 am | View Link
Iranian military base in Iraq ‘targeted by Israeli air strikes’ Tensions in the Middle East remain high after several people were wounded in a “bombing” on an Iraqi military base housing pro-Iranian armed groups, after Israel launched a direct air strike against ... 04/19/2024 - 2:07 pm | View Link
Palestinians in Gaza search for remains after deadly Rafah strike Israel continues its bombing of Gaza tensions rise in the Middle East after Iran's attack on Israel over the weekend. 04/17/2024 - 9:03 pm | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.