C’River border communities lament influx of refugees, encroachment on farms Many borderline communities in Obanliku and Obudu LGAs in the Northern Senatorial District of Cross River State have lamented the continual influxes of ... 05/3/2024 - 8:44 pm | View Link
Smugglers and migrants: How S.Africa's border became a hot election issue As night falls, a handful of South African soldiers slouch under a tent near a crocodile-infested pond off the largely dry Limpopo River separating their country from Zimbabwe. Of South Africa's six ... 05/2/2024 - 6:23 pm | View Link
Study: HIV cases along border spiked during COVID-19 pandemic SAN DIEGO ( Border Report) — Researchers at UC San Diego and UC Irvine found that when border restrictions were in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, HIV transmissions in Tijuana and San Diego went ... 05/2/2024 - 10:01 am | View Link
Migrants, desperate to reach the U.S. border, are traveling inside cargo trucks. Some never make it. The burgeoning illegal industry has left at least a hundred dead and dozens wounded between 2018 and 2023 as the records of tens of thousands, including children, attest. 05/2/2024 - 3:37 am | View Link
This Nogales battle spurred construction of the first Southwestern border fence Only obelisks divided the U.S. and Mexico sides of Nogales. Then the 1918 Battle of Ambos forever changed the Southwestern border's sister cities. 05/1/2024 - 2:30 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.