1 in 6 deaths worldwide attributed to pollution: Review
Eric Yang/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — One out of every six deaths in 2019 were attributed to pollution, according to a new estimate published in The Lancet Planetary Health.
The analysis, led by an international team of scientists, indicates that pollut…
Person of interest sought in slayings of retired New Hampshire couple
New Hampshire Department of Justice(CONCORD, N.H.) — A person of interest is being sought in the slayings of a retired New Hampshire couple found shot to death last month on a hiking trail near their Concord home, authorities announced on Tuesday.
Th…
McConnell, when asked, fails to denounce racist ‘replacement theory’
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — As Democrats have ratcheted up condemnation of “replacement theory” in the wake of Saturday’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, some Republicans on Capitol Hill have shied away from rejecting the racist idea t…
Disease modelers predict COVID winter comeback as current surge appears to start plateau
(Image from UW Medicine/Institute For Health Metrics and Evaluation) The COVID modelers at the University of Washington say they expect we’ll see another new variant, but they say it doesn’t necessarily mean another pandemic step backward. The
1 dead, 1 rescued after sand collapses at Jersey Shore beach: Police
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(TOMS RIVER, N.J.) — One person is dead and another has been rescued after the siblings became trapped under sand while digging at a Jersey Shore beach Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
Police and emergency medical servic…
Hero pastor describes how elderly congregation helped to stop California church shooter
ABC News(LAGUNA WOODS, Calif.) — The pastor being hailed a hero for helping to thwart a gunman from taking additional lives at a California church described how the congregation, consisting mostly of elderly attendees, overtook the shooter.
About 50 …
Regular shoppers, a retired police officer: Remembering the victims of the Buffalo shooting
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Ten people, all of whom were Black, were killed in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, in an attack authorities are calling a “racially motivated hate…
Democratic House primaries could foreshadow party’s direction
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — While much of the focus this midterm cycle has been on statewide races and the momentum behind Republicans amid dismal approval numbers for President Joe Biden, several Democratic House primaries could be emblema…
Election updates: Mixed results for Trump-backed candidates in GOP primaries
Nate Smallwood/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Voters were heading to the polls Tuesday for primary elections in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Idaho and Oregon amid a midterm season that will test the endorsement power of both Presi…
Domestic violent extremists infiltrating abortion debate: DHS official
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Officials from the Department of Homeland Security warned that domestic violent extremists have been infiltrating the national abortion debate “to incite violence amongst their supporters,” a seni…