This mystery object may be our first visitor from another solar...
October 27, 2017
Astronomers around the world are trying to track down a small, fast-moving object that is zipping through our solar system.
Is a comet? An asteroid? NASA's not sure. The space agency doesn't even know where it came from, but it's not behaving like the local space rocks and that means it may not be from our solar system.
JFK files: New details on plots; no ‘smoking gun’
October 27, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The vast trove of almost 3,000 new released files related to the Kennedy assassination includes letters between an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald and former CIA Director George H.W. Bush and a list of persons of interest in the case that includes Mafia figures, Cuban exiles and some of the men captured during the 1972 Watergate burglary.
What Australia’s bad flu season might mean for us
October 27, 2017
INDIANAPOLIS — As the flu season kicks off in the United States, halfway across the world, one of Australia’s worst flu seasons in recent years is winding down.
Flu vaccine – AJ Mast/For the Star
Drug company founder indicted in US-wide opioid conspiracy
October 26, 2017
PHOENIX — U.S. prosecutors brought a fraud and racketeering case Thursday against the founder of an opioid medication maker that has faced increasing scrutiny from authorities across the country over allegations of pushing prescriptions of powerful painkillers amid a drug epidemic that is claiming thousands of lives each year.
Trump holding back some JFK files, releasing others
October 26, 2017
UPDATE: WASHINGTON — The National Archives has released some of the long-secret records relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
UN report finds Syrian regime responsible for sarin attack
October 26, 2017
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for a deadly sarin gas attack on a rebel-held town in April, a UN report found Thursday.
UN report has found the Syrian regime was responsible for the sarin gas attack in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Maintains Power Via Brutal Prisons
October 26, 2017
North Korea is expanding the brutal prison network its repressive regime views as crucial to staying in power, according to a new report based largely on satellite images.
US National Monuments: This Land Is No Longer Your Land
October 26, 2017
Brad Wilson is following a forest trail and scanning the dusky spaces between the fir trees for signs of movement.
Retired lawman Wilson says ranchers have become more obstacles than neighbors. – THOMAS PRIOR FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK
New screenings for US-bound passengers on global airlines
October 25, 2017
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Five global long-haul airlines will begin new security interviews of all passengers on U.S.-bound flights starting Thursday at the request of American officials, the companies said Wednesday.
Clinton did not know about Trump dossier until publication: report
October 25, 2017
Hillary Clinton reportedly learned about the existence of a dossier containing unverified allegations about collusion between President Trump and Russia only after BuzzFeed News published the document, despite recent reports tying her campaign to funding it.
