JANUARY 13, 2023
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is offering hunters recommendations after a deer legally harvested in Fairfax County tested positive for a deadly, progressive neurological disease.
The deer was found to have chronic wasting disease (CWD), which officials describe as an incurable disease found in deer, elk and moose that is slow-acting and ultimately results in the...
JANUARY 13, 2023
Storms hit California
SALINAS, CALIFORNIA - California's Salinas River began creeping over its banks on Friday morning, flooding roads leading to nearby communities where 24,000 people were urged to evacuate in the face of yet another in a series of storms that have pelted the state.
Farmers worked feverishly to erect berms to protect their fields in the part...
JANUARY 13, 2023
President Joe Biden's handling of government records is under scrutiny amid the discovery of classified documents in his private office and the garage of his home in Wilmington, Del. - ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS, AFP via Getty Images
Revelations that classified documents going back to President Joe Biden’s years as vice president have been found in his private office in...
JANUARY 13, 2023
FILE - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks with reporters during a visit to the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation incubator at the Center for Innovative Technology campus in Herndon, Va., Oct. 21, 2022. Yellen has notified Congress that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid...
JANUARY 13, 2023
Trump Organization Lawyers William Brennan and Michael van der Veen exit the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York City, Jan. 13, 2023. - Andrew Kelly/Reuters
Former President Donald Trump's namesake family real estate firm was sentenced to the maximum allowable fine Friday in New York following its conviction on 17 counts, including a 13-year scheme to defraud.
The company...
JANUARY 11, 2023
James Cameron at the world premiere of "Avatar: The Way of Water" on December 6, 2022, in London, England. - Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney
Avatar: The Way of Water" is the No. 7 highest-grossing movie of all time.
Director James Cameron told Variety, "enough with the streaming already" and praised theatergoing.
Cameron said last week the...
JANUARY 11, 2023
Travelers walk as a video board shows flight delays and cancellations at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday. - Patrick Semansky/AP
The disruption on Wednesday was caused by an outage to a system that the Federal Aviation Administration uses to send real-time safety alerts to pilots.
Those NOTAM alerts — short for Notice to Air...
JANUARY 10, 2023
Antarctica's Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney on November 26, 2006. - National Science Foundation/Peter Rejcek
Blood Falls is a waterfall of vibrant red water that oozes out of Antarctica's Taylor Glacier.
Its unique color is due to iron salts seeping out of the ice that turn red when exposed to...
JANUARY 10, 2022
In this photo courtesy of evolutionary biologist Kristin Winchell, an Anolis cristatellus lizard stands on a gate in Rincon, Puerto Rico, Nov. 22, 2018. (Kristin Winchell/New York University via AP)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Lizards that once dwelled in forests but now slink around urban areas have genetically morphed to survive life in the city, researchers have...
JANUARY 9, 2023
FILE - Bill Gates speaks during the Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment Conference, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, in New York. Gates topped The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of the 10 largest charitable gifts announced by individuals or their foundations in 2022. This year's list totaled nearly $9.3 billion. Gates gave $5 billion to the Bill & Melinda...
