MARCH 8, 2020
The Alabama Board of Education in 1993 voted to prohibit yoga, hypnosis and meditation in public school classrooms. - Photograph: fizkes/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Lawmakers move to lift decades-old ban, but the bill would continue to prohibit chanting, mantras and the greeting
Alabama could takes steps to lift a decades-old ban on yoga in public schools this week, but would keep...
MARCH 8, 2020
Fiona Hill, the president's former top adviser on Russia whose testimony was central to his impeachment inquiry, says Russia knows how to exploit our society's divisions to put Americans on edge – just where its president, Vladimir Putin, wants us. Hill speaks to Lesley Stahl in her first interview since her testimony on Capitol Hill for a...
MARCH 8, 2020
Women from a hardline religious seminary in the Pakistani capital Islamabad form military style rows in a counter protest against an International Women's Day march - held across the road. The seminary women accused the women's day marchers of vulgarity for chanting the slogan "my body, my choice." - Diaa Hadid/NPR
Demonstrators belonging to Islamist groups attacked an...
MARCH 8, 2020
Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. - Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
One top contender is struggling to make inroads with African Americans. The other, establishment frontrunner is struggling to put him away. Michigan could bury a campaign — or revive it. A messy national convention looms in the distance.
The 2020 Democratic primary is back where it was...
MARCH 8, 2020
A man rides a snowboard at Abali ski resort of Gevas district as Supermoon is seen over Turkey's Van on February 19, 2019. - Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
A supermoon heralding spring will light up the sky Sunday and Monday. The true full moon occurs Monday, but it will appear full for three days from early Sunday until...
MARCH 7, 2020
President Trump, with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar by his side, signs an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill to combat the coronavirus outbreak at the White House Friday. - Jabin Botsford/WashPost
The coronavirus had already begun to spiral out of control around the world when Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, during routine Senate testimony,...
MARCH 7, 2020
Spring fever alerts may have to be issued across the bulk of the United States in the coming days as warm air builds from the Great Plains to the Eastern Seaboard.
High pressure sitting over the eastern two thirds of the country will provide dry conditions and springlike warmth to these areas this weekend.
"Even though most...
MARCH 7, 2020
Hillary Clinton. - Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Hillary Clinton on Thursday took a sideswipe at first lady Melania Trump and her “Be Best” initiative.
“I think she should look closer to home,” Clinton said on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live” when asked how she feels about the first lady’s anti-cyberbullying initiative, suggesting she should examine her husband’s online...
MARCH 7, 2020
Syrian Olympic Committee 11-year-old Syrian table tennis player Hend Zaza, who has qualified for the 2020 Olympics
An 11-year-old Syrian table tennis player has qualified for Tokyo 2020 and is set to become one of the youngest Olympians of all time.
Prodigy Hend Zaza qualified to play in this summer's Games after winning last week's West Asia Olympic qualification...
MARCH 6, 2020
A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket with a payload of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — SpaceX launched another load of station supplies for NASA late Friday...
