AUGUST 3, 2019
Plastic bottles of water are seen for sale at a store Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, in San Francisco. San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. The unprecedented move at one of the major airports in the country will take effect Aug. 20, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The new rule...
AUGUST 2, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from Sept. 1, sharply escalating a bruising trade war between the world's largest economies and jolting financial markets.
The announcement on Thursday extends Trump's trade tariffs to nearly all of the Chinese goods the United States imports and marks...
AUGUST 2, 2019
FILE - This undated file photo provided Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, by Russian Defense Ministry official web site shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground at the Luzhsky Range, near St. Petersburg, Russia. A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades...
AUGUST 1, 2019
The boy had a swollen jaw since he was 3, and when he finally had surgery on it at age 7, doctors found a sack with hundreds of small teeth inside. - SAVEETHA DENTAL COLLEGE
CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA - A 7-year-old boy in India had a legion of teeth removed from his mouth — 526 teeth, to...
AUGUST 1, 2019
India has registered a strong protest over the US approving a proposed military sale worth $125 million for Pakistan’s F-16 combat jet fleet, calling in the American envoy in New Delhi to convey its “grave concern”.
Days after the meeting between Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and US President Donald Trump, the Pentagon announced on July 26 that...
AUGUST 1, 2019
Heavy winter rains had then turned to ice, preventing reindeer from reaching their usual vegetation. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Two hundred reindeer died of starvation last winter on a remote Arctic archipelago, researchers in Norway reported, highlighting what they said were the effects of climate change on vulnerable ecosystems.
The archipelago, Svalbard, lies between the Norwegian mainland and the...
AUGUST 1, 2019
Six of the eight Ivies made the Wealth-X top 20 list of universities with ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) alumni, which ranks the schools with the wealthiest grads in the U.S. and abroad, as well as how their wealth was made. Each of the top 20 global universities on the 2019 University Ultra-High-Net-Worth Alumni Rankings had at least 2,000 UHNW...
JULY 31, 2019
Stocks finished lower Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dampened hopes for further rate cuts later this year.
The Dow closed 333 points lower after falling as much as 478 points at one point. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.1% and 1.2%, respectively. The Dow logged in its biggest one-day decline since May 31 along...
JULY 31, 2019
Don't be concerned if you can't see the moon Wednesday night: It's there, it's just a black moon.
This black moon will appear in North America at 11:13 p.m. EDT (8:13 p.m. PDT), and is the first one since September 2016.
A moon is considered "black" when it's the second new moon of the month, according to Space.com. A...
JULY 30, 2019
Doctors have turned the brain signals for speech into written sentences in a research project that aims to transform how patients with severe disabilities communicate in the future.
The study recording brain signals sent to trigger organ movement is considered a breakthrough.
The breakthrough is the first to demonstrate how the intention to say specific words can be extracted...
