A Texas judge on Wednesday blocked the state from investigating the parents of a transgender teenager over gender-confirmation treatments but stopped short of preventing the state from looking into other reports about children receiving similar care.Di…
Japanese Ambassador to Laos Kenichi Kobayashi joined many of the Japanese Embassy staff in Vientiane and student volunteers from the National University of Laos –NUOL- on a clean-up activity by the Mekong River last Saturday.Hosted by the Faculty of En…
The moon is about to get walloped by nearly 3 metric tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitrailer trucks.The leftover chunk of a rocket will smash into the far side
A leading cybersecurity firm says it has discovered a “highly sophisticated” piece of malware being used by Chinese hacking teams to attack government and critical infrastructure targets.Symantec, a division of U.S.-based software designer and manufact…
Some of America’s best-known companies including Apple, Google, Ford, Harley-Davidson and Exxon Mobil rebuked and rejected Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, under steady pressure from investors and consumers decrying the violence.Late Tuesday, Apple …
While many people spent Valentine’s Day with the traditional flowers and chocolates, Brittney Johnson was making theater history.The young Broadway veteran was gently lowered onto the Gershwin Theatre stage to become the first Black actor to assume the…
A rare version of a book considered the first novel published in the U.S. by a Black woman has returned to her home state of New Hampshire.An original first edition of Harriet Wilson’s “Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life
Archaeologists in Jordan’s southeast desert have discovered a 9,000-year-old ritualistic complex. It’s the earliest known large human-built structure involving Neolithic hunting communities. Experts say it points to civilization in the Middle East much…
