Dinosaur fossils have been discovered for the first time in Hong Kong, on a remote island in the financial capital’s countryside. The fossils were found on Port Island, an uninhabitable expanse of rocks in the northeastern waters of the city, by Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department in March, the government said in a statement Wednesday. Researchers have determined that the bone fossils likely originated from ...
Widespread flooding and landslides set off by a tropical storm in the northeastern Philippines on Thursday left at least 24 people dead, swept away cars and prompted authorities to scramble for motorboats to rescue trapped villagers, some on roofs. The government shut down schools and offices – except those urgently needed for disaster response – for the second day on ...
The Israeli military has forced Palestinians to enter potentially booby-trapped houses and tunnels in Gaza to avoid putting its troops in harm’s way, according to an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier and five former detainees who said they were victims of the practice. The soldier, who said his unit held two Palestinian prisoners for the explicit purpose of using them ...
As new laws go, the Data Use and Access Bill sounds like one of the most boring imaginable. But don’t nod off just yet… The revamp of data laws, claims the government, has the potential to boost the economy, benefit patients, police and parents – even help reduce disruption from road repairs. But done wrong, privacy and digital rights campaigners ...
“Oink oink?” “Yes, of course.” Communication with pigs may soon be possible as scientists say they have developed an AI tool that can interpret what the animals are saying. While it’s not quite Doctor Doolittle, the algorithm is capable of decoding pig sounds and could potentially alert farmers to negative emotions, researchers say. It’s hoped the tool can help improve ...
It’s not clear exactly how many immigrants are living in the United States without authorization, for a number of reasons. The most obvious is that some people cross the border from Mexico and evade capture. It is definitionally hard to know how many people do so, but the government has gotten better at estimating the number in part because there ...
John F. Kelly, former president Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, said in a new interview that his former boss met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if elected again, had no empathy and did not understand the Constitution or the rule of law. This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com ...
A suspected drunk driver going the wrong way on a highway in Milwaukee came close to Vice President Kamala Harris’s motorcade on Monday night, officials said. A video obtained by WISN 12 News showed a white SUV traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94 around 8:30 p.m. Monday, passing several cars in Harris’s motorcade, until it was eventually ...
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday offered brief public remarks addressing comments made this week by former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who served in that position under Donald Trump. “This is a window into who Donald Trump really is from the people who know him best, from the people who worked with him side-by-side in the Oval ...
In the final three weeks of the presidential race, former president Donald Trump and his advisers have attacked one particular foe more than three dozen times: a little-known Kamala Harris aide named Ian Sams. The feud with Sams, a bespectacled 35-year-old longtime foot soldier in Democratic politics, started when Sams did what few Democrats are willing to do: He went ...