Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to wipe out disease by the end of the century. The billionaire CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said they are giving $3 billion over the next ten years to advance research toward that end. A huge chunk, $600 million, will be dedicated to a new research center at the […]
Delta Air Lines said it canceled nearly 500 flights Tuesday as it tries to get operations back to normal following a computer systems failure Monday. The company blamed the outage on a loss of power at its hub in Atlanta, saying some of its critical systems failed to switch over to a backup that would […]
At least three police officers have been shot and killed and several others injured in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, local officials said. A spokesman for the sheriff’s office says one suspect has been killed two other are believed to be at large. Details on the incident are still coming in. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards called […]
Dallas police say a deadly ambush Thursday that killed five police officers during a protest was a “well-planned” attack carried out by several people. The U.S. military has confirmed one of the people, widely reported in U.S. media to be Micah Xavier Johnson, is a former Army Reservist who served in Afghanistan. Three other people, […]