Donald Sterling, the owner the National Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Clippers, has withdrawn his support of a deal to sell the franchise. Sterling issued a statement Monday saying he will proceed with a $1 billion lawsuit accusing the NBA of violating his rights after Commissioner Adam Silver imposed a lifetime ban on him and fined […]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered officials to create corridors to allow people in eastern Ukraine to escape areas that have seen months of fighting and safely move to other parts of the country. The president announced the move Tuesday, saying he wanted to “avoid new victims” as Ukrainian forces battle to regain control of […]
Gunmen opened fire near Karachi’s airport Tuesday, a day after a brazen Taliban attack on Pakistan’s busiest airport that left at least 36 people dead. The deputy general of the Airport Security Force, Colonel Tahir Ali, told reporters that at least two gunmen on a motorbike targeted the ASF’s training academy on Tuesday, but fled […]
This spring, John Yarie learned of the death of the oldest living things he knew. Since 1988, the silviculture professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks had measured and fertilized a stand of giant spruce trees on a hillside south of Fairbanks. A few weeks ago, forest technicians visited the site and found that one […]