Some American myths go all the way back to the nation’s founding. Like the one where, as a young boy, America’s first president, George Washington, felt compelled to tell the truth about taking a hatchet to his father’s cherry tree because he could not tell a lie. “There are plenty of lies that are kind […]
“We’re calling this an object because that’s the best description we have right now,” said a White House spokesperson, adding that the object was roughly the size of a small car. The Pentagon on Friday confirmed that the U.S. military shot down an unidentified “object” tens of thousands of feet over Alaska, less than a week after […]
Rescue crews in Turkey and Syria raced against time Thursday and a lack of equipment to find survivors buried in the rubble of buildings toppled by powerful earthquakes that struck the region Monday and left more than 20,000 people dead so far. The country’s disaster management agency said Thursday that about 110,000 personnel are involved […]
Climate advocates welcomed the forecast—although one expert stressed that the world doesn’t need “miracle technologies” or new nuclear power to meet its electricity needs. Renewable energy will become the world’s number one electricity source by 2025 thanks largely to a surge in wind and solar, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, a development welcomed by […]