In 2011, while the US and the world were riveted by headlines of a second mass shooting at Virginia tech, the meltdown at Fukushima nuclear plant, and the death of Moammar Gadhafi, something most Americans could never imagine, was playing out behind the scenes. Jon Stryker, heir to a medical fortune and founder of Arcus Foundation, an LGBT NGO generated by Stryker’s wealth, was building a powerf...Continue Reading

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, fresh off her confirmation to serve as associate justice on the nation\'s highest court, took her Constitutional Oath on Monday at the White House. The Supreme Court said in a press release that Barrett will be able to start her new role after Chief Justice John Roberts administers her Judicial Oath on Tuesday. Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional...Continue Reading

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates officially opened normal relations Tuesday, signing diplomatic agreements during a White House ceremony that was hosted by President Trump. "The blessings of the peace we make today will be enormous," Netanyahu said. "First, because this peace will eventually expand to include other Arab states...Continue Reading

President Trump announced today the FDA has approved the emergency authorization for convalescent plasma to treat Covid-19. Plasma is the liquid portion of the blood. That liquid portion contains natural immunity that someone developed to contain the Covid-19. More than 100,000 people that affected Covid-19 and recovered from the decease donated the plasma and more than 70,000 people received t...Continue Reading

The dean of the UNC school of public health said in a blog post Monday that UNC-Chapel Hill should shift to all online classes. Dean Barbara K. Rimer of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health wrote that growing numbers of COVID-19 clusters and students socializing off campus without masks and social distancing mean it’s “time for an off-ramp,” or a return to all-remote learning. ...Continue Reading

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News that China poses “a greater national security threat” to the United States “than any other nation,” detailing a web of threats that includes “election influence and interference.” Intelligence officials say they are increasingly concerned about interference in the U.S. election by China, adding to existing concerns about...Continue Reading

Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer fired after the killing of Rayshard Brooks last week, now faces 11 charges including felony murder, which could potentially lead to the death penalty, a Georgia district attorney announced Wednesday. A second officer, Devin Brosnan, is facing three charges, including aggravated assault. Brosnan has agreed to testify in the case against Rolfe, Fulton C...Continue Reading

A North Carolina teenager who strangled his mother after a disagreement over pizza was sentenced Nov. 30 to 12 to 15 years in state prison. Indian American Arnav Uppalapati was 16 at the time he committed the heinous crime in his Cary, North Carolina home. But he is now 19 and will serve his sentence in prison rather than a juvenile detention center. Uppalapati himself called police after he st...Continue Reading

COLUMBUS COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Highway Patrol says a child injured in a traffic crash in Columbus County yesterday has died one day before her birthday. Sgt. Matt Young says Monika Deshmukh, 36, was driving a Ford Focus when she failed to stop at a stop sign at the end of the ramp from US 74 East to US 410 and into into the path of an oncoming tanker truck. The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. n...Continue Reading

Police praised an 8-year-old boy for saving his 10-year-old sister from a kidnapper and carjacker in Middletown, Ohio. The children were with their great-grandmother, 69-year-old Nita Coburn, who parked in front of the hospital entrance at Atrium Medical Center to help her sick daughter get inside. Coburn told WCPO-TV she thought she had locked her car doors, but later realized that a safety...Continue Reading

If you stole something in the ancient world, you really didn’t want to get caught. The old Hebraic law had some of the least dire consequences, only requiring a malefactor to pay several times the value of the thing pilfered. Other societies would sentence thieves to hard labor or asset confiscation. Some would even remove fingers, a hand, or an arm. Today’s sentences aren’t quite as g...Continue Reading

A Boeing 767 cargo jetliner heading to Houston with three people aboard crashed Saturday into a bay just east of the city, according to officials. Lynn Lunsford with the Federal Aviation Administration did not immediately know the status of the people aboard and the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office could not immediately be reached for comment. The twin-engine plane had departed from Miami ...Continue Reading

There was a rich man in a countryside who had hundreds of sheeps in his farm and the rich man hired a shepherd to take care of the sheeps. There used to be Wolves coming in to the farm and they attack and kill the sheeps. One day the rich man came to the farm to see the sheeps and found out a lot of sheeps missing. The rich man asked the shepherd what happened to the rest of the sheeps. The shephe...Continue Reading

A triple amputee U.S. military veteran says he was inspired to raise money for President Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall after reading a New York Post article that questioned why no one had taken up the mantle. In just three days, Brian Kolfage’s GoFundMe campaign, “We The People Will Fund The Wall,” has racked up more than $2 million from more than 34,000 people, with a goal of raising $...Continue Reading

Update: 10/27/2018 4:38 PM EST Authorities confirmed 11 people died and injuring six others, including four police officers, before being taken into custody. *** A suspect opened fire at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh, this morning, killing at least 8 people and injuring several others, local officials say. He is reported to have shouted anti-Semitic abuse. The su...Continue Reading