Police in Vermont are investigating after an elementary school student brought a firearm and dozens of rounds of ammunition to school, authorities said. A student at Pownal Elementary in Pownal brought an unloaded 9 mm handgun and 67 rounds of ammu...
FireAid, the benefit concert that raised an estimated $100 million for those impacted by the Los Angeles fires last month, announced $50 million in grants on Tuesday to dozens of community-based organizations assisting in disaster recovery. The in...
As wildfires continue to burn across Los Angeles County, displacing tens of thousands of families and forcing many into temporary housing, two mothers have launched a grassroots project to reunite displaced children with their beloved stuf...
Less than two weeks after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down on the streets of midtown Manhattan, his alleged assassin Luigi Mangione has been greeted not by universal condemnation for the brazen violence -- but rather, a surge of en...
In his first comments since Luigi Mangione was charged with second-degree murder on Monday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said he was confident that the 26-year-old would quickly be extradited to New York where he will be held accountable f...
Luigi Mangione faces a second-degree murder charge in New York in connection with the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to an online court docket filed Monday. The 26-year-old was also charged with possession of a loaded firear...
An urgent manhunt is underway for a suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson....
UnitedHealth Group has released a statement saying their “hearts are broken” and that they have been “touched by the huge outpouring of kindness and support” since CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in Manhattan early Wednesda...
Gen Z ditching 4-year colleges for trade schools, Wall Street Journal reports...
Emmanuel Macron has won five more years as French president after a convincing victory over rival Marine Le Pen, who nevertheless secured the far right's highest share of the vote yet. He won by 58.55% to 41.45%, a greater margin...
Memory B cells were discovered more than half a century ago. But scientists are just beginning to understand the crucial role they play in protecting people from serious illness. n October 2020, a team of virologists at the Rockefeller Uni...
Dr. Jennifer Ashton breaks down a new study looking at immunity levels of those who have been vaccinated and boosted and those who experienced a natural infection of COVID-19....
As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, communities are giving thanks by giving back. From Arizona to Massachusetts, things like donated turkeys are being handed out to fill Thanksgiving Day tables. In Mansfield, Massachusetts, on...
Part of the New Zealand-based visual effects studio co-founded by Oscar-winning director Sir Peter Jackson has been sold for $1.6bn (£1.2bn). A division of Weta Digital, which has worked on films including Lord of the Rings...
Prince William and Harry reunite to honor Princess Diana...
Current antibody tests are not designed to detect vaccine-related antibodies....
Israeli opposition parties have reached an agreement to form a new government that would end Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year tenure as prime minister. Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, announced an eight-faction co...
The head of the World Health Organization has ruled out a herd immunity response to the pandemic. Herd immunity occurs when a large portion of a community becomes immune to a disease through vaccinations or through the mass spread of a disea...
China's Great Wall: How technology is helping to restore it. The Jiankou section of the wall ribbons over top mountains for 20km (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri) Built in the 1500s and early 1600s, the Jiankou section was left u...
While the latest research suggests that antibodies against Covid-19 could be lost in just three months, a new hope has appeared on the horizon: the enigmatic T cell. he clues have been mounting for a while. First, scientists discovered pat...