DHS arrests another student involved in Columbia university protests
Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Department of Homeland Security has arrested a second student who was involved with Columbia University protests, the agency announced. Leqaa Korda was arrested by agents from Homeland Security Investigations for
Kenyans grapple with elephants destroying crops
ABC News (NAIROBI, Kenya) — As cute and confident as Pardamat now seems, the little elephant had a difficult start to life. “Pardamat was found next to the dead body of his mother,” Edwin Lusichi, head keeper
Measles cases linked to Texas outbreak grows to 259, with just 2 among fully vaccinated people
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (GAINES COUNTY, Texas) — The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 259, with 36 cases reported over the last three days,
Schumer defends support for GOP funding bill ahead of Senate votes to avoid shutdown
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Friday morning to defend his decision to support a Republican short-term funding bill that will effectively help avoid a
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasts Schumer over GOP funding plan vote
Graeme Sloan for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday called Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s decision to vote for the House GOP funding bill to avert a government shutdown “a
Former CDC director argues for stronger, nationwide guidance on infant measles vaccine dose
Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called for stronger, nationwide guidance on infant vaccine doses for measles prevention in a new opinion
Consumer sentiment sours amid trade war, recession fears: Survey
lechatnoir/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Consumer attitudes soured in March alongside slumping markets and growing concern about a possible recession, University of Michigan survey data on Friday showed. Sentiment worsened more than economists expected. The figure marked
Trump to make rare visit to Department of Justice following dismissal of his historic prosecutions
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is set to visit the Justice Department on Friday — a move that comes as he has sought to assert control over the nation’s top law-enforcement agency that brought
US stocks climb amid signs government may avert shutdown
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. stocks climbed in early trading on Thursday, advancing amid signs the federal government may avert a shutdown and recovering some of the losses suffered during an escalating trade war. The
Hamas says it will release American hostage Edan Alexander
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Hamas announced it will release American hostage Edan Alexander and “the bodies of four other dual nationals” after receiving a a proposal from mediators to resume negotiations. The group responded