Tag: renewable

The first day of school for Seattle public school students has been postponed after the teacher's union became the latest in recent weeks to...

A Missouri school district has announced that spanking will be reinstated this school year, but with a parental caveat. Merlyn Johnson, superintendent of Cassville School...

According to a new Human Rights Watch report, the Taliban killed or disappeared more than 100 former Afghan security forces members in four provinces...

The Biden administration has been planning Covid-19 booster shots for weeks, as the delta variant drives a new pandemic wave across the country. The...

One of the busiest trade ports on the US-Mexico border remained effectively closed Wednesday as frustrations and traffic jams grew over Texas Gov. Greg...

Since its initial public offering last July, Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) stock has taken investors for a wild ride. After closing at a high of $183...

According to The Wall Street Journal's senior White House correspondent, Michael Bender, "furious arguments, abrupt decision changes, perpetual dismay, and anarchy and chaos" defined...

As he’s reeled from twin scandals over his treatment of women and COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has had...

Pride parades began Sunday in New York City and across the country, with glittering confetti, cheering crowds, fluttering rainbow flags, and newfound fears about...

Mussa al-Nahas sat outside his fragrance and spice shop overlooking the Red Sea, beaming at the sight of Russian tourists returning to Sharm el-Sheikh...

The film and television industry in New Mexico has reached a new high, with record spending by video production companies in a state that...

President Biden aims to stay on track with his first 100-day agenda this week as Trump’s trial is set to begin. Trump’s impeachment trial...

The government announced on Monday that all adults in the United Kingdom will be able to get their booster Covid-19 vaccine doses three months...

President Bashar al-Assad, once regarded as a reformer but now regarded as a tyrant by his many detractors after a decade of war and...

A California judge on Friday struck down the nation's first law requiring corporate board diversity, a measure that many workplace diversity experts had hailed...

During a Sunday morning interview, Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, pushed back against the Republican National Committee's...

California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for the state’s most vulnerable neighborhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at...

A Michigan prosecutor will hold a news conference on Friday to discuss whether or not to charge the parents of the 15-year-old accused of...

There is reason to believe that the second ‘required’ dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is not quite necessary yet. Since Pfizer only has...

Employers in the United States added 528,000 jobs in July, as the labor market has now recovered all 22 million jobs lost during the...

Paul Bäumer, seventeen, struggles to breathe through the yellow lens of his gas mask. He takes in his first glimpse of the western front...

Historically, alternate realities have dominated both fact and fiction. From the use of augmented and virtual realities in air combat training to sci-fi stories...

Authorities have ruled homicide in the death of a University of Nevada, Las Vegas student who collapsed after taking part in a charity amateur...

As a Georgia grand jury investigates Donald Trump's behavior following his election loss in 2020, the former president's team has turned to one of...

Melissa Smith has had a hectic few weeks. In late May, an adjunct instructor at Oklahoma City Community College discovered that her Race and Ethnicity...

No longer a working member of the royal family, Prince Harry has a new job: executive at a Silicon Valley startup. The Duke of...

Because of Amazon's recent partnership with Affirm, an online payment plan service primarily seen and when shopping online fashion brands, the behemoth retailer will...

A new study has sparked interest on the internet, demonstrating how two cannabis compounds may have anti-COVID-19 properties. But weed smokers shouldn't get too...

A costly troop mobilization, plummeting energy prices, and a new round of Western sanctions threaten to wreak havoc on Russia's already battered economy and...

The coal plant is shutting down. Hundreds of workers will be laid off in this tiny Utah town surrounded by cattle, alfalfa fields, and...

After nearly three days of fighting, Israel and Palestinian militants agreed to a cease-fire, and Gaza's sole power plant reopened Monday as Israel reopened...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in more than a month, visiting a new state-built alpine city billed as...

The new King experienced yet another set of firsts this past week. This time, Charles III welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the...

When the officer who killed George Floyd was found guilty of murder in April, the slain Black man's lawyer hailed the verdict as a...

The city of Austin is attempting to shield its residents from prosecution under a Texas law that, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, would...

Omicron is already altering the way medicine combats COVID-19. Despite the fact that it has only recently become widespread in the United States, doctors, pharmacists,...

At the conclusion of a weeklong trip through Asia, Vice President Harris will make a trip to the disputed South China Sea's edge on...

Ashley Adirika, a teen from Florida, has always wanted to attend an Ivy League school. So she applied to all eight of them in...

If you are among the workers who live in fear of the stacked blocks in your Microsoft Outlook calendar detailing back-to-back meetings, this new...

Americans may soon have greater access to retirement plans and may be able to postpone withdrawing their savings as a result of new legislation...

As California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra led a national effort to preserve the Affordable Care Act and fought the Trump administration on issues ranging...

The Covid-19 crisis is approaching the second anniversary of the World Health Organization's pandemic declaration on March 11 – and many people are now...

Facebook's profit more than doubled in the most recent quarter as digital advertising surged, but the company warned of slower growth in the months...

The Biden administration is restoring California's authority to set its own automobile tailpipe pollution standards, reversing a Trump administration policy and likely ushering in...

Authorities said Wednesday that a shooting at a rail yard in San Jose, California, killed ten people, including the gunman, and injured others. Many...

A Michigan judge barred local prosecutors from enforcing a 1931 abortion ban on Monday, just hours after an appeals court ruled that they could,...

Two of the nation's top health agencies authorized and expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to allow older Americans to receive a second booster shot in...

Looking for a new reason to exercise? Here's an example: A large international research review discovered that regular exercise appears to significantly reduce your risk...

In the latest flare-up of tensions in the region, China's military announced the resumption of military drills around the island in response to the...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has provided an opportunity for North Korea, which has strengthened ties with Moscow and become one of its most...

Airlines for America, along with 28 other airline, travel, and business groups, wrote to White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeffrey Zients on Wednesday, urging...

It is unusual for a state to refuse federal funds. It is even rarer to see states refuse it in the name of improving...

A report on Maricopa County's 2020 election, ordered by Arizona state Senate Republicans and delivered to them on Friday, confirmed the state's certified election...

When the United States Catholic Bishops meet in June, they will decide whether to send a tougher-than-ever message to President Joe Biden and other...

Arkansas and other Southern states have emerged as critical battlegrounds in state and local officials' efforts to persuade enough unvaccinated Americans to get Covid-19...

Carissa Moore of the United States became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in surfing today. The Hawaiian surfer, who is so...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration on Tuesday in response to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants entering the United States through...

For weeks, César Salomé, a physician in Lima’s Hospital Mongrut, had followed the chilling reports. A new coronavirus variant, spawned in the Amazon rainforest,...

Domestic extremists cheered when two shootings at North Carolina substations left tens of thousands of people in the dark, despite a long-running campaign by...

The tax plan President Joe Biden laid out last week will likely hit technology and pharmaceutical companies particularly hard, although the challenge for legislators...

Gaston, a 57-year-old Venezuelan human rights lawyer, spent years visiting the country's most deplorable prisons defending students imprisoned for protesting the socialist government. Fearing retaliation...

Some residents want Buckhead to be its own city, the latest in a string of political schisms based on race and class in the...

The most recent coup in bauxite-rich Analysts say Guinea is reverberating throughout the aluminum market, but the global production chain appears to be unaffected...

Amber Heard has hired new lawyers in her latest legal battle. The actress has hired Ballard Spahr as her lead appellate counsel, less than a...

Martin Langesfeld recalls exactly where he was and what he was doing on June 24, 2021. "I was out with friends about 1:20 a.m.," Langesfeld...

Senate Republicans prevented Democrats from moving forward on voting rights legislation, and Democrats failed to obtain 50 votes to change Senate rules to allow...

A helicopter crash in the Alaskan wilderness left five people, including one of Europe’s richest residents, dead after the chopper went down on Saturday...

Dozens of migrants arrived by plane on Martha's Vineyard, as Republican governors escalate their campaign against President Biden's border policies by transporting refugees out...

Science and technology (S&T) underpins everyday life, from extreme weather to vaccines to remote learning and virtual working. However, according to the US Department...

Many religious leaders who support the anti-abortion movement have praised the new Texas law that prohibits most abortions in the state. However, some abortion...

China's technology behemoths have been pushing for the development of their own semiconductors or chips, which is seen as progress toward China's goal of...

Climbers were ecstatic when Nepal decided to reopen its side of Mount Everest this year, but reports indicate that even the world's highest peak...

New nuclear-weapons threats were made on Russian state television, with the head of state-controlled Russia Today (RT) Margarita Simonyan saying on air that the...

A federal grand jury has indicted four former Minneapolis police officers who were involved in George Floyd's arrest and death, accusing them of willfully...

A European court ruled on Tuesday that the Vatican cannot be sued in a local court for sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests, stating...

Research into the long-term effects of Covid-19 on the US workforce has confirmed what anyone who has waited for a delivery or been unable...

US authorities are keeping a close eye on Facebook due to anticompetitive concerns, and new details about its mid-2020 acquisition of gif creator Giphy...

In an effort to keep the controversy surrounding his godmother's treatment of a Black advocate for victims of domestic abuse from overshadowing his visit...

After announcing that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a US drone strike, Joe Biden took a well-deserved - and somewhat necessary...

Following coverage on Fox News Digital, a nonprofit organization in North Carolina that faced local backlash for raffling off a rifle to raise money...