Some 25,000 dockworkers at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, from Boston to Houston, could strike as early as October 1. Their union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, has been in contract talks with the United States Maritime Alliance, representing ocean carriers and port operators, for months. But the two sides have not met face-to-face since…
Before Helene even made landfall in Florida, authorities conducted a dramatic rescue operation: The U.S. Coast Guard saved a man whose sailboat started taking on water off the coast of Sanibel Island. His dog, wearing a fluorescent life vest, was with him too. Both were brought to safety and reported to be in good medical…
Valeria Levitin, aged 39 and hailing from Monaco, is known as the world’s thinnest woman at just four stone. Her emaciated figure is a stark warning about the perils of eating disorders. Valeria has received fan mail from girls eager to replicate her skeletal appearance, a fact she finds deeply disturbing, stating, “I’m not going…
Lately, Audrey Rowe has been a bit preoccupied with a girl named Elma. Rowe is a paleoecologist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. And Elma is a woolly mammoth she’s studying. The mammoth’s full name, Élmayųujey’eh, was given to her by the Healy Lake Village Council – the Mendas Cha’ag People –…
Neuroscientist Nathan Sawtell has spent a lot of time studying a funky looking electric fish characterized by its long nose. The Gnathonemus petersii, or elephantnose fish, can send and decipher weak electric signals, which Sawtell hopes will help neuroscientists better understand how the brain pieces together information about the outside world. But as Sawtell studied…
Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actor Maggie Smith played everything from wistful ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter’s Prof. McGonagall and the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey. She died Friday at age 89. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Dame Maggie Smith – whose acting career spanned seven decades and traversed the stage and screen – has died at age…
Veronica, 17, drove with her mother nearly four hours from her home in Iowa to visit a doctor in Minneapolis in September. Iowa banned gender-affirming care for youth in March 2023. Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR DES MOINES, Iowa – In the future, Veronica sees herself in a big city. “I like chaos and spontaneousness,” she says, and…
A vehicle, a golf cart and a playhouse are submerged from flooding Friday in a neighborhood in Atlanta. The deadly Tropical Storm Helene is dumping devastating rains on southern Appalachia, particularly in western North Carolina, where a large dam near Asheville is on the brink of failure and officials have told residents to consider all…
Joie Henney and his emotional support alligator, Wally, were denied entry to a Phillies’ game at Citizens Bank Park on Wednesday — but hope to be invited back soon. Joie Henney An emotional support alligator walks into a ballpark … and is asked to leave. That’s the story that’s made headlines in recent days, thanks…
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