China to send giant pandas to Atlanta again
BEIJING (AP) — Atlanta will have giant pandas again. China on Friday announced it will send two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta in the U.S., in Beijing’s latest efforts of panda diplomacy despite tensions with Washington, and
Corpse abuse cases force changes on Colorado’s scandal-plagued funeral industry
DENVER (AP) — A former funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies faces sentencing Friday for corpse abuse in a case that forced Colorado officials to clamp down on an industry plagued
A tiny Arctic village in Alaska is trying to revive its polar bear tourism industry
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of the continent, far above the Arctic Circle, to feast on whale carcasses left behind by hunters
Democrat Josh Shapiro tests political muscle in swing-state Pennsylvania’s midterms
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) — Josh Shapiro may be heavily favored to win reelection as Pennsylvania governor, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot on the line for him this year. Shapiro, who is just beginning
At least 10 injured after tornadoes hit northern Oklahoma, local media reports
April 23 (Reuters) – At least 10 people were injured after tornadoes hit northern Oklahoma on Thursday, KOCO News, an affiliate of ABC News reported. According to the report, emergency crews were conducting search and rescue operations
Trump to deliver remarks to crypto conference on Saturday, White House says
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver remarks to a cryptocurrency conference on Saturday in Palm Beach, Florida, the White House said late on Thursday. • An upcoming major cryptocurrency
Key takeaways from a report into the deadly plane crash at LaGuardia Airport
Federal investigators on Thursday detailed a series of issues and failures that led up to last month’s deadly collision between a regional jet and a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. According to a preliminary report
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool gets a blue coating as Trump tackles renovation project
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is having the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in “American flag blue,” covering up a decades-old granite surface that he said was “leaking like a
Trump’s ‘gold card’ visa starting at $1 million granted to just 1 person so far, White House says
President Donald Trump’s “gold card” visa, where a foreigner can shell out at least $1 million to legally live and work in the U.S., has been approved for one person, said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday —
‘Two ways of calculating’: Trump defends his mathematically impossible calculations on drug prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, who helped push the term “ fake news ” into the mainstream, now seems to have a new favorite subject: fake math. During a Thursday event announcing a deal with drugmaker