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U.S. Issues Severe Travel Warning For Americans Heading To Libya
Most travelers worry about passports, flights and hotel reservations before leaving the United States. Americans considering Libya are being told to think about something far more serious, including what happens if they cannot make it home. The U.S. State Department is maintaining its highest-level travel warning for Libya and telling Americans not to visit the…
Trump Puts New Mexico Under A Different Name In Latest Map
President Donald Trump has opened another unusual chapter in his campaign over American geographic names after posting a map that appeared to relabel New Mexico as “New America.” The image showed the Southwestern state with the word “Mexico” crossed out in red and replaced with “America,” prompting an immediate response from state officials and drawing…
Flight Attendant Catches Baby Midflight As Exhausted Mom Falls Asleep
A routine flight took a sudden turn when an exhausted new mother fell asleep with her baby in her lap. Moments later, the child began slipping, and a flight attendant had only seconds to react. Monique Harris, a Republic Airways flight attendant working aboard a United Airlines flight, caught the baby before the child could…
He Was Supposed To Be 107 Floors Up On 9/11. A Simple Shift Swap Kept Him Home
Sekou Siby should have been inside Windows on the World on the morning of September 11, 2001, working 107 floors above Manhattan. Instead, the 36-year-old restaurant worker was asleep beside his pregnant wife at home, unaware that a routine shift swap had placed another man in the kitchen that morning. His coworker, Moises Rivas, had…
Injured Magpie Walked Into a Couple’s Home for Help, Then Kept Coming Back
A wild magpie arrived at a South Australian riding academy with something tightly wrapped around her neck. Instead of fleeing, the injured bird moved toward the people nearby and eventually hopped through the door of their home. Marie Matter freed the magpie and released her back into the wild. The next morning, the bird was…
Tsunami of Dirt: Nepal’s Deadly Flood Began With a Mountain Giving Way
Rajendra Dawadi had roughly 900 students under his care when a mountain high above Nepal suddenly began to collapse. Within minutes, a massive mixture of ice, rock, mud, boulders and trees was racing toward communities below, transforming a remote Himalayan slope into the source of a devastating flood. Dawadi had spent years teaching inside Tribhuvan…
Scientists Built an Enzyme That Could Erase Decades of Molecular Aging
Aaron Cravens was hoping for a 20% reduction. His company had spent years chasing damage that biochemists had largely treated as permanent since the 1980s: sugar residues that gradually attach themselves to long-lived proteins in your skin, arteries and eyes. The body has no natural enzyme designed to remove them, so the damage accumulates year…
Kentucky’s Measles Outbreak Has Reached Its Highest Level in Decades
Kentucky has confirmed 29 measles cases this year, with 17 of those cases recorded in August alone. The surge has pushed the state to its highest annual total since 1991, putting renewed attention on a disease that health officials say can spread with startling speed among people who are not protected. The outbreak is now…
Italy Has Unleashed 130,000 Baby Octopuses Against an Invasive Crab Army
Italy has tried paying fishermen to catch millions of invasive blue crabs, but the invasion has continued to overwhelm parts of the Adriatic coast. Now scientists are taking a far stranger approach: releasing an army of tiny octopuses into the sea and hoping one of nature’s own predators can help restore the balance. Around 130,000…
A Teen’s Cannabis Habit Nearly Cost Him His Brain After Weeks of Vomiting
A 15-year-old boy in Georgia lost between 25 and 30 pounds in just a few weeks, and the reason was not a diet or a growth spurt. He was vomiting so often that his body began running dangerously low on nutrients, eventually leaving him with neurological symptoms that sent his doctors searching for a much…