World Jan 20 Rescuers search for survivors after avalanche hits hotel in central Italy Officials estimated 30 people were inside the mountainside hotel when an avalanche swallowed the resort Wednesday afternoon. Ten survivors have been located so far.
Science Dec 13 Bill Gates and top investors launch $1 billion clean energy fund The Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, which Bill Gates will chair and run with a host of other high-profile investors, is focused on clean energy technology.
Science Dec 01 UK adopts unprecedented electronic surveillance bill. Could the U.S. be next? The United States could look to the United Kingdom's new Snoopers Charter as a model for expanding electronic surveillance, experts say.
Health Nov 28 Texas reports possible local transmission of Zika virus “We knew it was only a matter of time before we saw a Zika case spread by a mosquito in Texas,” said Dr. John Hellerstedt, Texas Department of State Health Services commissioner.
Nation Nov 16 Columbia sidelines wrestling team over racist, sexist group messages The conversations, in the app GroupMe for the Class of 2017, showed homophobic, racist and misogynistic comments going back as far as 2014, Bwog reported.
Nation Nov 15 Facebook, Google take aim at fake news by blocking ad revenue Facebook and Google banned fake news sites from collecting funds via their advertising networks on Monday.
Science Nov 12 An epic supermoon is on the horizon Look up early next week, and you will see a supermoon at its closest in a generation.
Nation Nov 07 After 'scouting report' scandal, second Harvard men's team found rating female athletes' looks Harvard’s male cross country team used spreadsheets to discuss members of the women’s cross country team, sometimes using sexually explicit language, the school's newspaper discovered.
Nation Nov 04 Harvard cancels men's soccer season after players sexually rated female athletes Harvard University's men’s soccer team, which currently sits in first place of the Ivy League, will forfeit the rest of its games this season.
Nation Nov 04 New York City defied national trends, cut incarceration rate in half, study finds New York City’s incarceration rate fell by more than 50 percent over the last two decades, even as the national incarceration rate rose, a new study reports.