• 'Dinosaur highway' dating back 166 million years discovered in England

    'Dinosaur highway' dating back 166 million years discovered in England

    Jan 02, 2025 07:34 PM EDT

    LONDON (AP) — A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday. The extraordinary find made after a team of more than 100 people ...

  • Giuliani fighting to keep his Yankees World Series rings after $148 million defamation verdict

    Giuliani fighting to keep his Yankees World Series rings after $148 million defamation verdict

    Jan 02, 2025 07:21 PM EDT

    ... be yours.” Each ring was bigger and more extravagant than the last, Giuliani testified, so much so that “you'd look crazy wearing it.” Giuliani lamented that his rings didn’t bring the Yankees more success, noting their 2003 World Series loss to the Marlins and 2004 playoff collapse against ...

  • Jimmy Carter’s work promoting global public health remembered as core piece of his legacy

    Jimmy Carter’s work promoting global public health remembered as core piece of his legacy

    Jan 01, 2025 11:35 PM EDT

    Just like people have a fundamental right to access to food, water, and shelter, they also have a fundamental right of access to being free from ancient scourges, like Guinea-worm, like river blindness, like lymphatic filariasis, diseases that are not household names here in the United States, but globally ...

  • What we know about Jimmy Carter's foreign policy legacy

    What we know about Jimmy Carter's foreign policy legacy

    Dec 31, 2024 01:14 AM EDT

    ... termed the United States. For months, Carter had resisted calls to grant the shah refuge in the United States. But after learning that Pahlavi had lymphoma, Carter let him seek treatment in New York City in October 1979. On November 4, Iranian student protestors furious at this decision stormed the ...

  • After his presidency, Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease top mission

    After his presidency, Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease top mission

    Dec 30, 2024 11:22 PM EDT

    ... became the latest in May 2023 when the WHO confirmed it had ended trachoma, a blinding eye infection. Haiti and the Dominican Republic are working to eliminate malaria and mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis by 2030. Countries in Africa and the Americas are pursuing an end to river blindness by 2035.

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Biden's big moves and the Republicans’ funding fight

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Biden's big moves and the Republicans’ funding fight

    Dec 23, 2024 11:35 PM EDT

    What do you make of all of that, how that turned out and what it revealed? Tamara Keith:  One thing that I think we have talked about before is that President Trump will come in a lame-duck. That is, his term is only going to last four years. And ...

  • Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates, gives life in prison

    Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates, gives life in prison

    Dec 23, 2024 02:50 PM EDT

    ... after Election Day in November 2020 but before Trump left office the following January, the first time federal prisoners were put to death by a lame-duck president since Grover Cleveland in 1889. Biden faced recent pressure from advocacy groups urging him to act to make it more difficult for ...

  • News Wrap: French territory of Mayotte devastated by cyclone

    News Wrap: French territory of Mayotte devastated by cyclone

    Dec 16, 2024 11:50 PM EDT

    ... say that six children were among the dead. Israel claims that Hamas fighters were using the shelter as a command center. Across Gaza, Palestinian civilians, lamented the death and suffering caused by more than 14 months of war. Alaa Hamouda, Gaza Resident (through interpreter): We have nothing to do with ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on how Trump's team is preparing for his Day 1 agenda

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on how Trump's team is preparing for his Day 1 agenda

    Dec 16, 2024 11:25 PM EDT

    ... I think Trump is also different. He's coming in more confident. He knows he doesn't have that much time. He's immediately a lame-duck. He's not running again. So he has a narrow margin in the House and the Senate. He doesn't have much time ...

  • White House says Biden would veto bill expanding federal judiciary

    White House says Biden would veto bill expanding federal judiciary

    Dec 10, 2024 11:27 PM EDT

    ... issued the veto threat, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he would be curious to hear Biden's rationale for such action. “It’s almost inconceivable that a lame-duck president could consider vetoing such an obviously prudential step for any reason other than selfish spite," McConnell said.