NEW YORK (North American Times) — You can see right through this little aquarium fish from Thailand: Its skin is almost completely transparent. But when the light hits it just right, its body flickers with shimmering rainbow colors.,Now, scientists have figured out how this fish — called the ghost...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — More than 9,000 California residents were under evacuation orders Friday as a new atmospheric river brought heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds, swelling rivers and creeks and flooding several major highways and small rural communities.In Santa Cruz County, a creek...
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon was taking a major step Friday in its pioneering of legalized psilocybin therapy with the graduation of the first students trained in accompanying patients tripping on psychedelic mushrooms, although a company’s bankruptcy has left another group on the same path adri...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A child marriage bill was passed by the West Virginia Senate on Friday night after it was changed to prohibit anyone younger than 16 from getting married and to ban age gaps of more than four years for 16- and 17-year-olds.The Senate passed the bill on a 31-1 vote. It now...
AUSTIN, Texas — Three women in Texas are being sued for wrongful death by a man who claims they helped his now-ex-wife obtain medication for an abortion. It’s another test of state-enforced bans since the U.S. Supreme court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision.In a lawsuit filed late Thursday...
The first conflict to be covered by photojournalists brought home to Americans the utter horror of the Civil War.Photos showing battlefields littered with corpses shocked the nation in ways that it had not experienced before, as only those who actually did the fighting knew of war’s horrors, for th...
TALLAHASSE, Fla. — Less than a year after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an expected GOP presidential contender, signed a ban on abortions after the 15-week mark of pregnancy, he’s showing support for an even stricter ban introduced this week by state lawmakers. His position could have imp...
NEW YORK — In the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump’s lawyer tried to buy the silence of a porn actress who said she had a sexual encounter with the Republican during his days as a reality TV star.More than six years later, New York prosecutors appear to be close to...
MONTEREY, Calif. — The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart , who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O’Keefe rejected defense motions to toss out Paul Flores’...
On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines.The virus appears here to stay, along with the threat of...
