December 9, 2023
Vladimir Putin on Friday moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win. Putin still commands wide support after nearly a quarter-century in power, despite starting an immensely costly war in Ukraine that
READ MOREThe United States on Monday charged a former ambassador to Bolivia with spying for Cuba for over 40 years, in what the Justice Department described as one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the U.S. government by a foreign agent. Victor Manuel Rocha, who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002,
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A dramatic rescue was seen in Chennai, India, on December 4, amid what one local official said was the worst rain to hit the city for 70-80 years. Footage from the Greater Chennai Police shows a man being pulled by a rope from a deep hole at a construction site as floodwater pours in. The
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Two US men imprisoned for decades in separate cases were exonerated after their convictions were found to be flawed and overturned by New York courts. Two US men imprisoned for decades in separate cases were exonerated on Monday after their convictions were found to be flawed and overturned by New York courts, prosecutors said. The
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A night of torched vehicles and shop looting sparked in Dublin after a knife attack outside a school was of an “extraordinary” level of violence unseen in decades. A night of torched vehicles and shop looting sparked in Dublin after a knife attack outside a school was of an “extraordinary” level of violence unseen in
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That is the finding from a CDC report released this month. Mortality rates fell by 24% between 2001 and 2021. Specifically, the cancer death rate for youth ages 0–19 years was 2.75 per 100,000 in 2001, but decrease to 2.10 per 100,000 in 2021. The analysis uses data including (i)
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Deaths among young cancer patients are on the decline, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Center of Health Statistics. In the year 2001, the overall cancer mortality of people under 20 years of age was 2.75 per 100,000 people, for a total of 2,226 deaths. In the
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The old carriage works in Swindon once churned out rolling stock for Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway, dubbed “God’s Wonderful Railway” after it opened in 1843. Nearly 180 years later, the vast sheds house pods for innovators and start-ups straining to pull the town out of a two decades-long investment slump and into the
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An expedition through an Indonesian mountain range led to researchers capturing rare video of an endangered species that hasn’t been spotted in over 60 years. Researchers with Expedition Cyclops were able to capture the first-ever photographic evidence of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a critically endangered egg-laying mammal, in Indonesia, according to a report from NBC News.
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Nearly every US-born baby has blood drawn to check their risk of more than 60 rare diseases within hours of coming into the world. What many parents may not know is that these DNA samples can be stored in a government lab indefinitely, allowing law enforcement access to blood for investigations into a child’s relative. A
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