A sweeping red-rock cliff at Utah’s Zion National Park is now the home of a new California condor chick as the species makes a comeback in the wild three decades after they were on the brink of extinction, biologists have confirmed. The chick is believed to have hatched in early May on the cliffs just […]
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Red Bull driver Pierre Gasly was fastest in first practice for the British Grand Prix as Romain Grosjean crashed his Haas in the pit lane. Grosjean span out of control on the pit lane exit at Silverstone on Friday morning and lost his front wing. In front of his home fans, Formula One championship leader
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WASHINGTON — When Senator Bernie Sanders brought his presidential campaign to Pittsburgh earlier this year, he quietly added a poignant stop to his schedule: a visit to the Tree of Life synagogue, where 11 congregants were killed in an anti-Semitic shooting last fall. But his appearance also came with explicit instructions to his campaign aides,
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Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar (KLOH’-buh-shar) has a new plan to help seniors that includes more support for people with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers. It’s an issue that’s personal for the Minnesota senator, whose 91-year-old father is in a memory care facility. The plan includes new funding for Alzheimer’s research and aims to develop
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Image copyright Getty Images R. Kelly is in custody after being arrested in Chicago on sex trafficking charges, according to reports in the US. There are said to be 13 charges against the singer, including child abuse images and obstruction of justice, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago. The 52-year-old was arrested by
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Egypt’s matches at the Africa Cup of Nations were watched by huge crowds. But the women’s national team hasn’t played a game since 2016 and is now unranked by Fifa. But these three Egyptian footballers told BBC News Arabic why are fighting for proper recognition of the women’s game in their country and hope to
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[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] Everyone, it seems, wants to go the moon now. In January, Chang’e-4, a Chinese robotic spacecraft including a small rover, became the first ever to land on the far side of the
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For Viv Kean, and thousands of tennis fans like her, the Wimbledon experience always starts in a tent. In a small park across from the tournament grounds, they gather to camp out for days. The reward is being woken up at 5 a.m. by stewards, then spending hours standing patiently in line to get herded
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SZOLNOK, Hungary — Secretive, behind-the-lines mission rehearsals and other operations by 1,400 American and allied commandos to combat shifting Russian threats have laid bare a fundamental tension in the Trump administration: While the president courts Moscow, much of his government considers it an increasingly dangerous foe. Just days before President Trump made light of Russia’s
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It’s still the world’s “freest” economy, one of the biggest global financial centers and a scenic haven for tycoons and tourists, but the waves of protests rocking Hong Kong are exposing strains unlikely to dissipate as communist-ruled Beijing’s influence grows. The end of the former British colony’s 50-year grace period after China took control in
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