SAN FRANCISCO — She was a self-described “adrenaline junkie,” and he took “wow-worthy photos” of the couple posing at the edge of cliffs and jumping from planes that appeared on social media and a travel blog that attracted thousands of followers. In one post at the Grand Canyon […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Latest on the crash of a Lion Air passenger plane in Indonesia (all times local): 4 p.m. The head of the National Transportation Safety Committee, Soerjanto Tjahjono, says pings detected at sea in the search for a crashed Lion Air plane are definitely from […]
Thousands of police guarded the world’s biggest statue ahead of its inauguration by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday with local people threatening protests over the enormous figure. Activists said about a dozen of their leaders had been detained ahead of the spectacular opening of the 182-metre […]
CHICAGO (AP) — It was launched decades ago as an anesthetic for animals and people, became a potent battlefield pain reliever in Vietnam and morphed into the trippy club drug Special K. Now the chameleon drug ketamine is finding new life as an unapproved treatment for depression and […]
ISLAMABAD— Pakistan’s top court on Wednesday acquitted a Christian woman who was sentenced to death in 2010 on blasphemy charges, a landmark ruling that could ignite mass protests or violence by hard-line Islamists. Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar announced the verdict to a packed courtroom and ordered Asia […]
The Parker Solar Probe now holds two records: Closest approach to the sun by a spacecraft and fastest human-made object relative to the Sun. Since its launch on Aug. 12 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, the probe has passed Venus and is heading closer to the Sun. In all, the […]
Notorious Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead Tuesday one day after being transferred to a federal prison in West Virginia, federal officials said. Unnamed sources told the Boston Globe that a fellow inmate with ties to the mafia killed Bulger. Federal investigators were probing the death. “The […]
A study in Britain found no benefits to prescribing drugs for patients with low-risk mild hypertension, contrary to U.S. medical groups’ new guidelines. Researchers from the University of Oxford, Cambridge University and the University of Birmingham came to that conclusion after studying the records of 38,286 patients collected […]
Raytheon and the U.S. Navy successfully linked a Marine Corps F-35B with the USS Wasp, allowing for sharing of information on targets, mission assignment and aircraft status. Raytheon’s Ship Self Defense System created the first-ever digital air connection between a U.S. Navy ship at sea and a U.S. Marine […]
The population of the world’s vertebrates — including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians — has dropped 60 percent over the past 40 years and the rate of extinction is 100 to 1,000 times higher because of “human pressure,” according to a new study. The World Wildlife Fund, or […]
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