Spear points, hammer stones and picks lost to history under layers of leaves, roots and rocks — it was the evidence Scott Ashcraft was looking for. The ancient tools were inadvertently unearthed in 2021 by a bulldozer fighting a wildfire along a steep slope in western North Carolina. Ashcraft, a career U.S. Forest Service archaeologist, […]

LONDON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist who has spread misinformation on vaccines, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the United States’ top health agency. Below are comments from scientists, public health experts and market analysts: DR KRISHANTHI SUBRAMANIAM, LECTURER […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration officials are working against the clock doling out billions in grants and taking other steps to try to preserve at least some of the outgoing president’s legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. “Let’s make every day count,” President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation […]

(Reuters) – U.S. envoy for Japan Rahm Emanuel is considering a run for chairman of the Democratic National Committee(DNC), Axios reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter. The current DNC chair Jaime Harrison is not expected to seek renomination when the party holds a leadership vote early next year, Reuters reported […]

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate is expected to be sentenced Friday to life in prison. Samuel Woodward, who is now 27, is scheduled to be sentenced in a Southern California courtroom for the murder of Blaze […]