Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic
An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice ...
Italy’s Meloni hopes to attend Trump inauguration as she downplays his Greenland and Panama comments
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said Thursday she didn’t believe President-elect Donald Trump actually intends to use military ...
Senate Democrats face early test with vote on Laken Riley Act
Democrats will face an early test on how to navigate immigration under President-elect Trump on Thursday when the Laken Riley Act becomes the first bill to hit the Senate floor. The bill, which ...
Democrats warn party must look beyond ‘blue wall’ to win
When Democrats lost the White House in November, and watched the Senate flip and the House remain in Republican control, they immediately set their sights on the next fight in 2028. But some ...
Immigration firebrand takes reins of the Hispanic Caucus
Latino Democrats, under new management for the 119th Congress, are looking to flex their muscle under a razor-thin Republican House majority that could make or break President-elect Trump’s ...
Gaza’s Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll from the war has surpassed 46,000
More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday, as the conflict raged into a 16th month with no ...
South Korean lawmakers seek independent probe as Yoon’s lawyers warn detention may spark ‘civil war’
South Korean opposition parties introduced a bill Thursday calling for an independent investigation into impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief martial law ...
Mozambique opposition leader returns from self-imposed exile as police fire tear gas at supporters
Mozambique’s main opposition leader returned from self-imposed exile on Thursday clutching a bible and saying he still ...
Pope asks aide to deliver his annual foreign policy address, tells ambassadors he’s battling a cold
Pope Francis told ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on Thursday that he wasn’t up to delivering his annual foreign ...
Filipino Catholics pray for good health and peace in huge procession venerating Jesus statue
Hundreds of thousands of mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Thursday in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue of ...
USTR warns of risks from online pharmacies in its ‘notorious markets’ report
Nearly all of the world’s 35,000 online pharmacies are being run illegally and consumers who use them risk getting ineffective or dangerous drugs, according to the U.S. Trade ...
Concern over potential San Diego Unified housing development in Serra Mesa
As San Diego Unified works toward its goal of building more affordable housing for employees on district-owned sites, neighbors in one community have some concerns about what more development ...