With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves A Tennessee school district has banned Roots , the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Knox county schools (KCS) took that step under a state law that has disappeared hundreds of titles from school libraries and alarmed advocates of free expression. Continue reading...
DHS purchased this warehouse in Social Circle, Ga., to use as a detention facility.
One square centimeter of a death cap mushroom, also called Amanita phalloides, can contain enough toxin to be fatal.
Gov. Jared Polis' controversial commutation follows a pressure campaign by the Trump administration to free Tina Peters, an ex-county official who was convicted of tampering with election equipment. (Image credit: Scott Crabtree)
Mitchell Gaff during his sentencing Wednesday in Everett, Wash.
NBC News · Oct 8
Experts recommend using products like mosquito dunks and plug-in traps to get rid of mosquitoes.
NBC News · Oct 8
The field heads into the first turn during the 150th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md. on May 17, 2025.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Prosecutors have described fatal shooting outside of DC’s Capital Jewish Museum last year as calculated and planned The US justice department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum, prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday. Elias Rodriguez faces federal hate crime and murder charges in the killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as they left an event at the museum last May. Rodr
NPR News · Oct 8
The hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has potentially exposed passengers to a deadly disease. Most returning Americans are now housed in Nebraska. Some may be cleared to quarantine at home. (Image credit: Dylan Widger)
