The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Trump administration, former USAID disaster-response chief Jeremy Konyndyk suggested on Saturday.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.

According to official figures only 1,811 cuttlefish turned up to mate this year, down 97% on last year.

A truck carrying an estimated 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer was stolen in California in what may be the biggest beer heist ever.

Zachary Anthony Klein, a Lufkin police officer, faces charges after an affidavit alleged he used a Flock license plate reader to track people.

The Homeland Security Department has said Yiannopoulos, British conservative commentator and website editor, was issued a final removal order last month and will be deported from the U.S.

Statewide prosecutors wanted Caruso, a former state lawmaker, to remain in jail but failed to convince the judge, who set bond at $160,000.

This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.

The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.

When fully grown, the octopuses that survive could eat up to four blue crabs per day in the Mediterranean Sea

The Bigfin squid Magnapinna spp. is elusive and rarely encountered, yet its charismatic morphology of large fins and extraordinarily long tentacle filaments makes it an instantly recognisable deep-sea genus by both scientific and non-scientific audiences. The striking visual imagery of in-situ observations has resulted in as many records being published online via social media as they are in the scientific literature. Here we collate all known sightings of Magnapinna spp. across all reporting formats. In total we collated 46 individual sightings that includes 15 from the Gulf of Mexico (32.6%), ten from the Indian Ocean (21.7%), ten from the Atlantic Ocean (21.7%), nine from the Pacific Ocean (19.6%), and two from the Caribbean Sea (4.3%). Nineteen of these observations (41.3%) were published in eight scientific papers, while the remaining 27 (58.7%) were reported in online video repositories, news articles, social media posts or other online outlets. There were no reports...

Documents concealed under a protective order for years are now public, and attorneys say they prove that State Farm was running a scheme that profited $1.4 billion through underpaying and denying wind and hail claims. “They are explosive. They are historical. They prove everything we said was true,” Reggie Whitten, the co-founder of Whitten Burrage law firm, said. Whitten Burrage is a firm that has represented, and continues to represent, State Farm policyholders in these lawsuits. “I think every customer of State Farm that wants to know why they didn’t get paid, they can read these and see why; it is because they initiated a scheme,” Reggie Whitten said. A Comanche County judge recently de-designated 31 documents that State Farm attorneys previously fought to keep concealed through a protective order.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says that U.S. demands to curtail his nation’s French-language identity were a nonstarter.

Pittsburgh had a hell of a winter storm in January, with more than a foot of snow, and freezing temperatures that created towering walls of ice and annoyed locals whose parking situations wouldn’t return to normal for a month. Some of the city's oldest buildings suffered the most damage, victims of a phenomenon known as ice damming. The warmth from a building rises to the snow banks on the roof, but it's only enough to defrost the bottommost layer, which then flows to the eaves and then re-freezes, creating a trapped reservoir of snowmelt that penetrates cracks and crevices, and flows into the walls to create conditions for mold. Ice damming alone caused millions of dollars' worth of damage in Pittsburgh, but perhaps nobody in the city felt as targeted by thermodynamics as Naomi Ruiz, a conservator currently working on some priceless and suddenly damp treasures at St. Nicholas Croatian Church. "I had, like, just gotten back home [to Europe] when they sent me a picture," Ruiz says, pointing up toward the corner of the Church's arched ceiling. Even from down here, I could see the intersection of the balcony and the wall was stripped of paint and had the unmistakable flaky look of water damage. She sighs as she remembers the sinking feeling. "That was the spot I'd spent a bunch of time fixing just before leaving." Naomi specializes in the painstaking process of preserving art in aging churches. It's much more complicated than simply putting a fresh layer of paint over the water damage or scrubbing candle soot from the walls. At St. Nicholas, Naomi is tasked with conserving internationally renowned—and uniquely provocative—murals painted by the Croatian artist Maxo Vanka. Upon entering the church, which is in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh but just across the Allegheny River in the borough of Millvale, new visitors can be overwhelmed by the images on display, with some breaking down into tears; I've seen it. These aren't traditional church images. In 25 murals completed just before and during World War II, Vanka applied the visual language of Catholicism to the horrors that fascism had inflicted on his homeland. On a ceiling panel at the back of the sanctuary is a painting of Christ on the Cross, His eyes bulging with pain as a soldier wearing a World War I–era helmet drives a bayonet into his side. Across from them is another soldier, with a subtle wound of his own appearing in the same place. The depiction of Jesus stands out by itself: His eyes are not complacent or knowing but panicked, and His skin has taken on the greenish hue of a person suffering from poison gas.

Wandering gliders are descended from some of the earliest known insects – and breed as one global population

The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in a case over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be implemented before the fast-approaching midterm elections.

A little while ago, I came up with the idea that that the difference between Italian Fascism and German Nazism was that Fascism essentially had “Jock-Douche” vibes while Nazism had “Creep-Loser” vibes. Now, I’m going to try to develop this fancy into a full-blown (or rather, half-baked) theory.

A new report from St. John's Community Health and other organizations says people who live and work near the site of a massive warehouse fire in Boyle Heights could face severe and worsening health risks.

I'm angry. I hate writing when I'm angry. I think it makes me too emotional, too attached to copy and most importantly makes my brain move too fast having ideas pop up and die before I can even get them down on the page... Olympic sport bodies have largely fallen in line with the new IOC party line that "sex assigned at birth" is how athletes should be categorized, and that "open" gender competition should be offered should transgender athletes not feel comfortable competing in events that don't match their current sex. Professional sports in the United States has largely stayed out of this eligibility mess because let's face it, trans people in the U.S. face too much systemic barriers to become professional athletes. There's only been a handful of transgender Olympic athletes, and all but one competed in events for their birth sex and have delayed hormone replacement therapy to continue their athletic careers. As someone who delayed HRT for over a year for personal medical reasons I can tell you that doing so is absolute hell. This matters because the WNBA continues to be in an endless news cycle about transfeminine athletes. I'm not going to recount all the details of how we got here, but in the last few days two sports opinion writers felt emboldened to talk about how they wished they could write columns about, and offer support for each other. Now two people do not make an industry, but the support that these men are receiving online is disheartening in the sense that it appears there are more people in the sportswriting industry that share the same views. I would not be surprised if we see similar columns come out in the next few days or weeks. There's never been a trans woman who played in the WNBA. There may never be one. But, there is an entire media ecosystem now devoted to the idea that the specter of trans women taking over women's sports is just one misguided policy away. And that the brave heroes pointing this out against the "outrage mob" are the ones saving women's sports.

The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter.