Virginia Commonwealth University will spend $3.6 million on a memorial for dozens of people, most of African descent, whose bodies were stolen from their graves, dissected by medical students and then dumped in a forgotten well. The Richmond school’s board of visitors voted Friday to fund what VCU calls the East Marshall Street Well Project, …
Speculation about links among a handful U.S. scientists who have died or disappeared in recent years was largely confined to niche online communities less than two months ago. As of Friday, the number had grown to at least 12 and was at the epicenter of U.S. government, with both the FBI and Congress investigating possible …
April 24 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, called for the resumption of talks to secure a rapid, sustainable agreement to the Middle East crisis, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. A statement said the ministers, in a telephone call, “expressed their shared …
By Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay ReporterSATURDAY, April 25, 2026 (HealthDay News) — When your belly is full, your brain tells you to “stop eating.” But how that signal works is more complex than scientists have understood — and they hope their discovery that it comes from an unexpected source could lead to new treatments for …
April 25 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian drone hit a multi-storey apartment building in Russia’s fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, the regional governor said on Saturday, in the first attack on the city since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. There were no fatalities but some people suffered minor injuries and one woman was hospitalised, the governor of …
April 25 – The United States has agreed to modify its sanctions on Venezuela to allow the South American country’s government to pay Nicolás Maduro’s defense lawyer, backing off a restriction that had threatened to derail the drug trafficking case against the ousted Venezuelan president, a court filing showed on Friday. Maduro, 63, and his wife …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former reality television star is in the sixth year of his presidency. His Cabinet includes a former wrestling executive along with a onetime “Real World” cast member who was filmed decades ago dancing in nothing but a towel. More than a half-dozen stars from the “Real Housewives” franchise just swung through …
New York filed a lawsuit Friday to challenge the federal Transportation Department’s decision to withhold nearly $74 million in highway money because the state refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit uncovered problems last year. New York joins California in suing over Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s efforts to …
Oz Pearlman, the entertainer at this year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner, said he never had any doubt that Donald Trump would attend the annual gala scheduled for this Saturday – the first in either of the president’s terms to which he accepted an invitation. “When I was booked, … they said to me, ‘It’s …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Army major employed as a nurse on a military base near Washington, D.C., has been charged with conspiring to provide financial and tactical support to separatist fighters in his native Cameroon, according to court records unsealed earlier this week. Maj. Kenneth Chungag, a nurse who lives and works on Fort …