Zahra Billoo, CAIR official, called the lawsuit misguided and said the participation of the students in that field trip was voluntary. Two Jewish parents, three former Jewish students, a Hindu parent and a Zoroastrian parent have sued Palo Alto Unified School District and Palo Alto High School principal Brent Kline after the students were encouraged…
Members of the Four Paws animal welfare organization load a tiger onto a truck for its transfer Thirty lions and tigers that spent years in cramped concrete cages at a shuttered zoo in Argentina have begun a long journey to new homes at wildlife sanctuaries in South Africa and the United States.The big cats were…
Firefighters carry their equipment as they attempt to extinguish a wildfire on a peatland field in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Muhammad Hatta) Orangutans rescued from wildlife traffickers face a new threat from the record number of fires that have broken out in Indonesia in recent weeks. According to a report…
Archaeologists find the earliest physical evidence of brass-making in East Asia in southern China (PC: Cambridge University Press) A set of ancient crucibles found in Guangzhou is giving archaeologists new clues about how brass-making technology may have reached medieval China. The vessels came from an official metallurgical workshop at the Royal Palace of the Nanyue…
Zohran Mamdani speaks Bengali while announcing Broadway free tickets. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stunned viewers by speaking in Bengali while announcing more than 2,000 free Broadway tickets for the city’s high school students, with the tickets to be distributed through a lottery.The programme, launched in partnership with the Theater Development Fund (TDF), will…
Eastern box turtle (Image Credit: Canva) Finding a turtle nest in the wild is far more difficult than it sounds. Smithsonian researchers studying Eastern box turtles in Virginia have been using a combination of technology and surprisingly simple tools to locate nests and understand what happens to the eggs after they are laid. Their unusual…
Mojtaba Khamenei (left) and Donald Trump (right). (Photo: ANI) US President Donald Trump on Monday said that preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon remains his top priority, as the 60-day deadline under the June US-Iran memorandum of understanding expired without a permanent peace agreement.In a post on X, Trump said, “The number one Goal…
(Image Credit: Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office via FOX 10 Phoenix) An 88-year-old Arizona man and his dog spent an entire night stranded in a remote part of Yavapai County after their vehicle became stuck in thick mud following recent monsoon storms. The man had been travelling on a back route between Carefree and Bloody Basin…
Photo credit: Facebook/Dendermonde Local Police For a student with a summer job working on a Belgian building site, “money down the drain” has taken on a whole new meaning. Excavating the trenches for a sewage system, 18-year-old Kobe stumbled across a hidden trove of gold worth an estimated €9 million (£8 million). According to a…
Cuban responded to one of Herres’ posts on LinkedIn Payton Herres was 11 when she received a donated heart in 2012. Fifteen years later, at 26, she was fighting to access the anti-rejection medicine that helps keep her donor heart working, with her case eventually reaching billionaire Mark Cuban.Herres, now 26, was born with Ebstein’s…
