Yes, your childhood dreams are coming to life. In honor of "Force Friday," the first day toys for the new Star Wars movie are available for purchase, New Yorkers will be able to take a ride in an Uber designed to look like a Stormtrooper Hot Wheels car. … [Read more...]
Numbering of Migrants by Czechs Brings Outcry
Human rights advocates and Jewish groups expressed outrage on Thursday after the authorities in the Czech Republic wrote numbers on the skin of migrants who were pulled off trains this week, a move they said summoned memories of the Nazi era. … [Read more...]
What Khloe Kardashian Did Instead of Attending the VMAs
Kanye West was honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award at Sunday night's MTV VMAs and his wife Kim Kardashian, mother-in-law Kris Jenner and sisters-in-law Kourtney Kardashian and Kylie Jenner were there to support him. … [Read more...]
A Storm’s Brewing in the North Pacific
A storm system is brewing in the North Pacific, which will help to usher in an “Autumn-like” air mass to the Northwest later this week, and the High Plains for Labor Day weekend. … [Read more...]
The Invisible Victims Of California’s Drought
Irrigation water in California. A 17 year-old pregnant farmworker died in a vineyard of heat exhaustion in the summer of 2008 in triple-digit temperatures. The nearest water cooler was a 10-minute walk and a foreman allegedly wouldn’t let her take a break to get a drink of water. … [Read more...]
Carbon Pollution Is Expanding Global Dry Zones, as Predicted
A landmark study in the journal Nature documents an expansion of the world’s dry and semi-arid climate regions since 1950 — and attributes it to human-caused global warming. This expansion of the world’s dry zones is a basic prediction of climate science. … [Read more...]
World Stocks Gain Amid China Holiday, Dollar Falls
World stocks rose Thursday as a holiday in China gave investors a break from its torrid markets while the dollar fell on diminishing expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike this month. … [Read more...]
China Marks Japan WWII Defeat in Military Parade
China's leader presided over a parade of tanks, missiles and troops that displayed growing military might Thursday as fighter jets roared overhead, but pledged a 300,000 reduction in troops in a bid to show his country poses no expansionist threat. … [Read more...]