Jose Antonio Penas Artero (NEW YORK) — A new species of dinosaur has been identified more than a decade after a large number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain — and researchers expect more species to be discovered. The discovery was made at the Lo Hueco fossil site nearRead More →

Google Maps Street View (NEW YORK) — A New York City teacher was struck by a stray bullet on the eve of the first day of school while setting up his classroom, police said. The bullet flew through the window of the sixth-floor classroom, striking the 33-year-old teacher in hisRead More →

Elliott Kaufman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City is implementing a new Black Studies curriculum in its public schools from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 as students return this week. “This is not a curriculum about a particular racial group, necessarily, but about the history of inequality and stratification hierarchyRead More →

Megan Varner/Getty Images (WINDER, Ga.) — Joshua Maloch thought his Georgia high school was holding an active shooter drill when an alarm went off Wednesday morning alerting a school lockdown. “We all had to get into the corner of my class and duck down,” the 10th grader at Apalachee HighRead More →

Megan Varner/Getty Images (WINDER, Ga.) — Two students and two teachers were killed in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday morning, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Another nine victims were taken to hospitals with injuries, the GBI said. The suspect — 14-year-old ColtRead More →

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination as the first Black and Asian woman nominee for U.S. president “gives a lot of people hope” that greater equality of opportunity is possible. “I know a little bit about being aRead More →

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of more than 30 current and former Republican officials filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday condemning a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming medical care for trans youth. “States have no business overruling the decisions of fit parents who makeRead More →

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a sweeping crackdown Wednesday on dueling efforts by the Russian government to influence the upcoming 2024 election through covert networks aimed at spreading disinformation to American voters. For months, the Biden administration has been publicly warning of Russia’s efforts toRead More →

Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Though Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced last month he was suspending his struggling independent campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump, voters in many states are still likely to see him on their ballot this fall. Announcing his decision in Phoenix, Arizona, Kennedy said thatRead More →

Grace Cary/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While polling sites around the country are gearing up for huge voter turnout on Election Day, data and experts predict that a majority of the votes that will decide this year’s key races will be cast months before. In fact, many of those votes couldRead More →