A magnitude 5.3 earthquake was reported Thursday afternoon off the coast of California near Los Angeles.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake struck approximately 35 miles southwest of Channel Islands Beach at about 12:30 p.m. local time. No injuries were reported in the immediate aftermath of the tremor,...
The report, which was published April 3 by the CDC, is the result of CDC testing of "5,776 isolates of antibiotic-resistant germs from hospitals and nursing homes," CNN reported. The tests found that one in four of the sampled germs "had a gene that helped spread its resistance," and...
A commercial Dragon spacecraft glacially approached the International Space Station on Wednesday, allowing a robotic arm controlled by Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai to reach out and grapple the supply ship as it soared 250 miles over Africa, completing SpaceX’s 14th mission to the research complex, and the second by...
It seems like a straightforward question: Is the U.S. Postal Service making or losing money on its package delivery contract with Amazon — you know, the one President Trump can’t stop tweeting about? To answer it, all you need to do is start with the Postal Service’s revenues from...
Panera Bread this week became the latest company hit by a data breach, acknowledging that customer information was vulnerable on its company website for at least eight months.
The records belonged to customers who had registered for the MyPanera program to order food online. The details exposed included their names,...
The cream-soaked, free-bread-basket excesses of fancy “Italian” dining of the past few decades have given pasta a bad name—one that Big Pasta has invested serious money into trying to expunge.
Pasta is a processed carbohydrate, a category that also encompasses such dietary villains as white bread, canned fruit, and anything...
China on Tuesday condemned the U.S. announcement of tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports and said it would "take corresponding measures of equal scale and strength against U.S. products."
"The Chinese side strongly condemns and firmly opposes the unfounded Section 301 investigation and the proposed list of products...
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acknowledged for the first time that cellphone surveillance equipment may have been deployed in the nation’s capital by foreign actors seeking to track cellphone and potentially intercept calls and messages.
In a March 26th letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon,...
This week, following three days of live-broadcast peer review sessions, experts concluded that a pair of federal studies show “clear evidence” that cell phone radiation caused heart cancer in male rats.
This substantially changes the debate on whether cell phone use is a cancer risk. Up until this point, the...
