An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday. Scientists observed Rakus the orangutan pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia
Almost a year later, the U.S. military has concluded that an airstrike last May in northwestern Syria killed a civilian, instead of a senior al Qaeda leader, as it initially claimed. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) released a summary Thursday of its investigation into the May 3, 2023 strike saying the investigation found the strike killed
President Biden’s campaign is launching a new seven-figure ad buy Thursday centered around abortion, a centerpiece issue for his campaign, as it attempts to link restrictive state abortion bans to former President Donald Trump. It will run on the two-year anniversary of the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion on the Dobbs case, which
Washington — Actor Halle Berry joined a group of bipartisan senators on Thursday to announce new legislation to promote menopause research, training and education. “I’m here because I’m standing up for myself. Because I know that when a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women,” Berry said. “And all women go
President Biden on Thursday said “order must prevail” on college campuses, as some of the pro-Palestinian protests have turned violent, insisting it’s his responsibility to protect the “rule of law” as much as freedom of expression. But Mr. Biden told reporters Thursday that “no,” the National Guard should not intervene on college campuses. He also
Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York urged the judge on Thursday to penalize the defendant for more alleged violations of a gag order limiting what he can say about those involved in the case. At a contentious hearing with Trump looking on, lawyers from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office
On the night before he was first elected to Congress in August 2022, Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan, flanked by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and other campaign supporters, was delivering the final speech of his campaign. His address was very different than what he might have imagined it would be a few months earlier.