A new study has discovered a link between staying up late at night and having a higher body mass index (BMI) in teenagers. Specifically, the findings show that teens who go to bed late on weeknights are more likely to gain weight compared to those who go to sleep earlier. This late-bedtime link remained consistent […] More
A keyless ignition is that push button in your car that starts the engine instead of turning a key. It’s a feature that’s standard equipment on many new vehicles, but consumer safety advocates say keyless ignitions could pose a danger if you walk away with the fob and forget to turn off the car. Most […] More
Barack Obama put words to the desperation of millions of Americans – and the despair of the rest of the world – following the aftermath of another mass shooting that occurred at a school in Oregon on Thursday, the latest of nearly 1,000 since his re-election in 2012. According to President Obama, “This is a […] More
Hours after Pope Francis left New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport for Philadelphia, a man armed with a knife breached security hoping to “give the pope his business card,” prosecutors said. Chris Cannella, 39, a retired New York City firefighter, was driving a black Chevy Tahoe — similar to Secret Service cars — and […] More
Twenty-four people from the arts and sciences have won this year’s “genius grant” awards from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The prize comes with $625,000 over the next five years that can be used any way the recipient likes. The winners are: —— Patrick Awuah, 50, Accra, Ghana. An educator and entrepreneur […] More
Lawyers for a Virginia serial killer asked a U.S. judge to halt his scheduled execution on Thursday, arguing that one of the drugs to be used might not work. Attorneys for the inmate, Alfredo Prieto, 49, argued that pentobarbital, the first drug to be administered in the three-drug lethal injection, lacked a sterility test. Prieto, […] More
Hackers broke into a server and made off with names, driver license numbers, and other personal information belonging to more than 15 million US consumers who applied for cellular service from T-Mobile. The breach was the result of an attack on a database maintained by credit-reporting service Experian, which was contracted to process credit applications […] More
A gunman killed at least 13 people and wounded as many as 20 at a community college in southwestern Oregon, according to law enforcement officials. The first 911 calls reported a shooting at 10:38 a.m. Pacific. Police said the gunman was killed. He was 20 years old. A 20-year-old man went on a shooting […] More
Scientists have for the first time confirmed liquid water flowing on the surface of present-day Mars, a finding that will add to speculation that life, if it ever arose there, could persist now. That represents a shift in tone for NASA, where officials have repeatedly played down the notion that the dusty and desolate landscape […] More
A mother-of-five made £1.5million running a high-class escort agency with former TOWIE star Maria Fowler on its books while claiming £117,000 in benefits and tax credits, a court heard. Janine Adeleke, 42, claimed state handouts while running agency Carltons Of London from her seaside home Bexhill-On-Sea, East Sussex. One of her children was sent to the […] More