By Katie Frates A fatal shooting has tainted the new year for a Kansas family, and one witness account raises serious questions. Police shot and killed an unarmed Wichita man after a dispute over the weekend. Police say they shot the “belligerent” man twice when he reached for his waist, KSN reports. The police thought he had…
By Katie Frates Alaska, North Dakota and Texas face a dramatic drop in revenue heading into 2015 because of plunging oil prices, which hit a six-year low Monday. The price of oil — recently $100 a barrel — dropped below $50 a barrel Monday for the first time since April, 2009, reported The Wall Street Journal….
By Michael Bastasch Despite dire predictions that the North Pole would be ice-free in the near future, Arctic Sea ice levels have been more stable than scientists predicted. So far this winter, Arctic Sea ice levels are above where they were at the same time last winter, and are well within the the standard deviation of…
By Blake Neff Published: January 5, 2015 Rep. Louis Gohmert’s bid to unseat John Boehner as speaker of the House is a longshot, but if the Texas Republican’s campaign is a success, it could be a critical blow to the Common Core multistate education standards. Common Core was created by a consortium of several cooperating…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos After she survived a fatal plane crash, a seven-year-old girl successfully walked almost a mile through the woods in the dark to find help. Sailor Gutzler’s mom, dad, nine-year-old sister and 14-year-old cousin died when the small plane went down in Kentucky Friday night, but she made it to 71-year-old Larry Wilkin’s…
By Michael Bastasch There are now 219 months with no significant upward temperature trend, according to an analysis of satellite data, which is more than half the 432-month satellite temperature record. Climate scientists sounded the alarm last year that 2014 was on track to be the hottest year on record. The Japan Meteorological Agency, in fact, declared…
From Liveleak: A suicide bombing in Yemen’s southern city of Ibb has killed at least 33 people, medical sources say. The blast appeared to be targeted at a cultural centre where members of the Houthi rebel group were gathered for a religious celebration. The governor of Ibb was thought to be among the injured, reports…
Post by Fanpage.it. What happens when you put a boy in front of a girl and ask him to slap her? A video from Italy shows a beautiful series of interactions of young boys with a pretty girl. The interviewer asks the boys to describe the girl, who they think of as pretty. They describe…
By Jonah Bennett As e-cigarettes spread like wildfire around the country, medical experts have expressed concern about whether e-cigarettes actually discourage users from moving on to cigarettes, but a new study finds that e-cigarettes are not a gateway to regular smoking. E-cigarettes are growing rapidly among the high school population in the United States. Previous research has…
By Ivan Plis Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption has reported that 2014 saw a 10-year high in the number of “olim,” or Jewish immigrants to Israel, with 26,500 Jews moving to the country in the past year. For the first time ever, France was the largest source of Jewish migration, with 7,000 Jews making aliyah…