Todd Blanche confirmed as as US Attorney General/Image: ANI Todd Blanche, who previously represented Donald Trump in criminal and federal cases, has been confirmed as the US Attorney General after a narrowly split Senate vote.Blanche secured the position by 50-49 early Saturday, becoming the head of the Justice Department after months of questions from lawmakers…
PC: David Santiago Garcia/Aurora Photos/Getty Images At first glance, the Río Tinto in southwestern Spain looks almost unreal. For around 50 kilometres, the water flows in shades of deep red and orange that seem more fitting for an artist’s palette than a natural river. Yet its extraordinary appearance is not the result of artificial dyes…
File photo: Houses covered in snow are seen on the coast of a sea inlet of Nuuk, Greenland (Picture credit: AP) A US oil company with links to people in President Donald Trump’s political circle has begun moving drilling equipment ashore in Greenland’s remote Jameson Land region, despite not having received approval from the local…
The Hanging Coffins at Sagada, PC: Palu Malerba Scattered across remote cliff faces in southern China, wooden coffins have hung suspended for centuries, wedged into rock crevices or resting on driven wooden stakes hundreds of feet above the ground. Who built them, and why they chose height over a conventional grave, remained an open question…
Image Credit: Facebook/@WCBM 680 Ten-year-old Herbie Martin IV from Maryland has turned a late-night baking effort into a remarkable achievement after his lemon blueberry buttercream cake sold for $15,000 at the Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair’s charity cake auction. According to The Baltimore Sun, Martin stayed up until 2 a.m. perfecting the cake before…
The bill also bars the Trump administration from shifting federal funds to the Border Patrol from other programmes. The US Senate on Saturday passed a temporary spending bill to keep the federal government funded through December 11, in a bid to avoid a shutdown ahead of the November midterm elections.The bill passed 90-6, with one…
Representative Image of a radio-quiet mountain town where wireless signals are heavily restricted (AI-generated image) In the mountains of eastern West Virginia sits Green Bank, a town of roughly 150 people where using a cell phone, running a Wi-Fi router, or operating a microwave near the town centre is not just impractical; it is against…
Representative Image of daily life on a bustling Kinshasa street amid fast-paced urban expansion (AI-generated image) Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is expanding faster than almost any other city on the African continent, yet that growth has coincided with falling living standards for the overwhelming majority of its residents. According to…
In northeastern Spain, the spread of zebra mussels continues to baffle water management experts, keeping them on alert over the damage to water infrastructure caused by these invasive species. Their presence in reservoirs, irrigation canals and water distribution networks has begun to disrupt water supplies, especially in Catalonia’s Lleida province, as per a report by…
Representative Image of Antarctic firefighters working in harsh conditions at McMurdo Station (AI-generated image) Antarctica holds roughly 75 per cent of the planet’s fresh water, locked away as ice, yet the continent is technically classified as a desert, and that combination makes fire one of the most serious hazards facing the people who live and…