Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration’s efforts to remove immigrant Guatemalan and Honduran children from US
Trump threatened Portland with troops to quell protests. The mayor says it’s not needed
President Donald Trump has threatened sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests
Indictment charges church leaders with swindling millions in military benefits
Federal prosecutors have charged the leaders of a church with congregations in five states with swindling millions of dollars in educational benefits from military service members
Trial date for suspect in Florida State mass shooting postponed until next year
The trial of the Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding six others in a mass shooting on campus in April has been postponed until next year
Historically Black colleges issue lockdown orders, cancel classes after receiving threats
At least six historically Black colleges and universities received threats or “potential” threats Thursday, prompting lockdowns and class cancellations
Nasa blocks Chinese nationals from working on its space programs
Move comes amid escalating anti-China rhetoric under Donald Trump’s administration Nasa has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programs, underscoring the intensifying space race between the the US and China. The policy shift was first reported by Bloomberg News and confirmed by the US government agency....
Fiji ant study provides new evidence of insects’ decline on remote islands
DNA analysis of endemic specimens in museums finds 79% of ant populations in Pacific archipelago are shrinking Island-dwelling insects have not been spared the ravages of humanity that have pushed so many of their invertebrate kin into freefall around the world, new research on Fijian ant populations has found. Hundreds...
Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants
Court declined preliminary injunction in case brought by scientists seeking to halt purge of more than 1,600 grants The Trump administration can go ahead and purge more than 1,600 research grants issued by National Science Foundation (NSF) worth more than $1bn, after a judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction...
Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find
Creatures favour front arms for most tasks, study suggests, despite fact all eight arms are capable of all actions While some humans find they have two left feet on the dancefloor, octopuses manage to coordinate eight highly flexible arms across a host of behaviours, from foraging to den-building, or moving...
Interstellar overhype: Nasa debunks claim about alien-made comet
Nasa dismisses theory by Harvard astronomer who suggested an object from beyond the solar system could be a relic from a distant civilization Skywatchers at Nasa have discounted a Harvard astronomer’s hypothesis that a rare interstellar object hurtling through our solar system is a relic from a civilization in another...