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Bill to make California first state to end bail before trial

The law will allow for defendants to be released after being arrested if they are deemed likely to appear for court hearings and pose little danger to the publi...

India's first manned space mission to send 3 persons

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, K Sivan, the chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation, said work on developing technology to send humans to space had s...

Two storms are threatening parts of central Ontario with Tornados

There were multiple reports of a tornado touching down as a line of severe thunderstorms fired up over northern Simcoe County. That warning ended at around 8:16...

Environment Canada issues heat warning for Toronto

Maximum afternoon temperatures are expected to reach 31°C with humidex values near 40°C. If you're already thinking ahead to your Labour Day weekend plans, En...

Air pollution linked to mental decline

The Chinese study's findings could hold true for India, where roughly 25 lakh people died in 2015 due to causes arising out of air pollution. The team's stu...

Greater Toronto Area under heat warning with hot, humid conditions until Wednesday

The dew point has climbed into the low 70s this Monday evening with plenty of haze in the air after yesterday's warm front passed through. Another warm star...

European security must no longer depend on US, France's Macron says

His departure adds to mounting problems for 40-year-old centrist Macron, who swept to power in May last year promising to solve decades of low growth and high u...

Hawaii residents brace themselves as hurricane approaches

In anticipation of the storm, Ige signed an emergency proclamation that declares certain counties of Hawaii disaster areas and allows for the spending of state ...

Now Tropical Storm, Lane Inundates Parts of Hawaii

The American Red Cross said more than 1,100 people were staying in shelters. Those outages meant the water provider on Maui's west side was unable to pump...

NASA Spacecraft Nears Asteroid

Numbering 28 in total, all of the rocket engines on the Lockheed Martin-built OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are provided by Aerojet Rocketdyne. "The spacecraft is perfo...

'NASA Selfies' and TRAPPIST-1 VR Apps Now Available

A statement by the agency said, "The NASA Selfies app and NASA's Exoplanet Excursions virtual reality app were created to celebrate the 15th anniversar...

Nasa to launch advanced Laser to track change in Earth’s ice

The satellite will follow NASA's two earlier major projects, which were intended towards monitoring the ice sheets' thickness as well. The high-tech satel...

YouTuber 'McSkillet' and two others killed after wrong side motorway crash

Mrs Pizarro was a marriage and family counsellor and Aryana was due to start seventh grade on Monday, Dominic told the San Diego Union Tribune . While news o...

Lane weakens into tropical storm, still threatens Hawaii with rain

Forecasts called for Lane, which peaked as a Category 5 hurricane earlier in the week, to diminish into a tropical storm by Sunday. The Coast Guard had ordere...

Astronauts Play Cosmic Tennis Match to Kick off US Open

So they wanted to attract the attention of tennis players to the problems of space exploration. Fuestel, his wife and his two sons all play tennis. Feustel and ...

ESA's new Aeolus satellite will measure winds worldwide

The CCD69 ultraviolet detector was developed in collaboration with Airbus Defence & Space and ESA, simultaneously measuring the distance of the returned ultravi...

Early Turtles Had Beaks, but Not Shells

But this fossil discovery is filling in more than one gap. The evolution of turtles into their modern form which fused a shell to their skeleton and a beak-...

Scientists confirm water ice has been spotted at the moon's poles

For the first time, ice water has been directly observed on the surface on the Moon . The discovery has been made by data acquired by the Moon Mineralogy Ma...

Hunter protesters: 'Nobody is above the law'

The area will be hard to pry away from Republican control, but in a sign of the Democrats' determination, top strategist Joe Trippi - whose advice helped De...

New research suggests evolution might favor 'survival of the laziest'

In any ecosystem, success is relative . A recent study found people who scored high on a scale for how much they daydream were brighter - and less physically...

Hurricane Lane sparks state of emergency in Hawaii

The powerful cyclone is threatening to make landfall Thursday, with sustained winds reaching up to 230 kilometres per hour, making this storm potentially the la...

Woman 'loses her NASA internship' following a profanity-laden tweet

Rather than taking his advice, Naomi, who didn't know who he was, crudely answered: "Suck my d- and b-- I'm working at NASA ". The exchange, reportedly captu...

Hurricane Lane threatens direct hit on Hawaiian islands; residents urged to prep

Pacific island state, triggering flash flooding and landslides, the National Weather Service (NWS) warned. Torrential downpours from Hurricane Lane are so...

Canada MP Maxime Bernier quits Conservatives to form new party

Maxime Bernier criticised the Conservative Party for turning their backs on his recent comments about diversity and his stance on supply management. Bernier s...

Category 4 hurricane with 130 miles per hour winds nearing Hawaii

That intensity could make the hurricane the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii since Hurricane Iniki in 1992, the AP reported . - Torrential downpours f...

In the Arctic began to melt the oldest glacier

We have seen several headlines over the Arctic that say either it's melting at an unimaginable pace, or global warming has created way for the ships to take the...

Big Island feels the effects of approaching hurricane

The last major storm to hit was Iniki in 1992. Check back here for the latest coverage. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Administrator Tom Travis said there...

Flushed contact lenses are big source of microplastic pollution

Some 45 million Americans wear contact lenses . The researchers say they would like the contact lens industry to address this problem by placing labels o...

EPA Announces Replacement to Obama's Clean Power Plan

An EPA statement calls the Obama plan "burdensome". During the conference, Wehrum also suggested that the new rule would keep the US on track to reducing ...

Tracking Lane: Major hurricane targets Hawaiian Islands

A hurricane warning is in effect on Hawaii's Big Island and Maui, while a hurricane watch has been issued for the island of Kauai. Meteorologist Gavin Shige...