New Folding Phones Are Already Breaking

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:08:26 CDT

Some of Samsung's new, almost $2,000 folding phones appear to be breaking after just a couple of days. Journalists who received the phones to review before the public launch say the Galaxy Fold screen started flickering and turning black before completely fizzling out, the AP reports. Two journalists say...

Naval Academy Transgender Ban Starts in 2020

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:39:41 CDT

President Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military is beginning to take effect at the US Naval Academy and other military institutions. The Defense Department confirmed to the Capital Gazette this week that the Naval Academy will stop accepting transgender students as of 2020, but those enrolled for...

Saudi Runaway Sisters Plead for Help on Twitter

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:36:00 CDT

Two Saudi sisters appealed for help Wednesday from the former Soviet republic of Georgia after fleeing their country, in the latest case of runaways from the ultra-conservative kingdom using social media to seek asylum. Using a newly created Twitter account called " GeorgiaSisters ," they identified themselves as Maha al-Subaie, 28, and...

Feds Give Up the Ghost on Standard Oil Breakup

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:20:00 CDT

After more than a century, the Justice Department is dropping its effort to break up Standard Oil. A federal court was asked Tuesday to toss out the decree that required John D. Rockefeller to give up control of 37 subsidiaries that helped his company monopolize the oil industry, the Wall...

29 Dead in Tour Bus Plunge

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:50:00 CDT

A tour bus carrying German tourists crashed on Portugal's Madeira Island on Wednesday, killing 29 people and injuring 28 others, local authorities said. The bus, which was carrying 55 people, rolled down a steep hillside after veering off the road on a bend east of the capital, Funchal, and struck...

Justice Is Telling Trump Lawyers the Big News

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:20:00 CDT

President Trump may not be too surprised by what's in the soon-to-be-released Mueller report. Turns out the Justice Department has discussed it several times with White House lawyers, in effect helping them plan a counter-attack against Robert Mueller's findings, insiders tell the New York Times . Meanwhile, Attorney General William Barr...

NK Test-Fires New Weapon

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:50:00 CDT

North Korea announced that it has test-fired a new type of tactical guided weapon, the AP reports. The Korean Central News Agency says Chairman Kim Jong Un observed the firing of the weapon Wednesday by the Academy of Defense Science. The agency reports that Kim said "the development of the...

Scientists Make History With Work on Dead Brains

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:20:00 CDT

Scientists say they've managed to revive cellular activity in a group of dead brains—a development that could lead to new health treatments and even blur our notions of life and death, the New York Times reports. In Nature , a Yale University team says they obtained freshly decapitated pig heads...

One Punch Kills Doctor, Brings 10 Years in Smoking Quarrel

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:50:00 CDT

A May 2017 confrontation over smoking in a non-smoking area outside a Melbourne, Australia, hospital resulted in the death of a cardiothoracic surgeon and a minimum 10-year sentence for the man who killed him with a single punch. Joseph Esmaili became the first person to be sentenced under Victoria's one-punch...