(Ogden) AP- The president of Weber State University has announced a $10 million scholarship initiative will soon be accessible for students encountering financial difficulties. Standard-Examiner reported that President Brad Mortensen made the announcement Tuesday at his inauguration ceremony as the university’s 13th president. University officials say the scholarship was designed to provide support to students […]
When a man spewed anti-Semitic slurs and spat on her face, Shoshana Blum remembered her ancestors who survived the Holocaust, and instead of looking down - she defiantly stared at him eye to eye.
A California teenager who survived nearly 30 hours alone in the snowy Utah mountains says he kept himself awake with phone alarms, built a snow cave for shelter and held a special beaded bracelet to keep his hopes up.
Confusion is growing around a series of mysterious deaths and the disappearances of a 7-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl that tie back to a couple who have since vanished themselves.
Thunderstorms and showers have brought some relief for firefighters battling deadly wildfires across Australia’s drought-parched east coast. But the storms have also raised concerns that more fires will be sparked by lightning strikes when hot and windy conditions return.
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NASSER KARIMI, AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
Iran has struck back at the United States for killing a top Revolutionary Guard commander, calling it revenge for the U.S. killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. U.S. officials say Iran fired a series of ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing American troops.
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A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people has crashed just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital's main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields of flaming debris and killing all on board.
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By NASSER KARIMI, AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
Iran state TV says Tehran has launched "tens" of surface-to-surface missiles at Iraq's Ain Assad air base housing U.S. troops over America's killing of a top Iranian general.
NEW YORK (AP) — New technology. Same furry faces. When Apple was thinking about what kind of children’s TV programming it wanted on its new streaming service, it doubled down on two multi-generational crowd-pleasers — Snoopy and “Sesame Street.” Apple TV Plus has carved out prominent roles for Charlie Brown’s floppy-eared beagle and for puppets […]
A potentially ground-breaking lawsuit is being filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., against the Boy Scouts of America. It seeks to establish Washington as a venue for men across the U.S. to sue the Scouts for allegedly failing to protect them from long-ago sexual abuse by scout leaders.
The CES gadget show this year is all-in on surveillance technology — from the face scanner that will check in some attendees to the cameras-everywhere array of digital gadgets.
Civil rights groups and lawmakers want answers after reports that dozens of Iranian-Americans were questioned at the border as they returned to the U.S.
The U.S. military says that Al-Shabab extremists overran a key military base used by U.S. counterterror forces in Kenya, killing three American Department of Defense personnel and destroying several U.S. aircraft and vehicles before they were repelled.
Amid new gadgets and glitz, the CES tech show in Las Vegas will also offer a look at how we'll be watching TV as it stampedes further onto the internet.
In a letter to Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will introduce and vote this week on a war powers resolution to limit Trump’s military actions regarding Iran. On Sunday, Trump reiterated his controversial view that cultural sites in Iran can be targeted if Iran carries out its threat to retaliate for the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
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