The first two Muslim women in Congress sharply criticized President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a trip to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories was canceled once the two lawmakers were denied entry for supporting a boycott of Israel. At a news conference in Minnesota on Monday, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar…… MORE
Within the Atlantic Ocean is the world’s only sea without shores, its borders defined by the currents of the North Atlantic gyre. The Sargasso Sea takes its name from sargassum, a free-floating golden brown seaweed that is a haven for hatchling sea turtles and hundreds of other marine species who use it to feed, grow…… MORE
Billie Eilish has knocked Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” from the No. 1 atop the Hot 100. Eilish’s “Bad Guy” rose from No. 2 to No. 1, finally toppling the country rap song featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, which had a record-breaking 19-week run at the top of the Hot 100. “Bad Guy” is the…… MORE
Determining how to prevent mass shootings in the United States has been a complicated debate, but there’s new evidence that one intervention could play a role in reducing the violence: “red flag” orders. Extreme risk protection order laws, colloquially known as “red flag” or ERPO laws, allow the temporary removal of guns from people deemed…… MORE
For people with very high triglycerides, doctors generally recommend exercise and dietary changes, and if that doesn’t work, statins, fibrates or niacin. But a new advisory from the American Heart Association says that prescription omega-3 fatty acids can help reduce very high trigylceride levels by 20 to 30%, and the medications can be used safely…… MORE
Author Marianne Williamson pledged Monday to remove a portrait of President Andrew Jackson from the Oval Office if elected president, calling the portrait’s current placement “one of the greatest insults” to Native Americans. “We will begin by taking that picture of Andrew Jackson off the wall of the Oval Office,” the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate…… MORE
Authorities found a backpack holding an incendiary device and items that could be used for an abduction beneath the vehicle of a retired administrator killed on the campus of California State University Fullerton. The unidentified victim, in his late 50s, had multiple stab wounds and was found inside the vehicle on a campus parking lot,…… MORE
Jeffrey Epstein signed a will two days before his death, according to The New York Post, which obtained the document. The will was dated August 8 — two days before Epstein was found dead by suicide in a federal jail in New York, according to The Post. Court papers list assets of about $577 million.…… MORE
Last year, a nearby rocky world was spotted by NASA’s planet-hunting telescope TESS. Now, astronomers have been able to observe the planet using the Spitzer Space Telescope, taking a closer look at this intriguing world. The planet, called LHS 3884b, is 49 light-years away in the Indus constellation, orbiting a cool M-dwarf star that’s only…… MORE
The New York Times Magazine’s new 1619 Project is a special edition that reframes American history around one date: August 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on America’s shores. “The Fourth of July in 1776 is regarded by most Americans as the country’s birthday,” says an introduction on the Times’ website. “But what if…… MORE
