Rescued African lion Hercules roars in his sleep, in this video from The Wild Animal Sanctuary, Colorado. Hercules lives in a 20 acre habitat and sometimes dreams that he is defending his territory. During these dreams Hercules gives impressive roars to show his power. Credit: YouTube/The Wild Animal Sanctuary
A panel of lawmakers dismissed on Monday an ethics complaint against Speaker Dean Plocher, breaking from a Republican who argued that Plocher used his power as the House leader to block an investigation. Members voted 7-2 to dismiss allegations against Plocher for misuse of taxpayer dollars, using his influence to push a pricey contract with a company with ties to his employer, and retaliating against staffers who raised complaints. “From the outset of this investigation, I’ve maintained my innocence,” Plocher told reporters after the hearing.
The Biden administration plans to require that all new cars and trucks come with pedestrian-collision avoidance systems that include automatic emergency braking technology by the end of the decade.
Five Republican-led states have sued the Biden administration over its new rules expanding Title IX to protect transgender students.
Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that its first-quarter operating profits had risen nearly tenfold year-on-year -- a 931.8 percent increase -- amid recovering chip prices and growing demand.However, the semiconductor market had been predicted to recover this year and grow 11.8 percent, according to industry monitor World Semiconductor Trade Statistics.
House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed to pass a major foreign aid package over the objections of hardline conservatives. Now, the Louisiana Republican will have to face the fallout.
Jareh Sebastian Dalke was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison.
Republican legislators narrowly failed again Monday to enact a broad package of tax cuts over Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto, making it likely that lawmakers would end their second annual session in a row without major reductions. The state Senate voted 26-14 to override Kelly's veto of a package of income, sales and property tax cuts worth about $1.5 billion over the next three years, but that was one vote short of the necessary two-thirds majority. Three dissident Republican senators joined all 11 Democratic senators in voting no, dashing GOP leaders' hopes of flipping at least one of them after the House voted 104-15 on Friday to override Kelly's veto.
SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it expected demand for artificial intelligence to hold strong in the second half, driving sales of memory chips and tech devices, as it reported a more than 10-fold rise in first-quarter operating profit. The South Korean company's memory chip sales nearly doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier as prices rose steeply from a severe downturn, thanks to the boom in AI. "In the second half of 2024, business conditions are expected to remain positive with demand - mainly around generative AI - holding strong, despite continued volatility relating to macroeconomic trends and geopolitical issues," Samsung said in a statement.
Interviews with nearly two dozen young Latino students on college campuses in battleground states revealed many are uninterested in backing the two main candidates.
Andrea Vidaurre, a 29-year-old community organizer, wins the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work protecting the predominantly Latino community she grew up in from rampant air pollution.
Cicadas' cycles of emergence may be affected by climate change, scientists say. But much about the insects remains mysterious.
Washington State Patrol said four zebras were on their way to Montana when they escaped as the driver of their trailer stopped to secure the vehicle.
A former National Security Agency employee who sold classified information to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian official was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in prison, the penalty requested by government prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore said he could have put Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, behind bars for even longer, calling the 262-month sentence “mercy” for what he saw as a calculated action to take the job at the NSA in order to be able to sell national security secrets. Dalke's attorneys had asked for the Army veteran, who pleaded guilty to espionage charges last fall in a deal with prosecutors, to be sentenced to 14 years in prison, in part because the information he sold in 2022 did not end up in enemy hands and cause damage.
A man who kicked a bison in the leg was then hurt by one of the animals in Yellowstone National Park, according to park officials. Park rangers arrested and jailed him after he was treated for minor injuries. Park rangers got a call about the man allegedly harassing a bison herd and kicking one of them about seven miles (11 kilometers) inside the park's west entrance on April 21.
Tank Dell, a wide receiver for the NFL’s Houston Texans, was wounded Sunday in a shooting in Sanford, Florida that injured 10 people.
The United States on Monday implored all countries supplying weapons to Sudan’s warring parties to halt arms sales, warning that history in the vast western Darfur region where there was a genocide 20 years ago “is repeating itself.” U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters after an emergency closed meeting of the U.N. Security Council that El Fasher, the only capital in Darfur not held by paramilitary forces, is “on the precipice of a large-scale massacre.”
Voters rank the economy ahead of other hot button topics as one of the most important issues ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Student demonstrators at Columbia University, the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted at US colleges, began to be suspended on Monday after defying an ultimatum to disperse.A few hours later, Columbia vice president of communications Ben Chang said the university had "begun suspending students as part of this next phase of our efforts to ensure safety on our campus."
Matt Gaetz is the latest House Republican who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker to draw a primary challenger in the 2024 elections.
The cause of the train derailment between the Arizona-New Mexico state line is currently under investigation by the Federal Railroad Administration.
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