When Brooks Entwistle started making plans to climb Mount Everest this spring, he had one big question for his expedition leaders: Would it be okay to show up late?
The rugged isle of Redonda belongs to Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean country best known for its namesake islands. Redonda, just one mile long, is home to seabirds, reptiles, rodents, and a herd of long-horned goats.
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Mount Everest climbers are reporting that the Hillary Step, a chunk of rock just below the mountain’s summit, is gone. Named after Edmund Hillary, who made the first successful ascent of Everest in 1953 with Tenzing Norgay, the vertical outcrop was considered the last great hurdle for mountaineers to get over before stepping foot on the summit.
Donald Trump became US president by telling voters he wanted “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering” the country. “I think Islam hates us,” he said. Trump also repeatedly criticized president Barack Obama for not using the specific terms “radical Islam” and “radical Islamic terrorists,” suggesting that the articulation of those words was key to keeping America safe.
US president Donald Trump is traveling with a full entourage on his first overseas trip, a whirlwind tour of five countries—starting in Saudi Arabia, to make “big [business] deals” with the gulf kingdom and deliver a speech about Islam.
Apple is reportedly working on a “super secret” medical project: building sensors to monitor blood sugar levels without piercing the skin.
Several people traveling aboard a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville on Sunday have shared disturbing video footage of a fellow passenger being pulled off the plane against his will.
The vaquita porpoise is an adorable but elusive creature. The smallest of cetaceans at just four or five feet long, the friendly-looking mammals swim exclusively in the Gulf of California, off Mexico’s Pacific coast. It’s also the most endangered species of porpoise: In 2014, biologists estimated there were just 97 individuals left in the wild, and the population has declined by a precipitous 40% each year since then. This year, the US Navy started training dolphins to locate the last two or three dozen surviving vaquitas, with the goal of relocating and breeding them in captivity. A group of international conservation advocates had decided that keeping the species alive in captivity—a practice that many marine mammal advocates disdain as cruel—was preferable to letting it die out in the wild.
The FBI has arrested a 31-year-old former Intercept reporter for some of the recent bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the US. He allegedly made the threats to harass a woman he once dated.
The Department of Homeland Security has concluded that citizenship is an “unlikely indicator” of whether an individual poses a terror threat to the US, according to a draft report obtained by the Associated Press.
An orca named Tilikum lined SeaWorld’s pockets for decades as a star performer in the marine park’s “Shamu” shows before ultimately dragging its reputation, and the future of those shows, underwater.
FBI director James Comey lit a political fire yesterday (Oct. 28) when he notified Congress that the bureau had discovered new emails tied to its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Word of Comey’s action quickly spread after Republican representative Jason Chaffetz, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, tweeted a missive declaring, ”Case reopened”—although technically, the FBI investigation was never closed.
This post has been updated with a comment from the director of the American Alpine Club and additional details about the search process.
The American University of Afghanistan was attacked on Wednesday evening in Kabul. Eyewitnesses described an explosion followed by gunshots as some students attempted to escape the scene while others hid in classrooms. Dozens of people had been at the university participating in evening classes.
A gunman shot and killed two police officers and a sheriff’s deputy near the police department’s headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 17. Law enforcement officials believe that the only shooter is dead, according to a press conference with Louisiana State Police superintendent Mike Edmonson.
In the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative America meeting in Atlanta on June 14, former US presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter sat together on stage. Carter outlined his post-presidency activities, most notably the creation of the Carter Center and the many aid and research projects he’s conducted with it since, and Clinton praised the 91-year-old Carter for his lifetime commitment to public service.
“It is a disgrace that in the world’s second-largest economy, we let our children be the poorest group of citizens. And the younger they are, the poorer they are,” Marian Wright Edelman said on stage at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 14.
An emerging theme at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America meeting is entrepreneurship—specifically, the idea that more of it would be good for the US, but it still appears to be reserved for upper middle-class white men. So how to encourage women, minorities, and underprivileged youth to take the startup route? And what roadblocks do they face?
I met Mel Southworth at on April 26, 2015, at Everest Base Camp, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake had rocked Nepal and sent an avalanche crashing through our city of tents underneath the world’s highest mountain. Southworth was surveying the damage at Base Camp for the first time; she had been in a nearby village, preparing to climb, when the quake struck the day before.
A burger restaurant in Lithuania has become internet-famous for a brilliant piece of political graffiti. Keulė Rūkė, a casual eatery in the capital city of Vilnius, has decorated its storefront with a mural of Russian president Vladimir Putin kissing Donald Trump.
Even before the Zika virus became a public health emergency, and Brazil its ground zero, there was controversy over safety at this summer’s Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.
When ”Finding Nemo,” the Pixar Animation Studios movie about a young clownfish, became a box office hit in 2003, sales of orange-and-white striped clownfish multiplied at pet stores and aquariums around the world. People wanted their own Nemos.
The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle may be the world’s most popular gun, but its manufacturer has struggled to turn profits in recent years, especially in the face of western sanctions imposed on Russian exports in 2014.
