On this day, April 9 … 2019: Attorney General William Barr reveals that he is reviewing the “conduct” of the FBI’s original Russia investigation during the summer of 2016, following calls from Republicans to investigate the origins of the probe. Also on this day: 1865: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at ...

An international team of researchers in South Africa has discovered that our ancestor Homo erectus is older than we thought. An excavation at Drimolen near Johannesburg uncovered the remains of a hominin, a prehistoric ancestor sometimes described as a “ghost species” of humans. “During our field school excavations at Drimolen, a student began uncovering a cluster of fragments. We could ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic across the developed world includes cutting into the financial lifelines for people across the global south. The World Bank estimates that a record $529 billion was transferred to developing countries through official channels in 2018, the latest year for ...

Rob Lowe is getting in on the “Tiger King” phenomenon after numerous Hollywood standouts have expressed interest in portraying the big cat wrangler — and the actor just might have the best shot at making it happen. On Monday, Lowe said that he and “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy would be “developing our own version of this insane story,” and ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A 16-year-old Maryland high school student disappointed that his lacrosse season was canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic is on a mission to help small rural hospitals that desperately need supplies, and he is using his flying experience to do so. TJ Kim, a sophomore at ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. They may be behind bars but inmates at one prison in California are doing their part to help their community with a needed item in the coronavirus pandemic. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday on Facebook that inmates from the South Placer Jail’s sewing and laundry programs ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. With the novel coronavirus upending normalcy as we know it from an everyday-routine standpoint, the entertainment and show business industries are keeping fluid with developments surrounding the stay-at-home orders currently in effect in numerous states and around the world. Incorporated into the routines of millions ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.  Sign up here. San Francisco police last week issued their first citation to a person violating a shelter-in-place order: an 86-year-old anti-abortion protestor, according to a report. Police cited Ronald Konopaski Thursday outside a Planned Parenthood near Bernal Heights, the San Francisco Examiner reported. A woman wears ...