What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., but the one behind bars in five Empire State prisons. The privately funded Bard Prison Initiative is putting...

See amazing views of colliding galaxies NGC 520 and barred galaxy IC 4212 in imagery from the Siena Galaxy Atlas.



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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred Chinese immigration into the United States, the first time the U.S. government had barred an ethnic group, leading to decades of injustice.

Why did Isambard Brunel name his ship after Great Britain? Because Kingdom was his middle name! I forgot to work that one into the script but couldn't let it go to waste. Beyond having a mouthful of a name, Isambard just seems to enhance...

How do they hurt the economies doing the sanctioning? What is the difference between economic sanctions and regular old trade restrictions?

What Can Go Wrong? Ultimately, will the sanctions

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This show explores the fascinating features of the universe, the different types of galaxies in our solar system and the position of our solar system in the Milky Way Galaxy. Other terminology includes: constellations, spiral galaxy,...

A school district is forcing an eighth-grader in Mesa, Arizona, to take a $1,500 genetic test or he must play with with the girls' basketball team. (Scripps News Group)

Ivory Coast’s PDCI-RDA and Gbagbo’s PPACI rally after exclusion from election, fuelling unrest fears as Ouattara seeks fourth term. Watch to know more updates!

Polls open in Rwanda's presidential and parliamentary elections with Paul Kagame seeking to extend his 24-year rule.

Students barred from graduation for protesting Gaza genocide, celebrates at alternative ceremony, defying university's attempt to silence.

Trump, sons fined millions and banned from running NY businesses for inflating property values; Trump plans to appeal.

A popular political leader is in jail and his party is banned from using one of their most recognizable symbols after authorities cracked down in Pakistan. Many analysts say Thursday will bring the country’s least credible election in...

Jill Wine-Banks, a former assistant Watergate special prosecutor and MSNBC analyst, says 'neither the language nor the past usage of the [14th] Amendment requires a criminal conviction.'

Israeli forces have stormed Islam's third holiest site - Al-Aqsa Mosque - for the second night in a row.

Unvaccinated workers above the age of 50 in Italy will not have access to their workplace from Tuesday.

United Russia — the political party that supports President Vladmir Putin — celebrated victory in parliamentary elections, amid a widespread political crackdown and reports of vote-stuffing.

Israel's military says it has identified the body of Muhammad Sinwar, the head of Hamas' armed wing, about three weeks after he was said to have been killed in an airstrike.

A party official from Ivory Coast's opposition Democratic Party has confirmed on Wednesday that party leader Tijane Thiam as well as three other leading candidates were removed from the final version of electoral lists. The presidential...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has slammed US President Donald Trump for supporting far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has been barred from holding public office after being found guilty in an embezzlement case...

The leader of France’s far-right National Rally party Marine Le Pen has been given four years in jail and barred from running for office.

Elon Musk has called for the impeachment of federal judge Paul Engelmayer following a ruling on Saturday morning that restricts his Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems.

The orders include reinstating discharged troops, ending DEI policies and updating transgender service member guidelines. (Scripps News)

Irish teacher Enoch Burke, accompanied by his sister Ammi and mother Martina, reads out a statement outside the Four Courts, after a High Court judge “emphatically rejected” the accusations emailed in by Mr Burke that he had been...

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