Hundreds of high-school students, some chanting "Black Lives Matter," walked out of school in Berkeley, California, on Thursday and marched to a nearby campus to protest a threatening and racist message left on a school computer, police said, (...)
A party thrown by a group of visiting Irish college students turned tragic early Tuesday when the fifth-floor balcony they were crammed onto collapsed, resulted in the death of six people and seven seriously injured, AP reported.
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An apartment building balcony collapsed early Tuesday in California, killing five people and leaving eight others injured, police said.
Many of the injured have critical, life-threatening wounds, said officer Jennifer Coats, a spokeswoman with the (...)
Hundreds of protesters angered at the killing of unarmed black men by white police officers marched through downtown Berkeley streets for a fourth straight night, briefly blocking traffic on a highway and delaying metro and train services, AP (...)
Students at medical schools around the United States planned "die-ins" to protest the chokehold death by police of an unarmed black man and New York activists demanded the city take action after a grand jury declined to indict the officer involved, (...)
In older adults, memories may get stuck in part of the brain due to the poor quality of sleep and are then overwritten by new memories, UPI quoted U.S. researchers as saying.
Senior author sleep researcher Matthew Walker of the University of (...)
based Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company, and Amyris Biotechnologies, with a 43-million-dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that has made the battle against malaria one of its most important (...)