Good thing the Abui tribe no longer headhunts. Although on Indonesia’s remote Alor island, a village elder menacingly pointed a rustic bow and arrow at me, his time-etched face stoic and his white hair capped by a candelabra-like ornament of … Continued
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Changes to the Gowanus Canal, part of a major cleanup project in the notoriously polluted waterway, are resulting in loss of mussel habitat. But community intervention could increase the Atlantic ribbed mussel population, with promising implications for the Canal’s future. … Continued
By MICHELLE L. PRICE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has called New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a “100% Communist Lunatic” and a “total nut job.” Mamdani has called Trump’s administration “authoritarian” and described himself as “Donald … Continued
By COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for the nation’s lagging academics — a solution that could free schools from the strictures of … Continued
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press Technology Writer Google will confront the U.S. government’s latest attempt to topple its internet empire in federal court on Friday as a judge considers how to prevent the abusive tactics that culminated in parts of … Continued