Science Alert, by Kristin Houser: On Monday, Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported that He Jiankui, the researcher responsible for creating the world’s first gene-edited babies, had been sentenced to three years in prison on the charge of illegally practicing…

NPR, by Bill Chappell: Australia’s southeast was already dealing with the terrible effects of historic bushfires and huge smoke clouds. Then Canberra, Melbourne and other places were hit by golf-ball-sized hail that destroyed car windshields, killed birds, and shredded the…

NBC News, by Reuters: Desert locusts are destroying tens of thousands of acres of crops and grazing land in Somalia in the worst invasion in 25 years, the United Nations food agency said on Wednesday, and the infestation is likely…

End of the American Dream, by Michael Snyder: There certainly hasn’t been a lack of seismic activity so far in 2020. Just a few days ago, I wrote about the horrific earthquake swarm that Puerto Rico is currently experiencing. More…

The Epoch Times, by Juan A. Lozano: Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and into the Midwest were blamed in the deaths of at least 11 people on Jan. 11, including two first responders, as high winds,…

Daily Star, by Steve Warren: You can file this one in the “you have got to be kidding me” file. We wish we were. But it looks like 2019 will go down in the history as the year the drag…

Daily Star, by Henry Holloway: Russia’s top general has warned a big war is coming in a chilling prediction amid ongoing tensions with NATO. Valery Gerasimov, the chief [of] Vladimir Putin’s general staff, has said he believes the West are…

Fox 4 News, by Colleen Killingsworth: Some diseases and infections have made an alarming comeback in the past decade, such as measles—which many health officials believed could have been eradicated with proper public health measures. Here’s a look at five…

The Mercury News, by Nasser Karimi, Amir Vahdat, and Jon Gambrell: Iran struck back at the United States early Wednesday for killing a top Revolutionary Guards commander, firing a series of ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing…

AP, by Danica Coto: A 5.8 magnitude quake hit Puerto Rico before dawn Monday, unleashing small landslides, causing power outages, and collapsing some homes, as well as a famed tourist attraction. It was one of the strongest quakes yet in…