“I believe these folks deserve a second chance,” President Obama said in a recent White House video concerning 46 prisoners all serving at least 20 years. Some of them were even given life sentences. “I believe that, at its heart, America is a nation of second chances, and I believe these folks deserve their second …
NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered evidence of a continental crust similar to Earth’s on Mars. A paper published in Nature Geoscience documented the analysis of around 20 rock samples; many of the rocks in the Gale Crater, Curiosity’s landing site, were found to have a similar composition to rocks found in Earth’s continental crust. Though further study …
People in the state of Tennessee can now legally break into a hot car to rescue an animal trapped inside, thanks to a new law that took effect July 1, 2015. The Tennessee Legislature amended the state’s “Good Samaritan Law,” which allowed residents to break into hot cars to save young children. The law comes …
Malala Yousafzai celebrated her 18th birthday on Sunday by opening a school in Lebanon, near Syria’s border, for Syrian refugee girls. The school is being supported by the Malala Fund, Yousafzai’s non-profit organization. According to the fund, the new school will welcome 200 girls aged 14 to 18. At the opening, Yousafzai gave a speech, …
Police say two men in Clewiston, Florida used a backhoe to steal an ATM machine from a CenterState Bank in Winter Haven. The two men were able to dislodge the ATM machine and managed to load it into their getaway truck, however they didn’t make it far. The duo was pulled over a short time later after …