Sheri Schiess and her late husband, Boyd, worked for 14 years to preserve their 25.5-acre farm in Nibley, Utah, as development expanded around it (Image Credit: Brock Marchant/ The Salt Lake Tribune) A stretch of green farmland surrounded by growing communities can look increasingly out of place, but one Utah couple spent years ensuring their…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recounted a Donald Trump story amid ongoing trade tensions. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has revealed an unusual gift he received from US President Donald Trump in 2015 — a large gold key that Trump told him could be used to enter the White House. But there was a catch,…

Praadhyumn Indaana, the 17-year-old Montvale, New Jersey student (Image Credit: Davidson Institute) A better understanding of how much heat a nuclear reactor can safely handle could have implications far beyond a single engineering calculation. For 17-year-old Praadhyumn Indaana of Montvale, New Jersey, that challenge became the focus of an eight-month research project combining physics and…

The Los Angeles County Fire Department’s search-and-rescue K-9 has already proven himself a valuable addition to the team, helping to find three people alive in earthquake debris. When disaster strikes, concrete dust and debris cover everything in sight, and finding someone alive can seem an almost impossible task. That impossible task is what Joey, a…

Trump administration spent $9.5 billion paying federal workers to do absolutely nothing, watchdog report says. The Trump administration spent an estimated $9.5 billion paying federal employees who were on administrative leave in 2025, as it moved to significantly reduce the size of the federal workforce, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.About $6.7…

FILE PHOTO: A billboard with a picture of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad shows damage by bullet holes, in Damascus, Syria, December 16, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo Syria’s parliament voted on Wednesday to abolish a counter-terrorism court established during the reign of former President Bashar al-Assad and nullify the legal effects of its rulings.The counter-terrorism court was…