BEIRUT / AMMAN (Reuters) – Last year, President Bashar al-Assad appeared to be on the brink of crowning military victories by easing his diplomatic isolation and recovering more from Syria without firing a bullet. FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a poster representing Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria, …

Community leaders and an activist whose brother was killed by Seattle police in 2016 are urging protesters who occupy the organized Capitol Hill protest, or CHOP, beginning Wednesday night. In a statement to “comrades in the fight” released on social media on Wednesday, CHOP organizers stated: “It is time to …

No one became seriously ill and no one died, but the incident illustrates how young people, especially college students, can quickly spread the virus among themselves and take it to the community, a team from the University of Texas at Austin reported Wednesday. The students traveled to Cabo San Lucas, …

If you saw the sunset UranusThe sky would start out as a brilliant blue and fade into deeper blues with striking turquoise notes. So how do we know that? Gerónimo Villanueva, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, visualized what the sunsets look like on Uranus (at the …

Penn State soccer writers have been warned to expect a “dramatically different” atmosphere at Beaver Stadium this fall, one in which capacity will “be drastically reduced … for security reasons.” The former Nittany Lions received the information earlier this week in a letter from Wally Richardson, the former PSU quarterback …