Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell The Associated Press Published 1:31 PM EDT July 13, 2020 TEHRAN, Iran: A misaligned missile battery, miscommunication between the troops and their commanders, and a decision to fire without authorization led the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to shoot down a Ukrainian plane in January, killing all …

My 10-year-old son’s sizzling, empty cough lasted for a weekend. He showed no other symptoms, and his chest barely bounced as he turned his head to point at his sleeve. It was early March and reports of an outbreak seemed distant, in Washington state and abroad. We convinced ourselves that …

Credit: Unsplash / CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at the Lyell Center in Edinburgh have developed a way to use mathematical formulas to help predict when an earthquake is likely to occur. In his article published in Geophysical Research Review: Solid Earth, the group describes the translation of …

The Patriot League will not play sports in the fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. In Monday’s announcement, the league also said a decision on winter sports will be made at a later date and that practice, conditioning and strength training will be allowed if “health and safety conditions support …

Millions of countries around the world are calling on their governments to raise taxes on themselves and other wealthy people to help with responses to the coronavirus pandemic. “Today, we, the undersigned millionaires, ask our governments to increase taxes on people like us. Immediately. Substantially. Permanently, “the millionaires said, under …