Belarus’s top opposition leader has fled the country after discussing the results of the presidential election and the afternoon of a police raid on those protesting authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is now “safe” in Lithuania, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius sei Tuesday. Has Belarus reached a tipping point? Thousands …

A Republican running for Congress in Connecticut fell out of the race Tuesday – hours before polls opened for the state’s primary – after he was arrested over a violent encounter with an ex-girlfriend. Thomas Gilmer, the GOP’s undersigned candidate, was arrested late Monday night, according to a statement from …

Some people get really sick of it COVID-19, and others do not. Nobody knows why. Now, a study by researchers at Stanford University of Medicine and other institutions has revealed immunological abnormalities and degenerations that appear to spell the difference between severe and mild cases of COVID-19. That difference may …

Some Persiders of 2019, as seen from Macedonia. Spaceweather.com/Stojan Stojanovski It’s early August, which means the annual Perseid meteor shower is active, and it’s ready to go. The Perseids are one of the best, brightest batches of shooting stars, and it feels like we could use them now more than …

New York Comic Con 2020 has been canceled. It was planned to be the last major comic convention of the year. Reedpop has informed Newsarama that this year the physical New York Comic Con (NYCC) convention would be replaced by an online experience on the convention’s YouTube page. This online …