California will rename places to remove racist term for a Native American woman.

Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2022 signed a bill into law that bans use of the word “squaw” in future place names.

New names have been selected in consultation with California ’s Native American tribes.

US steps up campaign to transform Kenya -led force in Haiti to a UN peacekeeping force.

U.S. proposed a U.N. peacekeeping mission in early September as one way to secure regular funding for the force.

Since then, the gangs have intensified their attacks, with violence exploding last Sunday in the capital.

The gangs, now estimated by the U,N , control 85% of the capital, shut down the country’s main airport on Monday .

RSV is the leading cause of hospitalization for US infants, but it also causes severe and serious illnesses in adults, especially those 75 and older.

The 2017-2018 season carried the highest burden of severe illness, with 8,620 in-hospital deaths.

The 2023-2024 season marked the first season an RSV vaccine was available in the United States for adults over 60 at risk for severe outcomes.

Palm Springs officials approve $ 5.9 M to pay Black and Latino families displaced from neighborhood.

Palm Springs City Council approved the deal in a unanimous vote Thursday .

The council also approved $10 million for a first -time homebuyer assistance program.

Families recalled houses being burned and torn down in the area before residents were told to vacate their homes.

Three daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA , FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader's assassination.

They claim the agencies were involved in the assassination plot and failed to stop the killing.

Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965 , at the Audubon Ballroom on West 165th Street in Manhattan .

President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial on November 15th, 1939 .

The memorial was dedicated on Jefferson 's 200th birthday on April 13th, 1943 .

The National Park Service described Thomas Jefferson as a complex 19th century man with a wide-ranging impact on the very makeup of America itself.

A study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego has discovered a vulnerability within strains of bacteria that are antibiotic resistant.

While antibiotic resistance provides some advantages for the bacteria to survive, it's also linked with a physiological limitation.

This newly discovered weakness can now be used as a target to counteract antibiotic resistance without the use of drugs or toxic chemicals.

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Some Sudanese women and girls assert that men have sexually exploited them in Chad 's displacement sites.

Hundreds of thousands of people, most of them women, have streamed into Chad to escape Sudan 's civil war.

Aid groups have long struggled to combat the issue, citing a lack of reporting by women, not enough funds to respond.

The women said they just want to feel safe, adding that access to jobs would lessen their vulnerability.

The head official for Adre said police are not allowed inside the camps and asserted that allegations against them of exploitation were false.

One 19-year-old sought refuge in Chad after most of her family was killed or abducted in Sudan 's Darfur region last year .

Skeletal remains of at least 42 children, ages 2 to 7 , were discovered at Templo Mayor in Mexico in 1980 and 1981 .

The sacrifices were likely an attempt to end a great drought in the region by making offerings to the rain god Tláloc .

Droughts in early summer would have affected the germination of plants prior to the canícula [dog days of summer ].

An analysis found metal pellets and "recent wounds consistent with shotgun fire" in the eagle's body.

The eagle was at least 18 years old and was first observed in Vermont in August 2006 .

Bald eagles are a protected species at both the federal and state levels.

They are no longer considered endangered under the Endangered Species Act .