Feb. 18 (UPI) — Former Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen agreed to a one-year contract with the Seattle Seahawks on Tuesday. League sources told ESPN and NFL Media that Olsen’s deal is worth $7 million and includes $5.5 million… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — A South Carolina coroner said Tuesday that a 6-year-old girl who was found dead after vanishing from her yard last week died by asphyxiation. Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said Faye Swetlik died a few hours… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — Jurors who will decide the fate of former movie producer Harvey Weinstein ended their first day of deliberations Tuesday without a verdict. The panel spent about 5 hours discussing the case behind closed doors. Judge James… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James slammed MLB commissioner Rob Manfred for the league’s handling of the Houston Astros‘ sign-stealing scandal. In a pair of tweets posted Tuesday, James urged Manfred to listen to players from… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by Chinese electronics company Huawei arguing that a 2018 law banning U.S. federal employees from purchasing its products is unconstitutional. Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District Court… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — Fluoride helps prevent tooth day — but too much of it can actually negatively affect oral hygiene, a new analysis has suggested. In findings published Tuesday in Science Signaling, researchers have expanded their understanding of how… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — General Atomics received two contracts totaling $35.6 million for work on the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System for the Navy, the Pentagon announced Thursday. The larger of the two deals is a $25.2 million delivery order funding… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — NASCAR driver Ryan Newman is awake and speaking with family and doctors a day after being involved in a devastating crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. Roush Fenway Racing issued a statement Tuesday… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — The U.S. military did not properly account for nearly $715 million in weapons and equipment intended for Syrian partners fighting ISIS, according to a Department of Defense report released Tuesday. According to the DoD Inspector General’s… Continue Reading
You could have more in common with one of the Impractical Jokers than you think, but there’s only one way to know for sure! Take our quiz to see if you and Joe, Q, Murr, or Sal are cut from… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — Three Super Hornet aircraft arrived in Helsinki Tuesday as Boeing launched the flight evaluation phase for Finland’s HX fighter replacement program. A single-seat F/A-18E, a twin-seat F/A-18F and an EA-18G arrived at Tampere-Pirkkala Airbase for Boeing’s… Continue Reading
Long weekends are great, but trying to get back into the weekday swing of things after a precious Monday off can be pretty difficult. I’ve probably doubled my regular caffeine intake and this day has felt like it’s thirty years… Continue Reading
The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is an annual tradition that goes back almost one hundred years, and although it’s been customary for the sitting president and vice president to attend since the very first dinner in 1921, Trump has… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — Kickstarter employees successfully formed a union Tuesday, becoming one of the first groups of tech employees to unionize. The Kickstarter employee union effort, Kickstarter United, announced it voted to form a union with the Office and… Continue Reading
The NTSB’s primary evidence is log data that is stored to an SD Card inside every Model X. This data records second-by-second changes in the vehicle’s steering-wheel position, velocity, and other variables. NTSB examined log data from a month of… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — Animal rescuers in Britain said a water rescue team was dispatched to save a pony that was stranded in a flooded field. The RSPCA said a specialist water rescue team responded to a field next to… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — With the help of a powerful radio telescope in the Netherlands, scientists have developed a new way to study the environment around exoplanets. Using the Low Frequency Array radio telescope, scientists for the first time detected… Continue Reading
A winter storm is dumping snow across upstate New York and portions of New England on Tuesday as it skirts across the Canada border. The storm first rolled into the Pacific Northwest over the weekend before taking a cross-country tour,… Continue Reading
Patients taking a common diuretic to help lower blood pressure may be better off with a similarly effective but safer one, a new study suggests. Current guidelines recommend the drug chlorthalidone, sold as Thalitone, as the first-line diuretic. But it… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — An Ohio police officer rescued a dog that fell through the ice of a frozen pond with some assistance from a kayaker. The Springfield Township Police Department posted a video to Facebook showing Officer Simms wading… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — President Donald Trump issued pardons to former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr., “junk bond king” Michael Milken and former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, the White House announced Tuesday. The announcement included pardons… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — David Armstrong-Jones announced Tuesday that he is divorcing his wife Serena. Armstrong-Jones is Queen Elizabeth II’s nephew and the earl of Snowdon. A spokesperson for the couple told CNN the split is amicable. “The Earl and… Continue Reading
Maybe you’ve gone to Craigslist to find a used car or a secondhand couch, but imagine having to turn to the internet to pay for lifesaving drugs. It’s already happening: A new study found that hundreds of ads were placed… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — Ryan Newman‘s banged-up No. 6 Ford arrived Tuesday at NASCAR’s Research and Development Center, where it will be analyzed to improve car safety standards for all drivers after his Daytona 500 crash. NASCAR said Monday night… Continue Reading
Feb. 18 (UPI) — A South Carolina man who won a $250,000 lottery jackpot said he bought his ticket with $5 in quarters he vacuumed out of his car. The Chapin man told South Carolina Education Lottery officials he vacuumed… Continue Reading