April 20 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1871, the U.S. Congress passed the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, ...

Opponents of the project, known as Kaskida, say an accident could be even worse than the Deepwater Horizon spill. The company says it’s learned from the past. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from ...

Reporter Ashley Grams joined WCCO in the summer of 2025. She's excited to be in Minnesota after spending much of her life on the West Coast. A barge spilled up to 3,500 gallons of crude corn oil into ...

When 240 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., starting in mid-January 2026 and running though mid-March, it was estimated to be the largest sewage spill in ...

An oil spill has contaminated 933 kilometers (about 580 miles) of shoreline along the western Gulf of Mexico, impacting the Mexican states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Campeche and Tabasco in eastern ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A man was shot in the hand with a BB gun after a white pickup truck pulled up to a bus stop outside a gas station in Escambia County on 1 dead after rollover crash in Escambia ...

MEXICO CITY, April 16 (Reuters) - An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that hurt marine life and stained beaches in February was caused by ‌a leak near the Abkatun field run by state-owned Pemex, its ...

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that soiled beaches, killed wildlife and sparked outrage from environmental groups was caused by a leaky pipeline owned by state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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In a recent survey from the Digital Education Council, a global alliance of universities and industry representatives focused on education innovation, the majority of students (86%) said they use ...

As D.C. Water crews continue to investigate what caused a pipe to break, spewing hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, officials in the District said they soon may be able ...