The roads are becoming increasingly dangerous for cyclists, and the numbers paint a grim picture. Recently, we hit a heartbreaking milestone: the highest number of bicycle fatalities ever recorded in the United States. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 1,105 cyclists lost their lives on public roads. It’s a stark reminder that, despite...
Two people have died so far due to a listeria outbreak in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) alerted on Friday. Listeria is the third-leading cause of death from foodborne illness in the country, according to the health agency. Twenty-eight people across 12 states have reported illness from listeria infection —...
Chef Joyce Chen wore many titles in a life worthy of a novel. Wartime survivor. Immigrant. Mother. Entrepreneur. Inventor. American. Born in Beijing and raised in Shanghai, Chen most notably popularized Chinese food in the United States with her innovative Cambridge, Massachusetts, restaurants, cookbook, PBS cooking show, supermarket sauces and oils and patented cookware and...
The Museum of the Bible in the nation’s capital has opened a new exhibit that is offering a dive into the past, present and future of worship. Titled “All Creation Sings,” the exhibit offers an interactive worship experience that is designed to “enlighten” guests by sharing the diversity, development and history of the practice of...
The future of urban transportation is here, and it’s taking the form of sleek, autonomous vehicles traveling through city streets. Across the United States, self-driving car companies are racing to revolutionize how we move, promising safer roads, reduced traffic and a new era of mobility. But it’s in San Francisco that this future is suddenly...
Fox News Digital publishes an array of health pieces all week long on medical research, disease prevention, healthy eating, cutting-edge surgeries and more. Also featured are personal stories of families overcoming great medical obstacles. Check out some of the top stories from this past week that you may have missed or have been meaning to...
On this day in history, July 21, 1999, Navy divers recovered the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, 33, and her sister Lauren Bessette, 34, at about 10:30 a.m. in 116 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean about eight miles the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, following a...
“Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, upon the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the...
You might say Tito Puente was born to connect cultures. Puente, after all, is the Spanish word for bridge. The New York City native, born to parents from Puerto Rico, found fame the world over as the Latin King, the Mambo King or, simply, El Rey — the King, in Spanish. His story is all...
On this day in history, July 20, 1968, athletes competed in the first Special Olympics International Games — the largest sporting event for people with intellectual disabilities today, according to National Geographic. The first Special Olympics International Games were held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. About 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities from the United...
