Rebecca Hersher

Rebecca Hersher appears in the following:

WATCH: Tracking Lightning Strikes, From Space

Monday, March 06, 2017

NOAA's new weather satellite is carrying the first lightning detector ever parked in orbit over Earth. It has sent back its first images of real-time lightning storms in the Western Hemisphere.

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Irish Authorities Say Remains Of Children Found At Former Home For Unwed Mothers

Friday, March 03, 2017

Authorities believe "there are a significant number of children's remains" at the home run by the Bon Secours nuns from the 1920s to the 1960s in the town of Tuam.

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Amazon And The $150 Million Typo

Friday, March 03, 2017

Amazon said a mistyped command caused part of the company's cloud computing service to go down for hours on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported the outage caused millions of dollars in losses.

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China Describes Its Vision Of Government-Controlled Internet

Thursday, March 02, 2017

In its first cyber policy paper, the Chinese government emphasize the idea that each country should govern the Internet as it sees fit, and insisted that the Internet in China is "fully open."

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Marine Le Pen Faces Possible Prosecution Over Graphic Tweets

Thursday, March 02, 2017

Members of the European Parliament voted to strip the French far-right presidential candidate of immunity from prosecution. She is being investigated for posting images of violence by members of ISIS.

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Parent Company Of Kay Jewelers Accused Of Wage Discrimination Against Women

Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Some 69,000 employees are covered by a class-action lawsuit against the company. Hundreds of women have given newly released firsthand accounts of enduring unwanted sexual advances by male superiors.

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Ex-CIA Officer In Rendition Case Is Released After Italy Grants Partial Clemency

Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Sabrina De Sousa is one of 26 Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court over the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric. She has been released from custody in Portugal.

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Samsung Chief Charged With Bribery And Embezzlement

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

South Korean authorities charged the acting head of Samsung and four other executives at the company in connection with a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of the country's president.

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Bounding Baby Bongo Born

Friday, February 24, 2017

An eastern bongo at the Los Angeles Zoo birthed the first bongo to be born at the zoo in more than 20 years. Bongos are native to Africa and have stripes, big ears and horns.

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Los Angeles Officials To ICE: Stop Identifying Yourselves As Police

Friday, February 24, 2017

The mayor of Los Angeles co-signed a letter to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency requesting that its agents not identify themselves as "police" during operations in the city.

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WATCH: 2 Table Tennis Titleholders Have Epic, 766-Shot Rally

Friday, February 24, 2017

Li Jie and Hitomi Sato met at the Qatar Open on Thursday and wound up in a battle of wills that lasted more than 10 minutes and perhaps defied the average human ability to focus.

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Some Teachers, Principals And Students Condemn Trump Transgender Policy

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Supporters say it was wrong to force local schools to allow transgender students to choose which bathroom to use. Critics say rescinding that policy empowers those who harass transgender kids.

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Arkansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Local Anti-Discrimination Law

Thursday, February 23, 2017

The court ruled that a Fayetteville, Ark., law protecting LGBT people violated a state law barring cities from protecting people from discrimination who are not already covered at the state level.

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Trump Administration Rescinds Obama Rule On Transgender Students' Bathroom Use

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

The administration will not direct public schools to allow students to use facilities that match their gender identities. It notes the primary role of state and local districts in education policy.

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Protesters Leave Dakota Access Pipeline Area; Some Stay And Are Arrested

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

The governor of North Dakota had set Wednesday as the evacuation deadline for the largest protest camp. The Trump administration is allowing the pipeline to be built, despite the protests.

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Key Moments In The Dakota Access Pipeline Fight

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

An overview of multiple legal challenges and protests since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers considered approving a section of the pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.

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Judge Rules Texas Can't Cut Off Medicaid Funds To Planned Parenthood — For Now

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

After Texas officials moved to block the health provider from receiving Medicaid dollars, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the state, allowing the group to stay in the program.

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SpaceX Cargo Craft Fails To Dock With Space Station, Will Try Again

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

The private spaceflight company launched its Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday, only to have the rocket's cargo capsule encounter an error in its navigation system on Wednesday during a docking attempt.

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After Comments On Pedophilia, Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

One day after he lost both a book deal and a prominent speaking gig, Yiannopoulos said he was stepping down as technology editor for the website formerly run by President Trump's chief strategist.

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In South Sudan, People Are Dying Of Hunger As Civil War Continues

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

The U.N. says nearly 5 million people do not have enough food, and it issued a formal famine declaration for Unity State in the north-central part of the country.

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