A decade after the Mojave Desert saw last significant bloom, the Death Valley - America’s hottest and driest place - is enjoying an exceptional flowering of wild flora and desert gold, the park’s most common flower, due to unusually wet fall last year

An ongoing investigation by the US military admits responsibility for the missile strike that hit an elementary school in Teheran, considered one of the deadliest single military errors in decades: according to Iranian officials it claimed 175 lives

US Hockey Team won a historic gold medal at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics defeating Canada 2-1 in overtime; Jack Hughes’ goal gave the team its first victory since the 1980 Lake Placid Games

President Trump posted a video on his social media that included a portrayal of the Obama couple as apes; condemned by critics and some allies, was then removed; the only Black Republican senator called it the "most racist thing" ever from the White House

Hundreds of shops in Minnesota went on strike putting up "closed" signs, students and workers stayed home, thousands flooded the streets in the most widespread protest since ICE arrived in Minneapolis, demanding federal immigration agents leave the city