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X Alfonso is both pioneer and contemporary music visionary.

X Alfonso Is A Cuban Hip-Hop Pioneer Still Making Vibrant Music

X Alfonso comes from a storied musical family in Cuba and continues to make music with an impact. Alt.Latino's Felix Contreras shares a few singles off Alfonso's forthcoming album.

Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal courthouse in Washington in July, following a status hearing.

Michael Flynn Asks For No Prison Time, Cites Help He Gave Special Counsel

Defense lawyers told the judge their client gave investigators extensive help and gave the country exemplary military service.

Never Miss Club Aims To Make Sunday Their 54th Super Bowl

For members of the Never Miss a Super Bowl Club, the Super Bowl isn't just a game — it's a tradition that they will be carrying on for a 54th consecutive year.

A worker cuts black granite to make a countertop. Though granite, marble and "engineered stone" all can produce harmful silica dust when cut, ground or polished, the artificial stone typically contains much more silica, says a CDC researcher tracking cases of silicosis.

Workers Are Falling Ill, Even Dying, After Making Kitchen Countertops

Irreversible lung disease has started to show up among young workers who cut, grind and polish countertops made of increasingly popular "engineered" stone. The material is more than 90% silica.

Some of the men imprisoned by a criminal gang in Pakistan's illicit kidney trade return to the apartment in Rawalpindi where they were held by force.

In Pakistan, Illegal Kidney Trade Flourishes As Victims Await Justice

Sophisticated criminals prey on the poor, luring them with false promises of lucrative jobs before depriving them of their organs. The "kidney mafias" benefit from powerful political connections.

A Devils Hole pupfish is pictured at the Ash Meadows Fish Conservation Facility in Nevada. Scientists recently took captive-bred pupfish from this facility and introduced them into the species' natural habitat in Death Valley National Park.

As federal scientists faced turmoil, the Devils Hole pupfish reached a crisis point

The Devils hole pupfish lives in just one spot in Death Valley. Wildlife officials have managed this iconic fish for decades, and last spring, just as the Trump administration was laying off all kinds of scientists, the wild population of this fish plummeted to only 20 individuals. Officials then took an irrevocable step.

Will New California Legislation Make Employment More Fair In Silicon Valley?

Governor Gavin Newsom, last week, signed AB5: that’s legislation that transforms the way workers are identified and get paid in California.AB5 came out of…

A year after the attack, people stand by a makeshift memorial for county workers near the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016.

San Bernardino Victims' Families Accuse Tech Giants Of Enabling ISIS

Facebook, Google and Twitter have been accused in a new lawsuit of aiding terrorism. The suit was filed by family members of three of the victims in the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack.

How To Make Sense of All The COVID-19 Projections? A New Model Combines Them

Projections of deaths from COVID-19 vary wildly. How are we to make sense of the differences? One researcher has developed one model that compares and merges them all.

The Second Amendment is short on words but long on dispute.

The Second Amendment: 27 Words, Endless Interpretations

After more than 200 years of intense scrutiny, the meaning of the Second Amendment continues to baffle and elude. Maybe it would help to think about this complicated dictum in a more slant way, like a poet — through simile and metaphor.

Police search a headland in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, following an arrest in relation to the death of a man in 1998. More than 30 years after Scott Johnson died after falling off a cliff in Sydney, authorities have charged a man with his death, in an apparent gay hate crime that police believe was one of many over several decades in Australia's largest city.

Australian Authorities Make Arrest In Apparent Hate Crime Murder Of Gay Man In 1988

In 1988, American mathematician Scott Johnson died after falling off a cliff in Sydney. Police now believe his death was among a number of anti-gay hate crimes that took place over several decades.

June Ward (right) — pictured with her sisters Susie Gilliam (center) and Karen Douthitt (left) — carries a rare gene mutation that virtually guarantees she will get Alzheimer's in the next few years. She is part of a network of more than 200 families with these kinds of gene mutations who have volunteered as research subjects over the past two decades.

Studying these young Alzheimer's patients led to breakthroughs. Trump cut the funding

Families with rare gene mutations that cause Alzheimer's in middle age are giving scientists a unique window on the disease, and a quick way to test potential treatments.

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