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Colin Kaepernick to publish memoir ‘The Perilous Fight’ in September

NEW YORK — A decade after he first took a knee during the national anthem, Colin Kaepernick will be publishing his life story. The activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback has completed "The Perilous Fight," to come out Sept. 15 through the Hachette Book Group imprint Legacy Lit. His memoir will come out almost exactly 10 years after he knelt before a preseason game, a protest against police violence and racial inequality that was emulated by some players and criticized by politicians, team owners and fans, some of whom booed him and burned his jersey. Kaepernick, who ...

Zoo in Chile stages Easter egg hunt for animals

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Step aside, children — this Easter egg hunt is for zoo animals only. At the largest private zoo in Chile, several of its animal residents — meerkats, monkeys, lemurs and others — searched on Sunday for their food packaged as Easter egg-themed treats. The "egg ...

I Love My Librarian Award recognizes book ‘keepers’

NEW YORK — There are many ways to win an I Love My Librarian Award. You might be a fighter against book bans, like Valerie Byrd Fort at the University of South Carolina; or a mentor for graduate students researching biomedicine, like Joanne Doucette at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy ...

Canadian Artemis astronaut good with ‘Project Hail Mary’

HOUSTON — The new space movie "Project Hail Mary" starring Ryan Gosling is getting rave reviews more than halfway to the moon. Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen said Saturday that he and his Artemis II crewmates got to watch the film with their families before launching on the lunar ...

Whale that swam 20 miles up river found dead

A juvenile gray whale that amazed Washington state residents after it swam 20 miles up a small river was found dead, and an official with a marine mammal research group suspects hunger may have driven the whale to new hunting grounds as the species' population declines. The whale was discovered Saturday near Raymond, Washington, in the Willapa River, which feeds into the ocean at Willapa Bay. A number of gray whales are currently in the bay on their 5,000-mile spring migration from birthing grounds in Baja California, Mexico, north to feeding grounds in Alaska. The larger issue that ...

So if aliens really do exist, what do they think of us?

For generations, human beings have wondered: What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us? It's a question that can produce some, well, uncomfortable answers if you happen to be an earthling. "If I were looking at Earth from ...