Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Overseen by the conservative Heritage Foundation, the ...

Scientists once thought that a male frog dubbed Romeo was the last of his kind. Then, when more Sehuencas water frogs were discovered in 2018, they hoped he would mate with a female they called Juliet ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

A rare frog poison has been named as the cause of Russian democracy fighter Alexei Navalny's 2024 death. But it's unlikely to have come from a frog. A poison found in threatened frog species in the ...

Epibatidine is about 100 times more potent than morphine, and derived from frogs native to South America Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and four European allies say Epibatidine, the ...

The Russian state has long been accused of using exotic poisons to murder its opponents - whether the nerve agent Novichok or radioactive plutonium isotopes. Could Alexei Navalny have been killed by ...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison in Russia after being poisoned with a deadly toxin found in the skin of Ecuadorian dart frogs, the UK and other allies have revealed. The ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of State hosted the largest ministerial in over four years, gathering foreign ministers from 55 countries for the inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial. In the days ...

Precise, deniable and, in Russia’s case, grimly familiar. Poison has become less a medieval cliché than a geopolitical signature flourish in recent years. Accusations of Russian poisoning surfaced ...

Putin’s frog poison hit on Navalny reveals his secret chemical weapons Porton Down scientists say jailed Russian dissident killed by toxin that could only have been made in state-sponsored lab 2362 ...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died after being poisoned with a rare "dart frog toxin," the United Kingdom's Foreign Office said in a statement released Feb. 14. The announcement comes two ...