RFK Jr. orders passenger from hantavirus-stricken cruise to remain in quarantine in Nebraska, despite CDC recommendation
June 17, 2026
A cyber extortion group claimed on Tuesday to have stolen more than a terabyte of data from pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk and said it is exploring selling parts of
June 16, 2026
G7 leaders discussed a plan to grant select “trusted partners” access to advanced AI models from U.S. firms
June 17, 2026
A tropical storm was expected to form off the Texas coast by Wednesday morning from a system labeled Potential Tropical Cyclone One,
June 17, 2026
G7 leaders called on Tuesday for a strong and coordinated response to the Ebola outbreak in Congo, urging other nations to dedicate resources in a bid to ensure the virus
June 16, 2026
The head of Africa's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in Congo could be the
June 16, 2026
Limited tracking data shows that the B-52 involved in a deadly crash during a test flight at an Air Force base in California made a sharp right and then nearly completed a 180-degree turn before plunging to the ground at nearly a mile a minute
June 17, 2026
Phoenix Tailings said on Tuesday the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital has conditionally committed $500 million in long-term debt financing to the company to construct a rare
June 16, 2026
U.S.
June 16, 2026
A cluster of storms along the Gulf Coast of Texas could become the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season
June 16, 2026
MoDOT spent $2.6 million on invasive tree removal in preparation for World Cup
June 17, 2026
U.S.
June 16, 2026
Nvidia is betting on artificial intelligence to revive U.S. manufacturing
June 16, 2026
The nation’s infant mortality dropped to a new all-time low in 2025
June 16, 2026
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday its Threads app had reached 500 million monthly active users, nearly three years after the social network platform was launched as a competitor to
June 16, 2026
Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying the startup behind the popular AI coding agent Cursor, Anysphere, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal to boost
June 16, 2026
Mobileye Global said on Tuesday it would launch its own robotaxi service in the United States next year, putting the self-driving technology supplier in direct
June 16, 2026
Olin said on Tuesday it will acquire Huntsman in an all-stock deal valued at about $2.43 billion, combining two U.S. chemical producers as the industry seeks scale
June 16, 2026
Colorado Parks and Wildlife salvages over 1,000 trout as Denver Water drains reservoir
June 16, 2026
Invasive golden mussels run rampant in San Joaquin County, spark plea for federal assistance
June 16, 2026
After a long childhood cancer journey, this family is embracing life – and dancing
June 16, 2026
Dads today are spending dramatically more time with their kids than they did a generation ago. But there’s a less encouraging trend tucked into this development.
June 16, 2026
SpaceX will move forward with its $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Cursor as Elon Musk’s space exploration and AI company seeks a competitive edge against rivals Anthropic and OpenAI after its Wall Street debut last week
June 16, 2026
Tropical storm chances increase for major Gulf flood threat that has killed 1 in Texas
June 15, 2026
The rapidly growing popularity of prediction markets is sparking worries about the markets’ effects on US politics, where campaign staff has bet on its candidate’s electoral performance.
June 16, 2026
An environmental engineer who mapped microplastic pollution in three of Pennsylvania’s watersheds explains what it means for our health.
June 16, 2026
An observatory director describes the differences between the types of rocks that fly through space.
June 16, 2026
Atlanta nonprofit's STEM summer camp inspires students to dream bigger through robotics
June 16, 2026
A data center could get more solar power and be kept much colder in space, but it would be extremely difficult to repair and update.
June 16, 2026
Paralyzed Minnesota man's invention aims to help people with mobility issues walk again
June 16, 2026
How one devastating cyclone wiped out 7% of the planet’s rarest great apes
June 16, 2026
A group of cybersecurity executives and experts is asking the Trump administration to lift its directive preventing the use of Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence models by foreign nationals, saying the move could help U.S. adversaries more than it hurts them
June 16, 2026
Japan’s SoftBank Group has launched a cybersecurity product designed to counter breaches enabled by artificial intelligence, the company said on Tuesday.
June 16, 2026
What you’re getting wrong about feeling loved, according to relationship experts
June 16, 2026
Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. is launching a service using OpenAI technology to protect against the looming threat of cyberattacks
June 16, 2026
Novo Nordisk plans to seek Chinese regulatory approval for its Wegovy weight-loss pill "very soon," its CEO said on Tuesday, as it moves to catch up with
June 16, 2026
Australia's weather bureau warned on Tuesday that an El Nino weather pattern has formed in the tropical Pacific and could intensify in the
June 16, 2026
OpenAI spent $34 billion last year to dominate the booming AI market ahead of its planned IPO, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
June 16, 2026
Almost all of the world's children are exposed to at least one climate hazard, with as many as 1.8 billion put in danger by droughts and 1.2 billion by extreme heat, the
June 16, 2026
A U.S.
June 16, 2026
So far, about 10% of the ocean has formal protection as countries work toward the 30x30 goal, but many areas are still protected on paper only.
June 16, 2026
One month after Ebola cases were confirmed in eastern Congo, its true scale remains unknown, with major data gaps muddying the picture and
June 15, 2026
Several of the skydivers who were killed when their plane crashed moments after taking off from a Missouri airfield were experienced jumpers
June 15, 2026
Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent for $8 billion to $10 billion, The Information reported on Monday citing a person with knowledge of the deal.
June 16, 2026
In the old days, companies went public early to access cash to grow. These days, soon-to-be-public companies are already flush with cash from private finance.
June 12, 2026
Iran has emerged with its uranium enrichment knowledge intact, its stockpile buried and fresh reason to believe that only a nuclear weapon would have deterred the US-Israel attack.
June 16, 2026
U.S.
June 15, 2026
Iran and the United States say they have reached a deal to end their war, which is expected to pave the way for talks on Iran's nuclear programme.
June 15, 2026
Cybersecurity leaders at major U.S. firms, including Nvidia and Adobe, have asked the Trump administration to lift restrictions on Anthropic's most powerful AI
June 15, 2026
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Monday by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI that accused rival Sam Altman's OpenAI of stealing trade
June 15, 2026
Mother-daughter duo navigate loss while changing laws in Utah farming
June 16, 2026
Baby formula maker Nara Organics said it is voluntarily recalling all of its infant formula, currently available in the United States, over potential risk of bacterial
June 15, 2026
A surge in attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa is damaging the country's global image and fuelling a backlash against businesses and artists
June 15, 2026
A Chinese-linked hacking group spent more than a year secretly stealing data from U.S. and Canadian academic, medical and military research institutions, before being
June 15, 2026
Scientists say GLP-1s improved male testosterone levels and sperm count
June 15, 2026
2026 has already been a banner year for meteor spottings and sonic booms across the world.
June 15, 2026
AI schools try to tailor learning to match students’ abilities. But they can’t help young people learn who they are.
June 15, 2026
Congolese authorities report a large daily increase in Ebola cases as the virus without a approved medicine or vaccine spreads rapidly
June 15, 2026
As sea ice melts, more of the Arctic Ocean opens up. A former ambassador explains how this treaty creates time for scientists to figure out what lives there.
June 15, 2026
Limits on healthcare for undocumented women are reshaping pregnancy and family health.
June 15, 2026
Permanently installing a heat pump system in a building is expensive. But new window units can deliver many of the benefits with far less cost and go with renters when they move.
June 15, 2026
The constant noise of traffic is so ubiquitous, it is barely noticeable to our ears – until we step into a roadless forest and experience true quiet.
June 15, 2026
Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration
June 15, 2026
There is evidence of people who crossed gender boundaries even in ancient civilizations, though the terms naming them have evolved over time.
June 15, 2026
Kīlauea eruption episode 49 ends after 700-foot lava fountains
June 15, 2026
Three coconut rhinoceros beetles found dead in traps in Waikapu
June 15, 2026
A 900-pound time capsule marking the 250th anniversary of American independence has been sealed shut and shipped to Philadelphia, where it will be buried next month
June 15, 2026
The
June 15, 2026
The risk that a traveler infected with Ebola could arrive in the United States during the 2026 World Cup tournament that kicked off last week is low
June 15, 2026
Shares of SpaceX rose more than 6% in early trading on Monday, adding to gains after a blockbuster debut last week that pushed the company's valuation past $2 trillion and cemented
June 15, 2026
Australia's wealthiest person, mining baron Gina Rinehart, has taken a stake of more than $1 billion in the record-setting $75 billion SpaceX IPO, the Wall Street
June 15, 2026
Chinese technology company ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI chips for inference work and is also considering a similar deal with
June 15, 2026
The Group of Seven wealthy nations will meet on Monday in the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains to discuss wars in Ukraine and Iran, global
June 15, 2026
The use of advanced sonar to catch fish has some anglers divided about the point of heading out onto the lake
June 15, 2026
The Congolese Ministry of Health reports that confirmed Ebola cases in Congo have increased to 782, with 181 deaths
June 15, 2026
Switzerland on Sunday rejected a proposal to cap its population at 10 million as voters prioritised economic stability and
June 14, 2026
Senior Anthropic technical staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials to try resolving a dispute that has taken the company's most advanced AI models offline, Axios
June 15, 2026
Families, friends gather at San Francisco Zoo to raise money for brain cancer research
June 15, 2026
Most World Cup stadiums have Rutgers turfgrass, which is tested for toughness at a research farm in New Jersey
June 15, 2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says countries must learn the lesson of diversification after AI giant Anthropic said it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals
June 15, 2026
Global consumers want more protein in every bite, but the dairy industry is struggling to give it to them
June 13, 2026
The European Commission said on Sunday that it is assessing the practical implications of a U.S. export control directive impacting artificial intelligence company
June 14, 2026
After the Kpangba displacement camp became the first in this part of war-torn Congo to record deaths from
June 14, 2026
Steven Spielberg’s career has been an alien crusade culminating in ‘Disclosure Day’
June 14, 2026
Restrictions on drones flying over Australia's Coogee Beach will be reviewed by a regulator so rescuers in New South Wales state can monitor for sharks, after an attack
June 14, 2026
Japan is preparing to send a delegation to Greenland this summer to evaluate possible rare earth extraction, the Nikkei newswire reported on Sunday.
June 14, 2026
Nara Organics has recalled its organic baby formula sold at Target stores and online due to a multistate outbreak of infant botulism
June 14, 2026
North Korea said on Sunday denuclearisation is a matter that is terminated irreversibly, as it condemned recent nuclear deterrence talks between the U.S. and South Korea.
June 14, 2026
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among tech leaders who raised concerns to senior Trump administration officials this week about security risks in Anthropic’s most
June 14, 2026
OpenAI received a subpoena from several states as part of a probe into the safety of customers using its chatbot as it prepares to offer stock to the public for the first time
June 14, 2026
How much of Musk’s wealth comes from government help? Virtually all of it
June 14, 2026
Judge orders Trump administration to restore signs changed at national parks
June 13, 2026
Anthropic suspends all access to Mythos model after US government bans foreign nationals use
June 13, 2026
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and now first-ever trillionaire, controls a lot of different businesses
June 13, 2026
Legislation in two of the nation's most populous states could force 3D printers to come equipped with technology blocking them from making guns
June 13, 2026
Exclusive: Iran sealed uranium cache and placed mines amid fears of US operation to seize material
June 13, 2026
Anthropic said on Friday it will "abruptly disable" its most advanced AI models for all users after the U.S. government ordered it
June 13, 2026
AI giant Anthropic says it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals
June 13, 2026
Storm threat shifts into the East after tornadoes, winds kill multiple people and level homes in the central US
June 11, 2026
A coalition of U.S. state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
June 13, 2026
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the social media giant has made mistakes in its AI transformation of its workforce, according to an internal memo
June 13, 2026
By the numbers: Here’s what you might have missed in SpaceX’s record market debut
June 13, 2026
Residents in tornado-ravaged areas in Illinois and Indiana are grappling with damage to their homes and neighborhoods after a strong line of storms barreled through communities south of Chicago
June 12, 2026
Prehospital blood program already saving lives across central Kentucky
June 13, 2026
New UFO files have been released by the Trump administration that include several vivid descriptions of mysterious sightings in the sky
June 13, 2026
The U.S. says it is close to signing a peace deal that would end the three-month-old war with Iran, though terms have not yet been made public.
June 13, 2026
Soccer fans expecting little more than selfies and street noise in Times Square instead found themselves swept into another global spectacle on Friday, the
June 12, 2026
Russia is developing a satellite-based system for controlling combat drones, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday during a meeting with military officials, the Interfax
June 13, 2026
U.S. space stocks tumbled on Friday as investors rushed to lock in gains on the day of SpaceX's market debut, snapping a months-long rally fueled by anticipation over the
June 12, 2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to be more muted in his criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump at an upcoming summit in Europe
June 12, 2026
Catapulted by the market debut of his rocket company SpaceX, Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire
June 12, 2026
Family shares warning after Kansas dad develops severe tick-borne illness
June 13, 2026
A submersible ride revealed a vast whale graveyard. And it holds more than just bones
June 12, 2026
Alphabet's Google will appeal a German court ruling which said it is legally liable for false claims appearing in AI Overviews, the U.S. tech company said
June 12, 2026
Tweens on social media: Experts say it could lead to earlier substance use
June 12, 2026
Human remains found in 2 Twin Cities lakes 33 years ago identified as Denise Hartley
June 12, 2026
Gabbard rescinds Biden-era intel assessments that were skeptical about ‘Havana Syndrome’
June 12, 2026
Embraer-controlled electric aircraft maker Eve vowed on Friday to spend money in a cautious manner as it eyes a 2028 certification
June 12, 2026
The Pentagon released a third tranche of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings on Friday, which include reports of glowing, sometimes red, orbs seen by
June 12, 2026
Few business leaders have been as deeply embedded in popular culture as Elon Musk, the ambitious entrepreneur who has become a central figure in
June 12, 2026
Emory University team explores promising new therapy for childhood leukemia with fewer toxic effects
June 12, 2026
New census data shows population decline is spreading across America. Planning for growth may be actively making things worse.
June 12, 2026
CAR-T therapy engineers a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer. Making these cels more resilient can make treatments more effective.
June 12, 2026
Efforts to protect land and environmental resources, including fighting climate change, often end up displacing people who have lived in those places for generations.
June 12, 2026
El Niño can trigger intense periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves that can devastate marine life.
June 12, 2026
The executive order is voluntary for AI companies but aligns with AI safety experts on the potential for harm.
June 12, 2026
Warfare in Ukraine and beyond faces a paradigm shift in the coming years as artificial intelligence systems integrate into unified networks that speed up
June 12, 2026
There are many "blind spots" in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a World Health Organization expert said on Friday, suggesting the spread of the
June 12, 2026
AI executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Mistral AI are expected to attend next week's G7 summit, said officials from France, which is crafting an agenda aimed at
June 12, 2026
The U.N. refugee agency confirmed the first Ebola-related deaths in a displacement camp in eastern Congo, as aid workers warned of a
June 12, 2026
Smartphones arrived just before the US fertility rate plunged. One study says it’s a direct cause
June 12, 2026
Steven Spielberg's new film “Disclosure Day” explores extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion
June 12, 2026
A mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the ocean has puzzled scientists. A new study says it’s an ominous sign
June 12, 2026
SpaceX's record $75 billion IPO is poised to supercharge Chinese space startups racing to fund the same technologies that have
June 12, 2026
Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its new "Vera" central processors for AI data centres could be available as soon as August and that they can begin placing orders, three
June 12, 2026
Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south
June 12, 2026
Japan’s H3 rocket has returned to flight with the debut of its new low-cost variant
June 12, 2026
HONG KONG, June 12 - China warned communities in its northwestern Xinjiang and nearby regions on Friday to prepare for "extreme floods" this summer, driven by abnormally high temperatures, heavy
June 12, 2026
The return of the screwworm parasite to the U.S. has some politicians trying to figure out who to blame
June 12, 2026
SpaceX made its Nasdaq debut on Friday, capping the meteoric rise of a company that has reshaped the space business with reusable rockets and
June 11, 2026
SpaceX on Thursday priced the biggest-ever U.S. initial public offering at $135 per share, making Elon Musk’s rocket and spacecraft manufacturer one of the
June 12, 2026
More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against GKN Aerospace after one of the company’s tanks containing a highly flammable chemical overheated and threatened a catastrophic explosion in California's Orange County
June 12, 2026
Inflatable IUD displayed at Mississippi Capitol to promote contraception access
June 12, 2026
El Niño is officially here and may become one of the strongest on record, but what is this global weather influencing phenomenon? CNN Meteorologist Derek Van Dam shows what it is and how it might affect you.
June 11, 2026
June 11 - AI firm Anthropic is planning to lease and manage its own data centers and is seeking financial backing from Alphabet's Google for the lease payments, The Information reported on Thursday.
June 11, 2026
Going fishing? Officials confirm carp from Utah Lake are safe to eat after 20 years
June 12, 2026
Regenerative farming helps this farmer use less water during dry year
June 12, 2026
Four months after a stroke, teen graduates and looks ahead to nursing career
June 12, 2026
After facing closure, Idaho Reptile Zoo keeps rescuing animals and educating families
June 12, 2026
Longtime researcher celebrates his final butterfly release at Jefferson Farm
June 11, 2026
Brazilian officials have announced a significant drop in deforestation rates
June 11, 2026
El Nino conditions are present and expected to strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2026–27, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday.
June 11, 2026
Kailera Therapeutics' oral obesity drug helped patients lose up to 10.9% of their body weight at week 44 in a late-stage trial in China.
August 07, 2025
A new memo from U.S. health regulators is raising questions about a recent decision to authorize the first fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for adult smokers
June 11, 2026
El Niño is here and rapidly strengthening. Here’s what it means for your weather
June 11, 2026
Here’s how we find out how strong tornadoes were
June 11, 2026
Even before going public, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has become a household name in America — more widely recognized than legacy Apollo-era
June 11, 2026
U.S. and South Korean officials discussed strengthening nuclear deterrence and readiness against North Korea’s growing weapons programme on Thursday, South Korea’s defence
June 11, 2026
A KKR-led group on Thursday launched a new company with more than $10 billion in committed capital to finance the build-out of AI infrastructure, the latest effort by an
June 11, 2026
The U.S. government is fast-tracking drugs and accelerating grant funding in its multi-agency strategy to beat back the New World screwworm, a parasite
June 11, 2026
Clinical-stage biotech Kardigan is targeting a valuation of up to $1.4 billion in its initial public offering in the United States, it said on Thursday, as
June 11, 2026
Alphabet's Google is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture part of its next-generation artificial intelligence processor, The Information reported on Thursday, citing
June 11, 2026
Deep in an underground bunker, where walls of screens stream live data from across the battlefield, the
June 11, 2026
If not for the intense rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI, the generative AI boom might not have arrived so quickly.
June 11, 2026
The U.S.
June 11, 2026
Allowing people to fly drones beyond their line of sight could greatly expand commercial applications.
June 11, 2026
Anthropic will donate $150 million to launch a fellowship program called Claude Corps that plans to help nonprofits effectively use artificial intelligence by embedding 1,000 trained fellows in various organizations for a year
June 11, 2026
U.S. meteorologists say an El Nino has formed
June 11, 2026
Many workers fear machines will supplant them as adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates
June 11, 2026
Nearly 1,500 healthcare professionals completed the training in hospitals, birth centers and community organizations across the state.
June 11, 2026
China’s national government policies on energy and economic development are changing pastoral life on the Tibetan Plateau.
June 11, 2026
Communities across the state are demanding to know how proposed data centers would affect their electric and water bills, landscapes and quality of life.
June 11, 2026
Garlic mustard is on the Prohibited Plant List in Massachusetts. Here's why.
June 11, 2026
For better or worse, young people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support
June 11, 2026
Just one-in-three Americans approve of the fast pace of data-center construction that supports artificial intelligence and most
June 11, 2026
By the time the truck pulled away from the morgue in Bunia, the morning heat hung heavily over the road to Mongbwalu.
June 11, 2026
Flesh-eating screwworm has reached the US — a comeback driven by organized crime
June 11, 2026
The future of "Doctor Who” is uncertain after the BBC canceled a planned Christmas special
June 11, 2026
India is expected to receive below-average rainfall over the next two weeks, especially in central and northern regions, as "western disturbances" have
June 11, 2026
NATO's top military commander on Thursday highlighted the importance of battlefield data processing in modern warfare, pointing to conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
June 11, 2026
GSK's record $10.6 billion deal for U.S. company Nuvalent will accelerate the British drugmaker's rebuild of its cancer drug business as
June 11, 2026
Elon Musk is expected to appear virtually at an event by computer chip equipment giant ASML on Thursday to discuss Terafab, his plan for a massive
June 11, 2026
The mayor of a quake-hit southern Philippine town is pleading for air force helicopters to transport food to stave off hunger in places isolated by landslides
June 11, 2026
Barely a week after Nvidia-backed chipmaker Coherent warned of a shortage of indium phosphide in an earnings call in early May, its CEO Jim
June 11, 2026
A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Japan has resumed operations
June 11, 2026
Prominent short seller Jim Chanos took aim at the highly anticipated IPO of SpaceX, warning the Elon Musk-led space company's offering is fueled by
June 11, 2026
Anthropic has joined calls for the AI industry to find ways to cushion people from AI's disruptions to the workforce
June 11, 2026
South Florida beachgoers annoyed by smelly "tsunami" of seaweed. Cities try to rake it, but it keeps coming back
June 11, 2026
Anthropic called on the U.S.
June 11, 2026
Federal authorities served a search warrant on Wednesday at a Southern California aerospace facility where a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate because authorities feared an explosion
June 10, 2026
Microsoft is limiting employees' use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 because of the AI startup's new data retention requirements, The Verge reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
June 10, 2026
An AI boom has driven stock markets to record highs, big tech firms are piling hundreds of billions of dollars into new tech,
June 10, 2026
The dead remains of foundation species can boost or deter how well future generations are able to grow and thrive.
June 11, 2026
A prominent OB-GYN group announced a set of vaccine recommendations on Wednesday that differs from what the U.S. government advises
June 11, 2026
New World Screwworm raises concern for cattle industry, consumer prices in New Mexico
June 11, 2026
New research shows that extreme floods in coastal areas are becoming more common as climate change causes sea levels to rise
June 11, 2026
Dozens of motorcycle taxi drivers have joined an Ebola awareness caravan in eastern Congo
June 10, 2026
The U.S. cyber defense agency said on Wednesday that government officials now have three days to deal with the most serious categories of digital
June 10, 2026
Chip-equipment maker ASML will cut fewer jobs than initially planned, Dutch unions said in a statement after talks with ASML.
June 10, 2026
A former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI who now heads a think tank focused on AI safety filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired from the SpaceX subsidiary for raising
June 10, 2026
Deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia's Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7% of the total population of the critically endangered Tapanuli
June 10, 2026
About one-third of adults misunderstand medical directions. One question could change that
June 10, 2026
Scientists have unearthed marine communities thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard
June 10, 2026
Three laboratories in Democratic Republic of Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, the World Health Organization said, as the outbreak of the
June 10, 2026
After her mother died in late May, baby Buswaza was brought to a church-run orphanage in eastern
June 10, 2026
A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe has released its first major findings
June 10, 2026
A California state court judge has denied motions by Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube seeking a new trial after a jury found the companies liable for designing
June 10, 2026
The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors passed a U.S.-backed resolution on Wednesday telling Iran to declare its remaining enriched
June 10, 2026
SpaceX's much-anticipated $75 billion initial public offering, set to be the largest ever, will likely keep cryptocurrency prices in the doldrums as retail investors
June 10, 2026
As the National Science Foundation starts giving out fewer grants, people worldwide will potentially lose out from potential research findings that could help improve their lives.
June 10, 2026
By David Jeans STARBASE, Texas, June 10 - The last time SpaceX launched a rocket in South Texas, charter boat captain Eddie Reyes was bobbing in a pontoon boat less than 2 miles from the pad with a
June 10, 2026
Half of Americans fear that the rise of AI could put them or someone in their household out of work, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos
June 10, 2026
Trump Media and Technology and TAE Technologies said on Wednesday that they had decided against spinning off Truth Social and certain other TMTG media assets into a new publicly
June 10, 2026
In a survey of more than 600 CDC workers, 99% said the Trump administration’s cuts to the agency have made it less able to protect the public’s health.
June 10, 2026
Teens fare better when both fathers and mothers play key parenting roles, including talking with them about sensitive subjects that were once considered only a mom’s role.
June 10, 2026
Younger students have regained academic ground lost during the pandemic, but older students' test scores remain stagnant
June 10, 2026
Butter and margarine are both made up of long fatty acid chains, but some slight chemical differences mean differences in how they melt.
June 10, 2026
Global regulators said increasingly autonomous forms of AI could amplify risks for the financial system and called for new controls as adoption accelerates.
June 10, 2026
The World Cup will kick off on Thursday under familiar North American summer threats: extreme heat, suffocating humidity and thunderstorms
June 10, 2026
Eli Lilly has solidified its leading position in the booming market for obesity drugs ahead of a wave of possible new entrants to
June 10, 2026
Taiwan's military on Wednesday fired its new mobile HIMARS rocket system, which is widely used by Ukraine, simulating an attack on an
June 10, 2026
Rescuers searched the rubble on Tuesday of a collapsed building in the southern Philippine city of General Santos, the
June 09, 2026
Liu, a Hangzhou-based contractor at a large Chinese internet firm, says her employer began quietly firing contractors in March after it ordered staff to use
June 10, 2026
Thick rafts of volcanic
June 10, 2026
Even as President Donald Trump boosts coal over clean energy, solar power is hitting new milestones in the U.S. and remains the leading source of new power
June 10, 2026
The world has just experienced the second-hottest May since records began, as climate change and the developing El Niño weather pattern conspired to push
June 10, 2026
A study that found even low levels of drinking alcohol can increase health risks was published in full on Tuesday in an independent journal after a draft
June 09, 2026
General Motors is releasing a software update that allows some U.S. electric-vehicle owners to pipe power back to the electric grid,
June 10, 2026
SpaceX executives say the company is aiming to launch initial demonstrations of space-based artificial intelligence computing infrastructure by late 2027,
June 10, 2026
Iron Age woman likely had her brains scooped out before burial, study suggests
June 10, 2026
NASA on Tuesday named three U.S. astronauts and an Italian astronaut as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a docking demonstration involving three spacecraft in Earth's orbit
June 10, 2026
The U.S. military says it has carried out strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic
June 09, 2026
NASA reveals Artemis III crew that will take the next big step on its journey back to the moon
June 09, 2026
Future Leaders winner developing treatment for women's reproductive disorder
June 10, 2026
Archaeologists digging for clues about Battle of Bunker Hill fortification find key, gun flint
June 10, 2026
Animal experiments and analysis of patient records suggest that taking glucosamine is safe for a healthy brain but is associated with further decline in diseased brains.
June 10, 2026
Elon Musk's SpaceX has drawn more than $250 billion of investor demand for what stands to be the largest-ever IPO, said people familiar with
June 10, 2026
NASA named three U.S. astronauts and an Italian astronaut on Tuesday to serve as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a spacecraft docking demonstration in
June 09, 2026
Chris Andrews is a wildlife inspector for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
June 10, 2026
NASA has revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in eventually landing astronauts on the moon
June 09, 2026
New gym opening uses AI to help people rethink their workout
June 10, 2026
A U.S.
June 09, 2026
Oil stockpiles in the world's largest economies are headed toward the lowest levels since at least 2003 as inventories are drawn down at a record pace due
June 09, 2026
Michigan State University researchers helped create the grass for all 16 FIFA World Cup stadiums
June 10, 2026
Federal health regulators have signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years
June 09, 2026
OpenAI said on Monday it confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering recently, joining rival Anthropic in a push toward the stock market as investors seek exposure to
June 09, 2026
Apollo and Blackstone are financing a $35 billion expansion of AI computing capacity for Anthropic using Broadcom's custom chips and networking solutions as part of a tie-up between
June 09, 2026
FDA approves new sunscreen ingredient used for years in Europe and Asia
June 09, 2026
Apple unveiled its long-awaited overhaul of Siri, introducing a new AI-powered version of the personal assistant alongside expanded child-safety tools and software updates across
June 09, 2026
The global vaccine group Gavi said on Monday it hopes to use $600 million in soon-to-be-restored U.S. funding to boost malaria and other vaccination
June 08, 2026
A historically strong earthquake struck off Cuba's northwest coast on Monday, according to official reports, shaking parts of Cuba, Mexico and Florida that are
June 09, 2026
The U.S.
June 09, 2026
Electricity supplies in New York have shrunk over the last five years, leaving one of the most populous U.S. states at risk of falling short of the energy
June 09, 2026
Why did thousands of squid wash up on a Massachusetts beach? Harbormaster explains "completely natural process."
June 09, 2026
Researchers commissioned by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms have released their findings independently
June 09, 2026
Summer berries can be full of pesticides. Learn the best ways to wash them
June 09, 2026
SpaceX's $75 billion IPO is fuelling a frenzy among investors in Asia for ETFs and supply chain partners linked to
June 09, 2026
China is preparing to spend around 2 trillion yuan ($295.43 billion) over the next five years on building data centers across the country, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, as
June 09, 2026
The World Cup kicks off on Thursday as a celebration of goals, drama and global fandom, but it is also expected to carry a climate cost more than
June 09, 2026
Samsung Electronics is considering the construction of an advanced semiconductor packaging facility in the southwestern South Korean city of Gwangju, the Korea Economic Daily
June 09, 2026
Apple's newly introduced AI Siri will have limited use across much of the company's install base because older iPhones lack the capabilities to run advanced AI features, Morgan
June 09, 2026
OpenAI confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering recently, the ChatGPT maker said on Monday, joining rival Anthropic in a push toward
June 09, 2026
GSK has agreed to buy U.S.-listed cancer drug developer Nuvalent for $10.6 billion in its largest deal in more than a decade, marking a
June 09, 2026
Global airlines' push to attract premium customers is making fast in-flight Wi-Fi an increasingly important perk, turning a once-patchy paid
June 09, 2026
Nearly a month into one of the world’s largest ever Ebola outbreaks, medics in eastern
June 09, 2026
China-linked hackers posed the biggest espionage threat to technology companies over the past year, CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, said in a report published on
June 09, 2026
Brazilian planemaker Embraer expects electric aircraft subsidiary Eve to contribute $1 billion to $1.5 billion of revenue per year after its production
June 09, 2026
A new database includes more than 850 dissertations and theses, spanning everything from baseball slang and cigarette smoking to postage stamps and ballpark organs.
June 09, 2026
Data science and machine learning algorithms can help us form probabilistic forecasts of things like sporting events.
June 09, 2026
At least 100 people have died from Ebola less than a month after authorities declared an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo
June 09, 2026
The risk to firefighters isn’t just from breathing wildfire smoke – it’s also in the chemicals that get on their clothes and filter through to their skin.
June 09, 2026
Rare footage of Mediterranean great white shark captured by ghost diver
June 09, 2026
How high-tech walls are helping elephants thrive at Zoo Atlanta
June 09, 2026
Apple and the European Union are blaming each other for delaying the rollout of Apple's Siri AI app to European users
June 09, 2026
A Maryland family struggled with their child's hidden seizures. New technology gave them answers.
June 09, 2026
Honest conversations between parents and teens can help incoming college students make safer choices and be more aware of risks.
June 09, 2026
Observing how grown-ups operate provides children with information on how they can shape their worlds to get what they want and avoid what they don’t want.
June 09, 2026
Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher — a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that captures the movement of muscles, tendons and ligaments beneath the skin
June 09, 2026
Dubbed "Leonardo's Ferry," a cable-guided vessel offers commuters a peaceful five-minute ride across northern Italy's Adda River
June 09, 2026
What screwworm means for your beef prices
June 09, 2026
Chinese humanoid robots are making waves with their ability to do backflips, direct traffic and even make coffee
June 06, 2026
Survivors including health and aid workers recall their experiences and lessons during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo
June 09, 2026
The U.S. confirmed three additional cases of New World screwworm on Monday, raising the total number of cases to five since the first domestic screwworm infestation
June 08, 2026
OpenAI has filed preliminary paperwork to potentially become a publicly traded company
June 09, 2026
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines, killing at least 35 people
June 08, 2026
Atkins High School students create AI tool to diagnose Parkinson’s disease
June 09, 2026
Prostate cancer survivor offers free screenings at Des Moines Farmer's Market
June 09, 2026
Dead juvenile humpback whale draws crowds in Pacific Grove
June 09, 2026
'Community-wide kind of testing': Wastewater testing monitors pathogens during College World Series
June 09, 2026
New image of the Crystal Ball Nebula captures the ‘spectacular’ throes of a dying star
June 09, 2026
Apple on Monday rolled out a long-delayed overhaul of Siri, betting the
June 08, 2026
Bay Area Filipino community worried after 7.8 quake strikes southern Philippines
June 09, 2026
Apple finally lays out its AI plans with a brand new version of Siri
June 08, 2026
Apple is unveiling new artificial intelligence features at its annual developers conference
June 06, 2026
Filmmakers capture the deepest part of Lake Superior as part of new documentary
June 09, 2026
The director-general of the World Health Organization said on Monday that Uganda should reconsider its decision to close its border with Democratic Republic of Congo
June 08, 2026
Dozens killed after deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits southern Philippines
June 08, 2026
FIFA picked Green Valley Turf in Platteville to grow natural grass turf for three of the sixteen World Cup sites. The challenge? The grass must grow indoors without direct sunlight.
June 08, 2026
Childhood egg allergies fall as early introduction becomes more common, new study finds
June 08, 2026
Nashville Zoo fights proposed data center next door, citing risks to rare animals
June 08, 2026
Eli Lilly shares rose 4% on Monday, driven by compelling new data for its next-generation obesity drug, retatrutide, with analysts and investors expecting it to extend the
June 08, 2026
Ötzi the Iceman is long dead, but some of his ancient microbes are still alive
June 08, 2026
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi called on Iran on Monday to "re-engage" with him so inspections can resume at sites the U.S
June 08, 2026
Alphabet's Google has placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than three million tensor processing units in 2028, The Information reported on Monday, citing people with
June 08, 2026
The late-night eating habit that may throw your gut health into chaos
June 08, 2026
New research on ShotSpotter’s deployment in Detroit suggests the technology did not reduce officer response times.
June 08, 2026
You know how important the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were to making the United States. But do you know about The Federalist and the crucial role it played in the founding era?
June 08, 2026
Tropical Storm Boris has formed and is expected to bring heavy rain to parts of southern Mexico's Pacific coast
June 08, 2026
Scientists study small galaxies to look for hints of dark matter in the universe.
June 08, 2026
Immune cells can carry HIV into the brain, leading to problems with memory and cognition. Blocking other immune cells from the brain can make matters worse.
June 08, 2026
Make sure to take precautions when traveling during extreme summer heat
June 08, 2026
When SpaceX goes public on Friday with what is expected to be a record-setting IPO, it will cap two decades of founder and CEO Elon Musk's ambition to
June 08, 2026
Like many ranchers in South Texas, Susan Storey said nightmarish screwworm outbreaks were among her first childhood memories.
June 08, 2026
Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.
June 08, 2026
Space infrastructure company Quantum Space said on Monday it would go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Inflection Point Acquisition in a deal that
June 08, 2026
One of the first things visitors arriving in Mexico City for the World Cup are likely to see is the wide grin of an axolotl, with the salamander unique
June 08, 2026
Nvidia's entry into the AI PC market with its RTX Spark superchip last week is less a breakthrough for regular users than a high-stakes bet that a
June 08, 2026
Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it will acquire biotech Firefly Bio for $1 billion in cash, as it looks to expand its cancer drug pipeline.
June 08, 2026
Uber and Wayve team up to launch driverless cars in London this summer
June 08, 2026
Panasonic Holdings
June 08, 2026
The death toll in a powerful 7.8‑magnitude earthquake off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Monday has
June 08, 2026
Epidemiologists will be busy this summer sifting through sewage and social media with the goal of keeping soccer fans and the public safe from severe illness during
June 08, 2026
Samsung Electronics' co-CEO and head of its chip division, Jun Young-hyun, said on Monday he discussed cooperation in next-generation foundry chips with Nvidia CEO Jensen
June 08, 2026
A Ukrainian drone crossed into Moldova early on Monday and fragments of it showing traces of an explosion were found in a field near the eastern village of Lopatna, not
June 08, 2026
Nvidia on Monday announced a series of deals in South Korea with tech giants including SK Hynix and Naver, as it looks to secure crucial
June 08, 2026
The Japanese city of Utsunomiya has suspended all 94 of the primary and middle schools that it operates on Monday after its first-ever bear sighting, a municipal official
June 08, 2026
By Ben Blanchard, Max A.
June 08, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday that it is partnering with South Korea's tech conglomerate LG Group on humanoid robots and data centers.
June 08, 2026
Health workers inside the epicenter of Congo's outbreak say they are working with little pay or rest
June 07, 2026
When Apple holds its developer conference at its Cupertino, California headquarters on Monday, the big draw will be a widely expected overhaul to Siri, the AI
June 08, 2026
Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died
June 08, 2026
Respiratory diseases like measles and flu pose a much bigger threat to public health for the World Cup than does Ebola.
June 08, 2026
Italian fashion house Prada <1913
June 08, 2026
Why heat, travel and sleep could challenge teams as much as the opposition at the World Cup
June 07, 2026
The U.S. is lobbying other countries on the U.N. nuclear watchdog's Board of Governors to back a draft resolution demanding that Iran
June 07, 2026
Big beauty brands are going all in on longevity. Here’s what I learned
June 07, 2026
Russian forces deliberately struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine's Chornobyl power plant, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, in an "
June 07, 2026
OpenAI is planning its biggest ChatGPT overhaul yet, aiming to turn it into a "superapp" with coding tools and AI agents to boost revenue ahead of a potential stock market listing,
June 07, 2026
California police roll out AI-powered body cameras that translate over 50 languages in real time
June 07, 2026
Where do the fish at the New England Aquarium in Boston come from? They're not plucked from the ocean.
June 07, 2026
A Maine gubernatorial candidate is running as a political outsider. His last name is Bush
June 06, 2026
The Russian-installed management of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant said on Saturday that it had restored the Ferrosplavnaya-1 power line, which supplies
June 06, 2026
A total solar eclipse will occur this summer. Everything you need to know
June 06, 2026
Wearing earplugs at concerts can help prevent hearing damage
June 06, 2026
California, New York and other U.S. states are preparing a lawsuit to block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros, sources familiar with the
June 05, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers
June 06, 2026
A second case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite was confirmed in Texas by the U.S.
June 06, 2026
A Los Angeles jury on Friday sided with Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit by the families of three women who alleged that the company's talc products
June 06, 2026
Marvell Technology is set to join the benchmark S&P 500 later this month, S&P Dow Jones Indices said on Friday, after the chipmaker cleared a key profitability hurdle riding an AI-
June 06, 2026
Anthropic is calling on major artificial intelligence labs to consider a coordinated and verifiable pause in development, warning that rapid advances in the
June 05, 2026
Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship
June 06, 2026
East Asia’s tallest tree is the ‘Heaven Sword,’ an environmental guardian
June 06, 2026
U.S.
June 06, 2026
The Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could grow to 20,000 cases or more, depending on how quickly infected people are isolated to slow the spread
June 06, 2026
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is concerned that a new factory isn’t expected to start work for more than a year on mitigating the New World screwworm fly infestation in his state
June 06, 2026
The White House said on Friday it would accelerate the development and use of AI for national security applications, while
June 06, 2026
President Donald Trump is calling for the U.S. military and national security agencies to accelerate their use of artificial intelligence
June 06, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday that 71 new Ebola cases were confirmed in a 24-hour period and warned of rapid community transmission of the deadly disease.
June 06, 2026
The quiet Texas cattle town of La Pryor has become ground zero in the fight against screwworm after the first U.S. case in decades was detected
June 05, 2026
U.S.
June 06, 2026
Russia's nuclear energy corporation Rosatom said on Friday that a Ukrainian drone had deliberately struck engineers demining an area around the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear
June 05, 2026
U.S.
June 04, 2026
Oklahoma prepares for potential spread of screwworm pest
June 06, 2026
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark explains a need for an option to pause or slow AI advancement, as the technology could eventually build newer versions of itself, with enormous implications for the world.
June 05, 2026
The FDA has launched a safety study of the abortion pill, also called mifepristone, a step that could pave the way for the Trump administration to
June 05, 2026
The Energy Department says a small nuclear reactor under development at a national lab has reached a crucial milestone that could allow it to produce electricity in the next few years
June 06, 2026
A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the country
June 05, 2026
Inside the 6-year process of turning American football fields into World Cup pitches
June 06, 2026
Financial markets are underestimating the economic risks of biodiversity loss, potentially exposing countries to sovereign debt crises and sharply higher
June 05, 2026
NASA ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station to take shelter and prepare for possible evacuation for on Friday as a Russian crew tried to fix a
June 05, 2026
A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours on
June 05, 2026
Global oil inventories are running dangerously low as a deal to re-open tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has
June 05, 2026
NASA directs its ISS crew members to board spacecraft amid leak repair attempt
June 05, 2026
Anthropic is proposing that top AI companies coordinate a way to pause the development of advanced AI systems if they become too dangerous
June 05, 2026
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have briefly taken shelter during a repair to fix a new leak
June 05, 2026
A sea drone self-destructed near an oil terminal in Romania's Black Sea port of Constanta on Friday, without causing casualties, as Ukraine said Russia
June 05, 2026
The World Health Organization chief announced a $518 million six-month joint plan to fight Ebola on Friday, calling for money and
June 05, 2026
The United States is preparing a draft resolution condemning Iran ahead of next week's meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's Board
June 05, 2026
In Congo, the battle against the rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola has been complicated by skepticism, attacks on health workers and misinformation
June 05, 2026
The Trump administration's Friday auction of oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge attracted only $3.7 million in winning bids for five
June 05, 2026
A Carnegie Mellon researcher explains the connection between our brains and AI chatbots – and what a new Pennsylvania lawsuit reveals about the dangers of AI.
June 05, 2026
Generating solar power requires a lot of land – but which land should it be? And what else can be done on that land?
June 05, 2026
Amanita mushroom poisonings prompt concerns after deaths. A doctor explains what to know
June 05, 2026
The long-awaited, massive SpaceX initial public offering is expected next week, a major event for the U.S. stock market, with investors wary of possible
June 05, 2026
The World Trade Organization said on Friday there were signs global merchandise trade growth may be starting to slow, though it had shown resilience in
June 05, 2026
A physical chemist outlines the promises and risks associated with methane fuel and describes why SpaceX and Blue Origin use it in their superheavy rockets.
June 05, 2026
A healthier gut may be key to cancer care
June 05, 2026
Anthropic warns that AI will soon be able to improve itself without human intervention
June 05, 2026
A federal judge in Washington has blocked a plan to loosen rules for fishing red snapper in the Atlantic, halting what was expected to be the longest recreational snapper season in years
June 05, 2026
A months-long dispute between Trump administration officials and AI firm Anthropic is showing signs of easing across parts of the U.S.
June 05, 2026
Most of the 13 U.S. treatment centers in a government-funded hospital network for severe infectious diseases are ready to handle patients, including those with
June 05, 2026
A year ago, Ryan Tseng, the head of U.S. defense tech startup Shield AI, announced his company had turned a new page.
June 05, 2026
Popping a cold beer — or two or three — while watching sports at home, at a bar or during a live game is an age-old tradition
June 05, 2026
Miraculous story of survival high on Everest as Sherpa guide missing for a week found alive
June 05, 2026
Japan could fall prey to a new form of colonialism in the AI era if it fails to keep pace with the technology's rapid development, the country's digital
June 05, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook The drawdown in tech stocks that has followed a narrow earnings miss at U.S. chipmaker Broadcom deepened in Asia on Friday,
June 05, 2026
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an "exponential" expansion of the country's atomic arsenal during a visit to a newly operational nuclear material
June 04, 2026
The Pan American Health Organization said on Thursday it is stepping up efforts to help countries across the Americas to strengthen their preparedness for Ebola, although the risk
June 05, 2026
Following the first confirmation of screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, on a U.S. farm in decades, federal and
June 04, 2026
Shares of Quantinuum rose 13.3% in their Nasdaq debut, fetching a valuation of $17.63 billion as Honeywell's quantum computing company became
June 04, 2026
The New World screwworm fly is threatening the $113 billion U.S. cattle industry for the first time in more than a half century
June 05, 2026
A bipartisan pair of U.S.
June 04, 2026
'Smelled like a clogged toilet': Family experienced travel horror story aboard Turkish Airlines flight
June 05, 2026
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration's attempt to dismantle Boulder's NCAR lab
June 05, 2026
A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog
June 05, 2026
The number of ozone-related premature deaths due to wildfires is also rising.
June 05, 2026
The Trump administration agreed to strip endangered species protection from a lizard whose habitat overlapped the largest oil-producing region in the United
June 05, 2026
San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly on Thursday said that while she believes AI over a five- to 10-year window could be a deflationary force, the effect is "not a
June 04, 2026
Louisville Zoo announces birth of 3 tiger cubs, the first in decades
June 05, 2026
Cullman woman is first patient to receive medical cannabis in Alabama
June 05, 2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning that foreign artificial intelligence platforms could be used against Canadians
June 04, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in May Ukraine would buy 20 of Saab's Gripen E fighter jets and Sweden will gift another 16 of an older
October 22, 2025
The U.N. nuclear watchdog sent a report to member states on Thursday with no major changes to its assessment of Iran's nuclear programme, despite three months of U.S.-
June 04, 2026
Goldman Sachs expects revenue from SpaceX's AI division to surge to $322 billion by 2030, up from $3.2 billion in 2025, according to the Wall Street bank's forecasts shared with a
June 04, 2026
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas
June 04, 2026
The U.N. nuclear watchdog has been unable to inspect nuclear facilities in Iran affected by the war last June, according to a confidential report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog
June 04, 2026
Fossil reveals bizarre gliding creature that hunted birds 120 million years ago
June 04, 2026
Researchers say this new Trump rule could destroy American science as we know it. They’re fighting back
June 04, 2026
Guns are what make violent partners so dangerous. And in the US, Black women get less protection from laws meant to keep firearms out of abusers’ hands.
June 04, 2026
Some of what happens during youth can’t be reversed. It’s another reason to rethink kids’ screen time
June 04, 2026
Hungarian authorities ordered the culling of 3,000 pigs on a farm after African swine fever was reported in domestic pigs for the first time in the country, the National
June 04, 2026
A team of researchers worked grueling, hot hours in the desert to understand the history of life in Earth’s oceans after a major extinction event.
June 04, 2026
Authoritarian governments, including the Trump administration, are reorienting AI safety provisions away from protecting the public toward coercing support for the regime.
June 04, 2026
Ben Franklin led an effort to print paper bills in the American colonies, after a coin shortage constrained the economy.
June 04, 2026
Patience is a virtue that researchers have linked to many parts of well-being. But it’s also something that needs a bit of practice and training – and can be undermined by instant, easy gratification.
June 04, 2026
About a third of Americans report using high-interest credit cards for everyday expenses as costs continue to rise.
June 04, 2026
Approximately 400,000 bison roam the North American landscape today, of which nearly 90% are considered livestock.
June 04, 2026
Amazon on Thursday unveiled an upgraded AI-powered mobile robot for its warehouses that can respond to conversational prompts, as part of a €10
June 04, 2026
Supporters of a long-stalled push to expand nationwide sales of higher-ethanol E15 gasoline are pursuing an uphill
June 04, 2026
Satellite images obtained by Reuters confirmed the presence of a structure at the entrance of the hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South
June 04, 2026
Kim Jong Un inspects new nuclear plant, plans ‘exponential’ weapons production ramp-up
June 04, 2026
Foxconn said on Thursday it will work with U.S. chipmaker Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-generation AI infrastructure and intelligent computing platforms in a move
June 04, 2026
Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, is striving to keep up with demand and avoid becoming a bottleneck in the global supply chain
June 04, 2026
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has visited a new facility to produce nuclear materials and announced plans to bolster the country’s nuclear forces “at an exponential rate."
June 04, 2026
Honeywell Aerospace told investors on Wednesday that it expects to book $6.5 billion in adjusted earnings by 2030, fueled by strong demand from jetmakers and
June 03, 2026
Meta has repeatedly pushed back plans to release its new Muse Spark AI model API to developers, and as of Tuesday, had no scheduled launch date, the Wall Street Journal reported,
June 04, 2026
Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings this year at eye-popping valuations
June 04, 2026
Flesh-eating New World screwworm detected in Texas calf, USDA says, signaling major threat to food production
June 04, 2026
Foodborne illnesses kill millions. Make these changes to reduce your risk
June 04, 2026
SpaceX secured tax incentives on Wednesday for its proposed Terafab chip manufacturing project in Grimes County, Texas,
June 03, 2026
Honeywell's Quantinuum said on Wednesday it has raised $1.68 billion in its U.S. initial public offering after pricing shares at $60 apiece, as
June 04, 2026
There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship
June 04, 2026
Americans who test positive for Ebola at Kenya facility could be treated in US, federal officials say
June 04, 2026
The Canadian government has endorsed a plan to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park and zoo in Ontario to aquariums in the U.S. and Spain
June 04, 2026
Acting U.S.
June 04, 2026
A commercial bus crash in Virginia that killed five people and injured dozens of others has raised questions about the driver, the company that employed him and the overall safety of the industry
June 04, 2026
The oceans are in deep trouble. The Trump administration is ditching a vital deep-sea monitoring system
June 04, 2026
The World Health Organization chief says Congo's Ebola outbreak had a head start but that testing is improving, even as violence plagues the region
June 03, 2026
Trump’s new ‘Aliens’ website exploits UFO intrigue to demean immigrants
June 04, 2026
Oil prices rose following the latest threats to the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, and U.S. stocks retreated from their records
June 03, 2026
The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear
June 04, 2026
Around 20 flights carrying medical equipment and specialist staff have landed at a base in Kenya where the U.S. government is continuing
June 03, 2026
British lawmaker Jess Asato is suing Elon Musk's xAI, saying in a statement on Wednesday the Grok AI platform had been used to create fake sexualised images of her.
June 04, 2026
Uber has committed close to half a billion dollars in self-driving startup Nuro, two sources directly aware of the matter told Reuters, detailing the
June 04, 2026
It’s a fight for two lives: a mother is trying to survive for her unborn daughter
June 04, 2026
Tesla said on Wednesday it was rolling out its unsupervised robotaxis in the Austin Metro area in Texas, as the electric-vehicle maker looks to speed up its autonomous ride-hailing
June 03, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will advocate against proposals that AI developers obtain U.S. government approval before releasing new models to the public,
June 03, 2026
The increasing need for memory chips to power artificial intelligence data centers could lead to dramatic price hikes in U.S. consumer goods and
June 03, 2026
Georgia's oldest city is welcoming a truckload of historical treasures from the earlier period of U.S. history
June 03, 2026
The National Hurricane Center says the first tropical storm of the Pacific season has formed
June 03, 2026
According to a United Nations University report, the environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries
June 03, 2026
FWC testing for algae following fish kill at Laishley Park Marina in Punta Gorda, Florida
June 03, 2026
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the world is "catching up" with the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo, where
June 03, 2026
Steven Spielberg's “Disclosure Day” returns Hollywood’s preeminent big-screen craftsman to one of his most abiding questions: Are we alone
June 03, 2026
Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen’s home within the hive
June 03, 2026
Table tennis helps metro Atlantans with neurological disorders bounce back
June 03, 2026
USA Rare Earth said on Wednesday it has signed agreements with the U.S.
June 03, 2026
For the past century, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet was one of Indonesia's most elusive birds, known only from a 2014 photographic record and a handful of museum
June 03, 2026
Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled an artificial intelligence agent aimed at helping businesses carry out day-to-day operations, positioning the social media
June 03, 2026
A special Philippine task force said on Wednesday that it is investigating reports of an alleged new structure on the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea,
June 03, 2026
A growing body of evidence suggests that popular GLP-1 drugs, widely used for weight loss and diabetes, can provide protection against many types of cancer.
June 03, 2026
Cathy Smithwick, now 67, has lived with breast cancer, and then ovarian cancer, for more than 20 years with the help of targeted drugs, drugs that harness the
June 03, 2026
Multiple teachers diagnosed with breast cancer at Uxbridge, Massachusetts high school, prompting investigation
June 03, 2026
The European Commission proposed laws on Wednesday to boost domestic cloud, AI and semiconductor industries and cut reliance on U.S.
June 03, 2026
New research offers a cautionary tale about the difficulty of removing ‘forever chemicals’ from the environment.
June 03, 2026
The term’s contradictory uses signal deeper worries about cultural fragmenting and algorithmic-induced flattening.
June 03, 2026
(Amends dateline) By Gleb Bryanski and Elena Fabrichnaya ST.
June 03, 2026
The world’s biggest tech companies are betting big on computers that control themselves
June 03, 2026
South Korea and the U.S. held inaugural talks this week to discuss nuclear cooperation under a joint fact sheet on security agreed by U.S.
June 03, 2026
The European Central Bank met commercial lenders last week to discuss the potential threat from the newest artificial intelligence models and will follow up with demands
June 03, 2026
Ultraprocessed food scientists say Americans are ‘fed up’ with industry and government inaction
June 03, 2026
DeepSeek, China's best-known AI startup, is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round from investors including Tencent Holdings and CATL, people
June 03, 2026
Rescuers in Laos say they are investigating a possible “knocking response” deep inside a flooded cave network where two men are believed to remain trapped. The response sounds came as rescuers rappelled down a newly discovered vertical shaft that may provide a safer entry into a flooded cave and lead to a chamber where the men could be.
June 01, 2026
Bayer has no plans to spin off Monsanto, a representative said on Tuesday, even as the company faces an avalanche of lawsuits over its
June 03, 2026
Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators
June 03, 2026
The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science Foundation
June 03, 2026
OpenAI's ChatGPT has crossed 1 billion global monthly active app users, becoming the fastest app ever to reach the milestone, according to estimates from market intelligence firm
June 03, 2026
The Trump administration will ask leading AI developers to voluntarily submit their most capable models for government
June 02, 2026
U.S.
June 02, 2026
The El Nino weather pattern is forming, and is expected to cause extreme weather around the world this year, the WMO said on Tuesday.
June 02, 2026
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a sweeping slate of AI initiatives, from autonomous workplace assistants and gadgets to Nvidia-
June 02, 2026
Anthropic on Tuesday said it was planning a wider rollout of its artificial intelligence that has caught the attention of government and financial
June 02, 2026
Meta is dialing back elements of its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for use as AI training data, it said in an internal memo on
June 03, 2026
Maryland schools to implement AI guidance, training under new law taking effect Monday
June 03, 2026
The U.S. Department of Energy said on Tuesday it has selected projects in Louisiana and Oklahoma for $134 million in funding to extract rare earth elements from waste streams.
June 02, 2026
As more countries ban waste imports, plastic waste generators like the US will need to find better solutions. A few states are putting more responsibility on producers.
June 03, 2026
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a new quantum computing chip that it redesigned with the help of AI, saying it now believes it will have commercially
June 03, 2026
Many employees say they prefer flexibility when it comes to working in the office, but they find it creates uncertainty and unpredictability.
June 03, 2026
Trump signs executive order asking for access to new AI models before they launch
June 03, 2026
President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order on oversight of artificial intelligence, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology
June 02, 2026
People are flooding AI chatbots with health questions. Microsoft is teaming up with Mayo Clinic to help
June 03, 2026
Blue Origin will return its New Glenn rocket to flight before the year ends, CEO Dave Limp said late on Monday, days after one of the rockets exploded, damaging the
June 02, 2026
Around 97% of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer die within five years. Researchers have figured out a way to target the mechanism that makes these tumors so deadly.
June 02, 2026
A parasitic fly that eats warm-blooded animals alive and could cause millions of dollars in economic damage was found in Mexico within 25 miles of the
June 02, 2026
The U.S.
June 02, 2026
Rescuers search for new ways into cave in Laos where two men feared trapped
June 01, 2026
NOAA celebrates 50 years of 'riding a roller coaster through a washing machine'
June 02, 2026
Pints of Science' at New World Tampa blends beer and brainpower at monthly minglings
June 02, 2026
Letting private companies use Cold War-era plutonium could set a dangerous precedent, senator says
June 02, 2026
Micron Technology's march toward a $1 trillion valuation is nothing if not dramatic: a year ago it was a little over $100 billion.
June 02, 2026
The World Health Organization said there have been 321 confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak and 116
June 02, 2026
Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced a new suite of software tools that businesses can use to build their own armies of bots known as AI agents, to
June 02, 2026
Morningstar analysts pegged SpaceX's valuation at $780 billion, less than half of what the Elon Musk-led company is reportedly targeting in its initial public
June 02, 2026
Women are over-apologizing. It’s more complex than you might think
June 02, 2026
New AI-based facial recognition techniques are reducing false positive and false negative matches.
June 02, 2026
White Americans who watch Fox News are more likely to agree that shadowy political elites are embracing permissive immigration policies to replace native-born white Americans.
June 02, 2026
By Max A.
June 02, 2026
Shares of Fulcrum Therapeutics plunged 50% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company said it would abandon development of its experimental sickle-cell disease drug following
June 02, 2026
The United Nations weather agency forecast on Tuesday a moderate or possibly a strong El Nino that could drive up global temperatures and increase the
June 02, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has issued a manifesto calling for robust regulation of artificial intelligence
June 02, 2026
America’s stock market is surging, but it’s still all about AI
June 02, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo has re-opened the airport in the capital city of the province hit hardest by the ongoing Ebola outbreak, a government statement said,
June 02, 2026
The Taiwan military's top weapons development institute showed off on Tuesday three robot patrol dogs that could one day be used on Taiwan's islands in the disputed South
June 02, 2026
Healthcare officials in the U.S., including former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials, on Monday warned Congress against adopting a proposed policy to treat
June 02, 2026
Archaeologists are digging beneath Notre Dame cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago
June 02, 2026
The cost of using AI will rise in less predictable ways as companies deploy the technology for complex tasks, the head of Australia's biggest bank said on Tuesday, calling
June 02, 2026
Damage to a Blue Origin launch pad from the spectacular explosion of the company's giant New Glenn rocket during a test firing of its engines last week will "take some serious time"
June 02, 2026
Some hantavirus-exposed cruise ship passengers return home to finish quarantine
June 02, 2026
NASA says a fireball as heavy as an elephant caused the double boom that rang out over New England
June 02, 2026
Five American cruise ship passengers exposed to hantavirus are leaving a Nebraska quarantine facility
June 02, 2026
Eight crested ibises have been released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after going extinct in the country
June 01, 2026
Duke Energy, one of the largest U.S. electric utilities, said on Monday it has talked to hyperscalers about the prospect of building new
June 02, 2026
The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks
June 01, 2026
Wyoming is close to designating a migration corridor for pronghorn, a move conservation biologist Joel Berger has long supported
June 01, 2026
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is moving toward going public on Wall Street, the latest chapter in its meteoric rise from a little-known research laboratory to one of the leading AI companies valued at $965 billion
June 01, 2026
Florida sues OpenAI, alleging it’s unsafe for children
June 02, 2026
Emergency fish salvage in place at reservoir on Colorado's Eastern Plains
June 02, 2026
Kīlauea eruption episode 48 begins early Monday morning
June 02, 2026
Anthropic files to go public in a potentially trillion-dollar debut
June 01, 2026
Congo has confirmed at least 282 Ebola cases in its growing outbreak
June 01, 2026
Merck is in discussions with various global health authorities about making its COVID antiviral pill molnupiravir available as an Ebola treatment to
June 01, 2026
Global health organisation CEPI will give roughly $60 million to Moderna and two other groups to accelerate the development of
June 01, 2026
Florida sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday, accusing the company of misrepresenting the safety of its ChatGPT platform, which the lawsuit said has
June 01, 2026
One way to improve your sleep? Imitate the habits of hunter-gatherers
June 02, 2026
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday concluded his visit to Democratic Republic of Congo by briefing the president on the response to the
June 01, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hosted top South Korean tech executives including the boss of chipmaker SK Hynix at a boisterous dinner on Monday,
June 01, 2026
By Max A.
June 01, 2026
The outcomes of most of the United Nations' recent COP climate summits have fallen short of the more ambitious action scientists say is needed to address climate change,
June 01, 2026
Nvidia has turned the spotlight on AI PCs after CEO Jensen Huang launched a new chip that would put artificial intelligence capabilities directly into laptops and desktop computers,
June 01, 2026
Rare blue micromoon dances through Massachusetts sky
June 01, 2026
Central Florida 7-year-old joins Mensa after scoring in top 0.1% of her age group
June 01, 2026
Birmingham Zoo bird thrives after receiving custom prosthetic beak from UAB dental team
June 01, 2026
Nvidia has unveiled powerful new chips to bring advanced artificial intelligence to Windows laptops and desktops
June 01, 2026
Subsidized insurance makes waterfront property seem safer than it is for wealthier buyers, while many low-income homeowners face repeat disasters with no help.
June 01, 2026
Uncertainty is common in medicine, and AI isn’t very good at navigating it.
June 01, 2026
A photographer describes how your phone camera flattens and dulls the colors in photos – and how to regain an appreciation for the wide spectrum of colors.
June 01, 2026
The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some developers are getting closer
May 29, 2026
Many Black teachers were pushed out of classrooms from the 1950s through ‘70s. Despite new recruitment programs, the teacher workforce remains mostly white.
June 01, 2026
Flamingos are flocking to the Venetian Lagoon in record numbers as ecological efforts restore damaged wetlands
May 31, 2026
Four nurses who were being treated for Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus have been discharged from a hospital in Bunia in the Democratic
May 31, 2026
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket experienced an anomaly during a ground test known as a hotfire Thursday in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the company shared on X. "All personnel are accounted for," according to the X post.
May 29, 2026
Kenya pushes ahead with Ebola quarantine facility in partnership with US despite court order
May 29, 2026
Russia's state nuclear energy company Rosatom said on Saturday a Ukrainian drone had struck the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest, causing no
May 30, 2026
The World Health Organisation chief travelled on Saturday to the Congolese province hardest hit by an Ebola outbreak, urging residents to seek
May 30, 2026
Dead gray whale found in water off California coast
May 30, 2026
The head of the World Health Organization has visited Bunia in eastern Congo, where a rare Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly
May 30, 2026
The American Cancer Society updated its colorectal cancer screening guidelines to reflect advances in technology and increase access to screening.
May 30, 2026
AI chip firm Nvidia and Microsoft are expected next week to debut the first Windows PCs that use Nvidia's chips as the main processor, Axios reported on Saturday, citing sources.
May 30, 2026
A violent volcanic eruption may have revealed a new weapon to tackle a potent planet-heating gas
May 30, 2026
A visual guide to the Laos cave rescue
May 30, 2026
Blue Origin faces a months-long setback after the explosion of a rocket damaged its launch pad, company and industry sources said, scrambling schedules for
May 30, 2026
Postpartum depression is a potentially dangerous condition that can fill a typically joyous time with despair
May 30, 2026
The United States, Britain and Australia are working together to develop unmanned undersea vehicles as part of their trilateral AUKUS defence pact, U.S.
May 30, 2026
For many in Congo and elsewhere in Central and West Africa, there is no shame in craving wild meat, a key part of the culture
May 30, 2026
Donald Trump’s physician says the president is in “excellent health” and is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief after a medical exam Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
May 30, 2026
President Donald Trump is giving his endorsement to a January study by the Department of Health and Human Services that calls for cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every American child
May 30, 2026
California air regulators have updated a key climate program Friday
May 30, 2026
Crews have recovered another victim from a massive chemical tank rupture at a paper mill in Washington state
May 30, 2026
U.S.
May 30, 2026
A devastating parasitic fly that eats warm-blooded animals alive and could cause millions of dollars in economic damage to the U.S. economy has been
May 30, 2026
What is a blue moon? Everything to know before the upcoming celestial event
May 29, 2026
To travel far on cloudy days, pigeons listen to their gut
May 29, 2026
White House breaks from precedent by not releasing Trump’s medical report
May 30, 2026
California warns of wild mushroom poisoning outbreak after 50 cases and four deaths
May 30, 2026
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is assessing damage to its Florida launch pad after a rocket exploded during a test firing
May 29, 2026
The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year
May 30, 2026
The Trump administration issued a sweeping demand to Mexico to raise the level of regional
May 29, 2026
The U.S. Space Force said on Friday it has awarded Elon Musk's IPO-bound SpaceX a $4.16 billion deal for a satellite program designed to track and target airborne threats.
May 30, 2026
The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Congo's capital, Kinshasa, to support efforts against an Ebola outbreak
May 29, 2026
Geography may not provide meaningful protection once an outbreak is already underway.
May 30, 2026
NASA has several contracts with Blue Origin as part of its Artemis program – this setback for the company could delay the program.
May 29, 2026
The U.S.
May 29, 2026
Iran and the United States are in discussions to extend their ceasefire so as to start negotiations on issues including Tehran's nuclear program, where
May 30, 2026
The White House is moving to give political appointees more control over federal grants
May 29, 2026
A Russian Oreshnik missile fired at Ukraine in January appears to have been made nine years ago and contains only Russian and Belarusian components, Ukrainian
May 29, 2026
China's Shenzhou-21 crew of three astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after nearly seven months in space and were in good health, state media reported.
May 29, 2026
Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after spending seven months in space
May 29, 2026
When AMD CEO Lisa Su
May 29, 2026
Thousands of households in southeast England were left without water or facing low pressure during a record-breaking heatwave
May 29, 2026
Future missions may be able to take only a small, damaged sample from space back to Earth. A simple analysis tool could help determine whether its contents suggest the presence of life.
May 29, 2026
The mummy of a child from the Inca period, discovered frozen in 1905 on a mountain in northwestern Argentina, has been returned to an indigenous
May 29, 2026
Protect yourself from contagious viruses (and we don’t mean Ebola), with these expert tips
May 29, 2026
Contrary to the belief that an immigration crackdown would lead to more jobs for US-born workers, ICE enforcement hasn’t produced economic gains for Americans.
May 29, 2026
Polycystic ovary syndrome is an inaccurate name for a condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Its new name can help address missed diagnoses and fragmented care.
May 29, 2026
The Trump administration says it's setting up a "state-of-the-art facility” in Kenya for Americans who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus but who do not have symptoms.
May 29, 2026
The World Health Organization said on Friday that there are 906 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 223 suspected
May 29, 2026
The World Health Organization said on Friday that there were 906 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 223 suspected
May 29, 2026
Iran’s nuclear stockpile — a key part of negotiations to end the war and a focus of Trump’s — explained
May 29, 2026
Hantavirus-exposed cruise passengers may soon be allowed to return home but must remain under 24/7 watch
May 29, 2026
Living, dying (and flying) artworks — Inside Anicka Yi’s ephemeral universe
May 29, 2026
OpenAI has given some Japanese financial institutions access to its GPT-5.5 model to help prevent cyberattacks, Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama
May 29, 2026
At Taiwan's annual Computex trade show next week, the spotlight is likely to be dominated, as usual, by Nvidia and its products, but also by the island's
May 29, 2026
AI ‘voice cloning’ scams are on the rise. Here’s how to protect yourself
May 29, 2026
Electric vehicle maker Lucid is recalling 2,039 vehicles in the U.S. due to a loss of drive power that increases the risk of a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety
May 29, 2026
In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure
May 29, 2026
Blue Origin rocket explodes during ground test
May 29, 2026
For the third time this month, a chip giant has joined the $1 trillion club
May 29, 2026
A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has exploded during a test at the launch pad
May 29, 2026
Huawei's new chip design principle focused on boosting transmission speed rather than continuing to shrink semiconductors offers a path for
May 29, 2026
An uncrewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on a Florida launchpad during a test on Thursday, in a major setback for Jeff Bezos’ space
May 29, 2026
Samsung Electronics on Friday said it started shipping samples of its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chip to customers, pulling ahead of rivals in
May 29, 2026
The Humanoids Summit Tokyo showcases advanced robotics, highlighting China's growing influence
May 28, 2026
New York City residents and visitors are treated to a phenomenon twice a year known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers
May 29, 2026
The United States on Thursday leveled unusually harsh criticism against Russia and called for it to refrain from its promised "
May 29, 2026
Samsung Electronics said on Friday it has started shipping samples of its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chip, or the 12-layer HBM4E, marking what it said was the
May 29, 2026
How a tank rupture disrupted life in a tight-knit Washington town that has lived with pulp mills for generations
May 28, 2026
Australian rare earths miner Viridis Mining and Minerals is in advanced discussions with potential offtake buyers in Europe and the U.S. for its
May 29, 2026
Cheniere Energy Partners said on Thursday it signed a contract with Bechtel Corp for engineering, procurement and construction of the first phase of its Sabine Pass LNG expansion
May 28, 2026
Victims of a 2023 data breach at 23andMe will share $46.75 million under a plan approved by the genetic testing company's bankruptcy administrator, a court
May 29, 2026
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are working to bring in additional investors for about $36 billion debt financing tied to AI startup Anthropic PBC's efforts to expand its AI
May 29, 2026
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the 5-year-old research laboratory behind the Claude chatbot one of the world’s most valuable startups as it careens toward a likely Wall Street debut
May 29, 2026
Newly declassified FBI documents detail UFO sighting by officers — and one of them filmed it
May 29, 2026
San Joaquin County warns of invasive pest threat to Northern California wine industry
May 29, 2026
The World Health Organization recommended prioritizing three experimental treatments for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, including Mapp Biopharmaceutical's MBP134, Regeneron's
May 29, 2026
AI is changing this job so fast the interview process can’t keep up
May 28, 2026
Small biotech firms "latch onto" AI more quickly than bigger firms, the head of Chinese tech giant Tencent's healthcare division said on Thursday, as more businesses
May 28, 2026
IBM said on Thursday it plans to invest more than $10 billion in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build by 2029 the first large-scale quantum computer capable of
May 28, 2026
EQT has partnered with Alphabet's
May 28, 2026
CVS Health will restore Eli Lilly's weight-loss injection Zepbound to its list of covered drugs and add the drugmaker's newly approved obesity pill, Foundayo, it
May 28, 2026
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday it has opened a preliminary probe into 114,922 Rivian vehicles over an issue with the rear toe link.
May 28, 2026
The U.S.
May 28, 2026
Whether they are recruiting the ideal "momfluencer" to sell diapers or trawling through reams of data to fast-track drug launches, global
May 28, 2026
The World Health Organization chief said on Thursday he was on his way to the Democratic Republic of Congo where an Ebola outbreak is outpacing the world's ability to
May 28, 2026
Get set for a rare blue micromoon this weekend
May 28, 2026
The human mind is always searching for meaning in ambiguity. Could misinterpretations of the external world create the experience of the supernatural?
May 28, 2026
Music recorded in 432 hertz is taking off on social media platforms and music streaming services
May 28, 2026
Does a seashell arrangement in the form of the numerals ‘86 47’ amount to a criminal threat to assassinate President Donald Trump, as prosecutors suggest?
May 28, 2026
Young men seek muscle in the ‘Wild West’ of alternative PEDs
May 28, 2026
A bat biologist walks through the steps for persuading a bat to leave your home, and what to do when a whole family decides to roost in your attic.
May 28, 2026
Aid supplies have been rushed in to the center of Congo's Ebola outbreak where medical workers are struggling with equipment shortages, distrustful locals and armed groups
May 28, 2026
When AI is used to manufacture fake endorsements, copyright law doesn’t do enough to protect celebrities, influencers and other public figures.
May 28, 2026
Seeking a second opinion is a patient’s right. Knowing how empowering another perspective can be may make it less awkward to ask for one.
May 28, 2026
The U.S. is setting up a facility in Kenya to quarantine U.S. citizens who have been exposed to Ebola, and will not bring them home
May 28, 2026
Nebius Group's shares climbed 9% on Thursday after a fund run by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner disclosed a stake in the AI infrastructure firm.
May 28, 2026
Shares of biotech-turned-AI company Rocket One jumped almost 40% on Thursday as the company rebranded to capitalize on hot investment themes, a strategy many
May 28, 2026
The first doses of an experimental antiviral for hantavirus treatment are being dispatched to France, Spain and the Netherlands, the European Commission said on Thursday.
May 28, 2026
Pope Leo this week repudiated a major teaching used by the Catholic Church since at least the fifth century to evaluate when countries might be
May 28, 2026
The World Health Organization said on Thursday on X that, in partnership with the national medical research organization of the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is scaling
May 28, 2026
A key challenge for the Federal Reserve is that higher gas prices are inflationary, but they also reduce households’ spending power and dampen growth.
May 28, 2026
Massive marine predator crowned T. rex of the ocean and ‘a true terror of its time’
May 28, 2026
Groq is raising up to $650 million from existing investors, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday, after the AI chip startup signed a $17 billion licensing deal
May 28, 2026
Anthropic will continue expanding in Europe after opening its sixth office on the continent in Milan on Thursday, Chris Ciauri, managing director for international at the U.S
May 28, 2026
Vaping is often touted as less toxic than smoking. But new research raises concerns about cancer risk
May 28, 2026
Kenya has approved a request from the U.S. to open a quarantine facility in the East African nation for Americans exposed to Ebola, U.S. officials told Reuters on
May 28, 2026
A senior TSMC executive said on Thursday that surging electricity demands from AI are making energy efficiency rather than computing power the main
May 28, 2026
Microsoft will unveil a suite of new homegrown AI models next week at its annual "Build" conference for developers in San Francisco, including a coding model to boost the usage of
May 28, 2026
A study details a surprising new way into how pigeons find their way home
May 29, 2026
Anthropic said on Thursday it has raised $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion, as it aims to bolster computing capacity to meet growing demand for chatbot Claude
May 29, 2026
Anthropic on Thursday said it is launching an upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model even as it works to release its powerful, market-moving Mythos model to all customers in the coming
May 28, 2026
Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots
May 29, 2026
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday the IPO-bound company had only agreed to lease its Colossus AI training data center clusters to Anthropic for six months, though he added it
May 28, 2026
New research suggests a first-of-its-kind drug for hepatitis B may let some patients stop treatment without showing signs of the dangerous liver virus
May 28, 2026
A Bronx Zoo elephant who gave researchers new insights and became the crux of a closely watched animal rights case has died
May 28, 2026
Japan Investment Corp (JIC), a state-backed fund, is considering selling JSR, two people familiar with the matter said, two years after it took
May 28, 2026
The World Health Organization on May 17 declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and said there was a
May 27, 2026
The leader of a Thai volunteer group helping to extract seven people trapped in a cave in Laos
May 28, 2026
Average global temperatures are forecast to reach near-record levels in the next five years, with Arctic temperatures expected to
May 28, 2026
Chinese technology giant ByteDance is developing its own central processing units (CPUs) to support its growing AI infrastructure needs,
May 28, 2026
A conflict between the U.S. and China over Taiwan would risk a nuclear escalation with both militaries likely to stage sweeping
May 28, 2026
A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures
May 28, 2026
The Australian government said on Thursday it had launched legal action against 3M over contamination from firefighting foam supplied by the U.S. company
May 28, 2026
The proportion of Americans without health insurance held steady at around 8% of the population in 2025, according to new findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
May 28, 2026
Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee on Thursday amped up his warning that mounting expectations for the productivity-boosting potential of AI could send inflation
May 28, 2026
Bayer used illegal and anti-competitive practices to monopolize the U.S. market for genetically engineered corn seeds, reaping "hundreds of millions, if not
May 28, 2026
The search for nine people missing after a chemical tank imploded and ruptured a day earlier in Washington state has moved from a rescue to a
May 28, 2026
There are millions of chemical tanks around the U.S., and experts say it is exceedingly rare for them to fail
May 28, 2026
Fair housing groups have filed a lawsuit over a rule change by the Trump administration that they allege reverses decades of lending protections and opens the door to discrimination against Black people, Latinos and other minorities
May 28, 2026
Scientists newly identify species of tiny, blue octopus that fits in the palm of your hand
May 28, 2026
President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet on Wednesday at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the Iran war, saying “things are going very well” days after insisting a settlement was “largely negotiated.”
May 27, 2026
SpaceX Starship launches are on hold pending an investigation into last week's test flight
May 28, 2026
Chip design software maker Synopsys has reached an agreement with activist investor Elliott Investment Management that will give one board seat to
May 28, 2026
How Arizona finds the home of human remains
May 28, 2026
The U.S.
May 27, 2026
The United States on Wednesday said it must prevent any cases of Ebola from entering the country from the Democratic Republic of
May 27, 2026
Students make local history as first student-built plane takes flight
May 28, 2026
Robots that look like dogs or people try to replicate symmetrical shapes found in nature
May 28, 2026
Iowa law funds pediatric cancer research through vape tax
May 28, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged U.S.
May 27, 2026
By Leo Marchandon and Coralie Lamarque (REUTERS), May 27 (Rtrs) - Capgemini on Thursday said artificial intelligence was opening access to client spending beyond traditional information technology
May 27, 2026
Community honors Nicole Amor, Minnesota soldier killed in Kuwait, with memorial stone
May 27, 2026
Global companies are using AI at their Indian hubs to bring more creative work in-house, cutting turnaround time and their reliance on
May 27, 2026
(Corrects paragraph 5 to state that North and South Kivu provinces are partially controlled by M23 rebels, not that North Kivu is held by M23 and South Kivu is controlled by the Alliance Fleuve Congo;
May 27, 2026
Shares of U.S. space companies continued to climb on Wednesday, extending their recent rally as investors bet that rocket company SpaceX's
May 27, 2026
The non-profit that controls OpenAI will commit an initial $250 million for grants, partnerships and direct work aimed at helping workers and economies navigate the disruption
May 27, 2026
A new study says the size and damage from hailstones will increase in a warming world
May 27, 2026
There has been a surge in mining companies seeking U.S. listings this year, but even more striking is the change in language as firms explicitly target
May 27, 2026
Nuclear energy company Newcleo has entered an agreement to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange through a merger with NewHold Investment Corp III, the firm
May 27, 2026
In an Ebola outbreak, hours matter.
May 27, 2026
The U.S. is discussing with Kenya opening a facility there to quarantine American citizens who become exposed to the Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two
May 27, 2026
Is sharing your data worth what you’re getting out of it? That may be the wrong question to ask when you are thinking about whether to share.
May 27, 2026
AI models can simulate the answers thousands of people would provide to a survey, but the results aren’t a reliable measure of what real people would actually say.
May 27, 2026
Western states are figuring out how to make electricity-sharing work, but it isn’t easy. Texas learned that the hard way.
May 27, 2026
Some over-the-counter and at-home remedies can help reduce eye irritation that causes rubbing. But if those don’t bring relief, it’s important to see an eye doctor.
May 27, 2026
The late postpartum period has the highest risk for maternal deaths, yet the standard of postpartum care in the US ends at approximately six weeks after birth.
May 27, 2026
Blood testing is now included in screening recommendations for colon and rectal cancer
May 27, 2026
Nvidia's chief executive said on Wednesday the chip company plans to invest around $150 billion a year in Taiwan, terming it the "epicentre" of the AI
May 27, 2026
This year’s World Cup is testing the public health playbook
May 27, 2026
In the lowest place on Earth, a sea is rapidly dying — and no one can agree how to save it
May 27, 2026
The number of cases of Hantavirus linked to a cruise ship at the centre of an outbreak has increased to 13, the head of the World Health Organization
May 27, 2026
There is one handwashing station and one infrared thermometer to fight the Ebola epidemic in this camp for 10,000 displaced people in Bunia, a city at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo
May 27, 2026
NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II mission
May 27, 2026
SpaceX's upgraded Starship launch on Friday delivered enough progress to keep the momentum intact behind Elon Musk's $1.75 trillion IPO, while
May 27, 2026
SK Hynix topped $1 trillion in market value for the first time on Wednesday, joining its memory chip rivals Samsung Electronics and
May 27, 2026
Samsung Electronics plans to invest 39 trillion dong ($1.5 billion) in Vietnam to build a semiconductor testing plant, its proposal
May 27, 2026
Officials have lifted evacuation orders for final 16,000 residents near a damaged chemical tank in California
May 26, 2026
Russia has handed Kazakhstan four Amur tigers, two of them cubs, to help the country restore its numbers of the animals, President Vladimir Putin said in an
May 27, 2026
Evacuation orders lifted in California chemical tank emergency after worst-case explosion risk eliminated
May 24, 2026
North Korea says its latest launches involved multiple weapons systems, including a nuclear-capable cruise missile that leader Kim Jong Un plans to deploy with front-line units facing South Korea
May 27, 2026
North Korea has tested a mix of tactical ballistic missiles, artillery rockets and AI-guided precision cruise missiles designed for modern warfare under leader
May 27, 2026
The Trump administration is working on a deal to give weapons-grade plutonium to energy companies
May 27, 2026
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday condemned the attack on Barakah Nuclear Plant in the United Arab Emirates, according to a statement, adding that the
May 27, 2026
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has captured the internet's attention by wrangling two snakes bare-handed
May 27, 2026
President Donald Trump has wrapped up a three-hour visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what the White House describes as preventive medical and dental exams
May 26, 2026
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record closing highs on Tuesday, as AI-fueled optimism offset anxiety over Middle East peace
May 27, 2026
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May 27, 2026
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May 27, 2026
To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.
May 27, 2026
An astronaut suddenly couldn’t speak in space. What does that mean for future missions?
May 27, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin will oversee the signing of a deal outlining parameters for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan
May 26, 2026
Micron Technology briefly topped $1 trillion in market value for the first time on Tuesday, crowning a dizzying rally that has cemented the U.S
May 26, 2026
As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached a
May 26, 2026
The U.S. said on Tuesday it had chosen five companies, including Oklo, to enter advanced talks over potentially using its Cold War-era plutonium as a
May 26, 2026
Syria's transitional leadership has located remnants of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's clandestine chemical weapons program, including raw
May 26, 2026
Advisers to the U.S.
May 26, 2026
Whiskey shop using AI tool to help customers find their perfect bottle
May 26, 2026
Indian officials investigating last year's deadly Air India crash are preparing an interim report rather than a final
May 26, 2026
‘Mind-bogglingly crazy’: Europe’s deadly, early heatwave is smashing records
May 26, 2026
Salmon have faced a boom-bust cycle for years. Making their recovery last longer will require some big changes, including how hatcheries produce fish.
May 26, 2026
Even though annual precipitation is rising nationally, the landscape is drying out more rapidly. That’s changing the water cycle.
May 26, 2026
Teens need to press pause on late-night doomscrolling
May 26, 2026
When people harness the logic of natural selection, they can often find efficient and effective ways to solve complex problems.
May 26, 2026
Human therapists have a legal duty to warn authorities and potential targets when patients say they plan to harm someone. The same can – in theory – be required of AI chatbots .
May 26, 2026
Federal officials are considering cool water releases for the third consecutive year at Glen Canyon Dam in Northern Arizona this summer to safeguard the humpback chub, a federally protected fish
May 26, 2026
When honey bees get sick, their beekeepers turn to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis lab for help. That crucial resource is now disappearing.
May 26, 2026
China's booming pharmaceutical industry is not being impacted by Beijing's tightening scrutiny over deals involving sensitive technologies, the CEO of JW
May 26, 2026
AI is now the machine deciding whether your payment goes through. And when it makes a mistake, the system isn’t designed to tell you why.
May 26, 2026
Medications used to perform abortions are also widely used to treat severe pregnancy complications, as well as several conditions unrelated to childbirth.
May 26, 2026
Russia can falsify GPS signals deep into Europe at a radius of up to 450km (280 miles) from its Kaliningrad exclave due to hugely-expanded capacity, a
May 26, 2026
Manganese producer Element 25 said on Tuesday it is reviewing its project execution plan for the production of high-purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM) in Louisiana, U.S.,
May 26, 2026
The U.S.
May 26, 2026
Trump’s advanced age and threats to his life serve as reminders of his own mortality
May 26, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global "jobs apocalypse" and the technology had not
May 26, 2026
South Korea will seek to launch its first nuclear-powered submarine by the mid-2030s, under a new programme aimed at countering North Korea's submarine-launched nuclear and
May 26, 2026
Hotel Momentum stands above Switzerland's Loetschen Valley as a symbol of recovery, a year after a
May 26, 2026
DRC is no stranger to Ebola outbreaks. Why isn’t there a vaccine or treatment to help now?
May 26, 2026
Health workers responding to a rapidly spreading outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo face two threats
May 25, 2026
Atlanta metro downpour leads to massive fish kill on the Chattahoochee River
May 26, 2026
Spanish citizen evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship tests positive
May 26, 2026
Firefighters contending with a dangerously overheating industrial tank of a hazardous chemical in Southern California have eliminated the possibility of the tank exploding after a
May 25, 2026
Archaeologists uncover graves and artifacts at former asylum
May 26, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit
May 25, 2026
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has started preventive radiation treatment after being diagnosed with early-stage skin
May 25, 2026
Catholic popes have been urging global leaders to address social justice issues for 135 years across some two dozen major documents that many of the
May 25, 2026
Why did T. rex have tiny arms? A new study may finally have the answer
May 25, 2026
Freshman recognized for creating disaster communication packs after Helene
May 25, 2026
Pope Leo warns of AI fueling warfare in first major theological document
May 25, 2026
Inside the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in DRC as the virus spreads
May 24, 2026
The co-founder of AI company Anthropic said on Monday that the development of artificial intelligence cannot be left solely to
May 25, 2026
The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that the fast-moving Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda was outpacing response efforts, giving the
May 25, 2026
Cave diving is fraught with danger, but the reward is sights like nothing else on Earth
May 25, 2026
Pope Leo urged governments to slow down and closely regulate the development of AI systems in his first major document, released on Monday, warning
May 25, 2026
Want to be happier and healthier? Switch up your day with movement breaks
May 25, 2026
Flight diverted because of power bank charging device in hold luggage
May 25, 2026
Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now, scientists say
May 25, 2026
Myanmar's military has launched renewed offensives into several border regions, including a frontier area with critical rare earth deposits and other vital trade routes, a month
May 25, 2026
When He Tingbo was put in charge of Huawei's chip development in 2003, the young engineer was handed an annual budget of $400
May 25, 2026
A local hospital official says that angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients at the heart of an outbreak in eastern Congo, demanding the bodies of their relatives
May 25, 2026
Huawei Technologies said on Monday it will make industry-leading semiconductors using a new technology in five years,
May 25, 2026
China has launched the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft with three astronauts heading to its space station
May 24, 2026
Authorities are bracing for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank at a facility in Southern California could leak or explode
May 24, 2026
Experts trying to prevent a tank holding a highly toxic and flammable chemical from exploding in Southern California found a "potential crack" in the container that might
May 25, 2026
Man recalls being inside Waymo as it sped through construction zone, chased by police
May 25, 2026
What most people misunderstand about sepsis
May 25, 2026
AI is learning to fly airplanes — and aviation is starting to embrace it
May 25, 2026
Professor, team get $1.8M grant to turn surplus sweet potatoes into plant-based milk
May 25, 2026
Russia pounded Kyiv and surrounding areas with hundreds of drones and missiles on Sunday in one of the heaviest bombardments of the city since
May 24, 2026
I tried to turn my phone off for a week. Why it didn’t work
May 24, 2026
Firefighters trying to keep a tank of hazardous chemicals in California from exploding or leaking brought in outside experts to help prevent a catastrophe, the incident commander
May 24, 2026
Officials race to cool down tank containing toxic chemical as 50,000 residents remain under evacuation order in California
May 23, 2026
Global oil demand is dropping, but US drivers keep buying more gas
Nigeria rescues schoolchildren, teachers abducted in Oyo, presidency says
Fashion retailer Tailored Brands reveals revenue rise in US IPO filing
Graham Platner withdraws from Maine Senate race, kicking off Democrats’ quest for nominee
Ukraine creates 'long-range' command to step up strikes on Russia
New York Times countersues US employment agency over its diversity and hiring lawsuit
FAA extends flight cuts at Chicago O'Hare for another year
Man partly sucked out of broken window on flight from Greece was pulled back by fellow passengers