The National Park Service is warning that it will close most US national parks if Congress fails to come to an agreement to avoid a government shutdown this weekend, and a popular social media campaign celebrating fat bears will be canceled....
A member of the “Black Menaces,” a group of Black Brigham Young University students who regularly share on social media video interviews with white classmates, said that a university staff member confronted him while he was conducting an interview last week and that a classmate harassed him immediately afterward....
China rejects State Dep’t report claiming Beijing spends billions to spread disinformation globally The State Department report alleged that China suppresses information that goes against its position on contentious issues such as its human rights record, especially in Xinjiang....
A northern Virginia mother who sedated her two daughters with melatonin-laced gummy bears before fatally shooting them was sentenced Friday to 78 years in prison....
Doctors in England have been told not to prescribe ADHD drugs to new patients because of a national shortage, as charities warn that the supply problems are devastating for people living with the condition....
The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service readied hundreds of thousands of mortar shells and artillery rounds filled with mustard gas in the 1940s. During the Cold War, even more lethal chemical weapons followed: artillery and rockets filled with VX and GB, better known as Sarin, nerve agents that, with as little as a few...
Jimmy Carter has always been a man of discipline and habit. But the former president will break routine Sunday, putting off his practice of quietly watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Plains....
Travel website Booking.com has left many hotel operators and other partners across the globe thousands of dollars out of pocket for months on end, blaming the lack of payment on a “technical issue”....
In the hills of a dry, remote patch of California farm country, Lee Harrington carefully monitors the drips moistening his pistachio trees to ensure they’re not wasting any of the groundwater at the heart of a vicious fight....
A semitruck carrying 7,500 gallons of anhydrous ammonia overturned in Illinois in a multi-vehicle crash that caused five fatalities and sent another five people to local hospitals, officials said on Saturday....
Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.
Robert Fico wins Slovakia election with anti-Ukraine stance Former prime minister set to try to form coalition that could undermine EU support for Kyiv...
What is the mass of the Milky Way galaxy? It is difficult to measure the mass of a galaxy, and previous estimates appear to have been inaccurate. There is a new study that has used data from the Gaia spacecraft to calculate a more accurate mass for the Milky Way. The study found that the Milky Way is much less massive than...
Congress passed a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown just hours ahead of a critical midnight deadline when funding for federal agencies was set to run out....