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A homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in southwest Atlanta.

A judge dismissed all charges Tuesday against a Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot a driver last month....

Marine Capitol rioter gets 1 hour of community service for each of 279 Marine Civil War casualties

Study finds ‘direct evidence’ of polar amplification on continent as scientists warn of implications of ice loss...

A pair of new experiments helped people with paralysis communicate audibly in close to real time.

High school students’ scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according to the nonprofit organization that administers the test....

A Missouri high school teacher says she has been placed on leave after officials discovered that she was performing on a pornography website to supplement her salary....

For years Donald Trump was the host of The Apprentice, a reality TV show in which contestants vied for a management job within his organisation and he would deliver the verdict: “You’re fired!”...

In an executive order expected to be released Wednesday, American companies will be subject to unprecedented new federal oversight that will scrutinize – and potentially prevent – some of their investments in China’s tech industry. The goal is to ensure that U.S. cash does not support China’s military modernization and...

The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike will end at 12:01 a.m. PT on Wednesday.

Google and JPMorgan have each told staff that office attendance will be factored into performance evaluations. The US law firm Davis Polk informed employees that fewer days in the office would result in lower bonuses. And Meta and Amazon both told employees they’re now monitoring badge swipes, with potential consequences for...

About 146,000 U.S. auto workers are set to go on strike this week if General Motors, Ford and Stellantis fail to meet their demands for big pay raises and the restoration of concessions the workers made years ago when the companies were in financial trouble....

Rates of severe disease may be staying at relatively low levels, but experts agree that there are probably more infections than the current surveillance systems can capture....

In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of “bird-friendly” building measures....

Gov. Katie Hobbs’ administration on Monday announced two steps to stop a controversial Saudi Arabian company from using groundwater beneath state land in western Arizona to grow and export alfalfa....

Republicans avoid shutdown by cutting deal with Democrats over their own party’s hardliners

The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum is moving up festivities for the former president’s 99th birthday because of the threat of a partial federal government shutdown....

Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we’re all just too exhausted to fight this stuff