Google says it has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for users in the United States
August 31, 2026Plans in one of Texas’ largest counties to use dozens fewer polling location than previous years is drawing protests from Democrats who say the reductions could create confusion in the November midterm elections
August 31, 2026Ukraine's former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov is seeking U.S. investment for a defence technology fund, he said in an interview with the Financial Times that was published on
August 31, 2026‘It feels like early Covid’: The messy scramble to regulate AI
August 30, 2026NASA began a new mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology with the launch on Sunday of
August 30, 2026State constitutions play a growing role in American politics. But turning to such documents to recognize rights and liberties is not a new project – nor is it an entirely liberal one.
August 11, 2026NASA launches ‘discovery machine’ to unravel the invisible universe
August 30, 2026Brazil’s black market for weight-loss drugs is booming. Smugglers are cashing in
August 30, 2026NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off on a quest to find planets around other stars and explore the hidden universe
August 30, 2026Young Massachusetts voters agree that 80-year-old U.S. Sen. Ed Markey stumbled when asked during a debate how he uses artificial intelligence
August 30, 2026Six months after the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran, the direst economic predictions haven't come true
August 30, 2026Volunteers rescued a climber who was stranded on a ledge in the Sierra Nevada in an operation that spanned more than 15 hours
August 30, 2026Food trucks at a Sacramento event ditch gas generators for quiet battery banks
August 30, 2026The viral leftist teens of Campaign 2020 work for OpenAI now
August 29, 2026An encounter with NASA’s game-changing ‘starglasses’
August 29, 2026The Himalayas are unpredictable. But countries are building there like never before
August 29, 2026Trump is staking out extreme positions on White House secrecy, legal experts say
August 29, 2026Climate change has become a less prominent election-year issue for Democrats as voters say concerns such as affordability are more pressing
August 29, 2026Two cities have found a relatively novel way to reduce high-speed crashes by rewarding law-abiding drivers rather than just punishing the lead-footed ones
August 29, 2026OpenAI said on Friday that it plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, marking a
August 29, 2026President Donald Trump on Friday announced an unprecedented U.S. push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela's vast oil reserves, betting that American companies
August 29, 2026(This Aug 28 story has been republished, with no changes to text.)
August 29, 2026Mom who lost daughter to social media addiction says Meta settlement is a turning point
August 27, 2026Pinterest said on Friday Chief Financial Officer Julia Donnelly will leave on October 30, and the company has launched an external search for
August 29, 2026Rising long-term bond yields may reflect investor expectations of an AI-driven productivity boom, rather than just concerns over inflation and swelling government
August 29, 2026American diplomats and at least some of their family members are beginning to return to U.S. embassies in the Middle East
August 29, 2026U.S. officials are correcting earlier statements that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese hackers, now saying that the
August 29, 2026A fresh look at the U.S. labor market in the coming week along with quarterly results from semiconductor company Broadcom will test a market rally that
August 28, 2026The bond market swung as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control
August 28, 2026E-cigarette maker Juul Labs has received U.S. permission to sell an updated version of its vaping device
August 29, 2026Canada poaches dozens of US academics as Trump administration tightens university funding
August 29, 2026Wall Street's main indexes ended lower on Friday, with investors turning cautious after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh
August 28, 2026U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order on Friday creating a U.S.
August 28, 2026The Trump administration on Friday appealed a court order requiring it to make payments for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel project after losing its
August 28, 2026A ransomware group said on Friday it was putting up for auction a trove of data it stole from Berlin state agencies, and city officials
August 28, 2026Smartphones and social media have transformed journalism by producing a torrent of photos and videos of almost anything that happens where people are present, from holidays to
August 28, 2026A federal judge on Friday declined to immediately block U.S.
August 28, 2026(Corrects last paragraph to say it is the Navy's longest deployment, not the longest deployment for the USS Gerald R.
August 27, 2026The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year have received the nation's highest space honor
August 29, 2026Fallout from controversial golf ad deepens as Good Good loses deals with Callaway and PGA Tour
August 28, 2026SpaceX has pulled off its biggest salvage operation yet, recovering its most recently launched Starship from the Indian Ocean
August 28, 2026Community members push back on Flock camera system
August 28, 2026The European Central Bank should embrace blockchain technology to safeguard its role at the heart of the financial system, ECB board member Isabel Schnabel
August 28, 2026(This Aug 27 story has been republished, with no changes to text.)
August 28, 2026(This Aug 27 story has been republished, with no changes to text.)
August 27, 2026PayPal shares fell 12% in morning trading on Friday, after reports that a consortium of buyout firm Advent International and
August 28, 2026MSCI's global equities gauge fell in a choppy session on Friday, while short-dated U.S.
August 28, 2026The Cambodian government has claimed a milestone in its fight against the scam industry accused of stealing billions of dollars from victims around the world, with officials saying
August 28, 2026A respected drug and mental health institute in the Netherlands is warning about potentially lethal ecstasy pills shaped like U.S. President Donald Trump's head
August 28, 2026President Donald Trump marks an awkward moment in his second White House term as the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran reaches the six-month mark
August 28, 2026Debate over Data Centers: Neighbors oppose proposed legislation
August 28, 2026Rescuers are relying on helicopters to reach survivors stranded by flash floods along the Nepal-China border, where most major roads and bridges have been destroyed. The number of people listed as missing in both Nepal and China has risen dramatically to over 1,300 people.
August 27, 2026Congo government figures show that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo
August 28, 2026Volkswagen's supervisory board is meeting in a week's time to discuss its biggest ever turnaround plan that has pitted management against unions and the state of
August 28, 2026Sweden's military will participate in the surveillance and protection of Finland's territory with Gripen fighter jets and corvette warship, at least until the end of 2026
August 28, 2026U.S. equity funds recorded their largest weekly outflow in five months in the week to August 26, as investors reassessed the outlook for artificial intelligence ahead of Nvidia's
August 28, 2026Nepal is monitoring two lakes upstream of the flood zone where hundreds died on Wednesday, an official with Nepal's Disaster Management Authority said.
August 28, 2026Chip designer Marvell Technology's shares fell more than 8% to $221.6 in early trading on Friday as investors looked beyond the company's solid results in search of
August 28, 2026(This August 27 story has been republished to add an image, with no changes to text.)
August 28, 2026FDA approves updated Covid-19 vaccines
August 28, 2026Uncertainty is part of the scientific process, and it’s not a bad thing – it’s where future discoveries can happen.
August 28, 2026Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
August 28, 2026The countries bordering the Baltic Sea plan to establish a joint task force for drone defence that will allow them to react quickly in the face of the growing
August 28, 2026Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global expects to invest more than $200 million in Argentina this year to launch new services in smaller cities
August 28, 2026The families of South Korean workers missing after a catastrophic flash flood in Nepal urged authorities on Friday to secure helicopter access
August 28, 2026Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, was at a Lebanese restaurant celebrating a friend’s birthday late on August 13 when he got the call.
August 28, 2026Why living downstream from a glacier has become a deadly liability
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August 28, 2026(This Aug 27 story has been republished, with no changes to text.)
August 27, 2026A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon
August 28, 2026Young adults under 21 traded $5 billion on Kalshi this year, amid prediction market frenzy
August 28, 2026Bicycle shop in Marblehead, Massachusetts won't sell e-bikes to kids: "They're too fast"
August 28, 2026When Shein makes its market debut on Tuesday, it will be in Hong Kong and not New York or London like it once dreamed — symbolic of the long journey the fast-fashion online retailer
August 28, 2026Electric vehicle maker Lucid is recalling 27,185 of its flagship Air luxury sedans in the U.S., because an exterior lighting circuit could overheat and increase the risk of a fire,
August 28, 2026From the Editor U.S. President Donald Trump originally said the Iran war would last four to five weeks, but we’re now hitting the six-month mark.
August 28, 2026Mark Murrell, founder of Get Maine Lobster of Portland, Maine, has an irritating business problem that he has been struggling to solve: offering discounts is costly
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