Humans accidentally canceled the next ice age — but it’s no reason to celebrate, scientists say
October 29, 2026Airbnb is dedicating more than $500 million to its philanthropic arm over the next five years
October 29, 2026Hong Kong leader John Lee apologized Thursday and said his housing secretary resigned after an investigation into the city’s deadliest fire in decades found inadequate regulatory oversight
October 29, 2026A food systems researcher shows how trucking deregulation and lax antitrust enforcement let big grocery chains grow as rural distribution thinned.
October 29, 2026This amoeba lives at hotter temperatures than any other eukaryote previously discovered.
October 29, 2026An independent Hong Kong committee blamed a renovation contractor and consultant as well as four government departments for a deadly blaze that killed 168 people in the
October 29, 2026US President Donald Trump has touted billions of dollars in new factories, energy projects and jobs while campaigning for Republicans
October 29, 2026Voters in 10 US states will decide on Election Day whether to curb data center development in their communities, as the rapid buildout needed to power
October 29, 2026For years, the neighborhood watch group in the working-class area of Solanda in Ecuadorean capital Quito had patrolled their nighttime streets armed
October 29, 2026Get ready to fall back
October 29, 2026China is exporting a record amount of clean energy technology and that is making a dent in global emissions
October 29, 2026A Liberian-flagged vessel that was hit by drones off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast has sunk, the local maritime administration said on Thursday
October 29, 2026Carpets still hang on the walls of Mohammad Dawood’s home in a northern Afghanistan village,
October 29, 2026China has more than 50 navy and other official vessels operating in a wide swath of sea stretching from southern Japan down to Taiwan and off
October 29, 2026A federal judge has rejected a Trump administration request to stop California from processing the ballots of up to 20,000 people
October 28, 2026A cyclone that powered up over unusually warm ocean waters hit part of India’s coastline that’s dense with billions of dollars in plans for data centers
October 28, 2026A US judge strongly rebuked the Trump administration on Wednesday by rejecting a request by the Justice Department to temporarily
October 28, 2026Cyclone Arnab has battered India’s eastern Andhra Pradesh state, killing three people and damaging homes and farmland
October 28, 2026King tides have inundated parts of both U.S. coasts
October 28, 2026A man who played a major role in defrauding a federal food program in Minnesota has been sentenced to 30 years in prison
October 28, 2026Young boy rescued after falling into septic pipe
October 28, 2026(Corrects production figure in paragraph 3 to clarify that output in Argentina is expected to reach 160,000 metric tons by 2028, not 200,000 metric tons) By Lucila Sigal SAN FERNANDO DEL VALLE DE
October 28, 2026US officials who had resigned from former President Joe Biden's administration over his Gaza policy said on Wednesday that Democratic presidential
October 28, 2026The weekend escape of a Tennessee inmate who was convicted of murdering a co-worker was just the latest black eye for the state’s troubled prison system, coming only weeks after the failed execution of Christa Pike
October 28, 2026Authorities say that the suspects in an alleged plot to carry out a shooting at a Georgia high school had a floor plan of the school and had chosen a date
October 28, 2026During the peak of the 2025 Los Angeles fires, approximately 7 million residents were exposed to airborne lead concentrations over 24 hours that exceeded 80 times the normal background level, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances
October 28, 2026Officials say that a six-day ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine has held for its first day and night
October 28, 2026Oil prices edged up about 1% on Wednesday on renewed concerns about additional energy supply disruptions in the Middle East due to continued fighting in
October 28, 2026The remote Guaitecas Archipelago has more than 40 small islands and is a gateway to Chile’s Patagonia region
October 28, 2026Brazil's soybean industry fears the European Union's new
October 28, 2026Iranian families are cutting back on food, housing and education as the eight-month-old war with the United States fuels one of the country's worst inflation
October 28, 2026Global commodity prices are set to surge 23% in 2026, the World Bank said on Wednesday, citing rising energy prices and disruptions to cargo shipping
October 28, 2026Hundreds of Indonesian students and civil society groups protested on Wednesday in the capital Jakarta and other cities against President Prabowo
October 28, 2026Hundreds of World War I munitions exposed by melting ice removed from Dolomites
October 28, 2026Improving both supply and quality of childcare has been the focus of several states trying to find solutions on their own.
October 28, 2026A US regulator proposed new rules on Wednesday to hasten liquefied natural gas projects and expand export capacity as part of the Trump administration's larger push to
October 28, 2026Two teenage plaintiffs who say social media caused them to develop serious mental health problems will take Meta Platforms and Snap to trial in Los Angeles on
October 28, 2026At least three people were killed, dozens of houses damaged and crops destroyed as a powerful cyclone struck India's
October 27, 2026From a single-model company rising from the ashes of World War Two, to a sprawling automotive empire with global reach, Volkswagen has undergone repeated
October 28, 2026HONG KONG, Oct 28 - China is now supporting more people aged 65 and above than children, underscoring the impact of its rapidly ageing population and a declining birth rate.
October 28, 2026The US Department of Energy said on Wednesday it has closed a $5.1 billion loan package to Alliant Energy to expand power generation and bolster the
October 28, 2026A federal judge says he is considering appointing a special master to evaluate claims by the Trump administration that California has some 20,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls
October 27, 2026A federal judge has scolded the Justice Department for its unorthodox handling of a criminal case against two former FBI officials accused of making false statements to Congress about their participation in and knowledge of investigations involving Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden
October 27, 2026President Donald Trump says he's “terminating” a Biden-era rule that aimed to reduce planet-warming emissions of methane from oil and gas drilling
October 27, 2026Twenty-one US states and the District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday over its rollback of reporting requirements
October 27, 2026King Charles III has arrived in the Bahamas as part of a nine-day trip to the Caribbean, where he faces calls for an apology and slavery reparations
October 27, 2026The Environmental Protection Agency’s response to the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment will be investigated after dozens of residents of the small town on the Ohio-Pennsylvania and Vice President JD Vance requested the review
October 27, 2026Donald Trump’s social media posts on the closure and renovation of a historic golf course in the nation’s capital are putting Justice Department lawyers in the uncomfortable position of explaining whether the president of the United States should be believed
October 27, 2026Florida mom arrested at airport for leaving 4 kids home alone during work trip to Vegas
October 27, 2026A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump's administration from implementing a new rule that would cut the amount of time
October 27, 2026Newsom signs order protecting Pacific Coast Highway from El Niño’s powerful storms
October 27, 2026Humanity is losing more ground in its fight against climate change
October 21, 2026The New York Stock Exchange is preparing to start trading a new type of options contract that lets investors make all-or-nothing bets on whether a stock
October 27, 2026Colorado pilot fights for approval to fly electric plane to commute to work
October 27, 2026Manhunt underway for convicted killer who escaped through Tennessee prison fence and fled in stolen truck, officials say
October 27, 2026Indian authorities have evacuated tens of thousands of people from vulnerable coastal areas in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh as a severe cyclone over the Bay of Bengal is expected to make landfall along the country’s east coast
October 27, 2026South Africa claims it has sent the longest freight train in the world on a test run
October 27, 2026The U.S. military says it has attacked a boat it accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean
October 27, 2026The Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a dispute over a Biden-era immigration regulation
October 27, 2026California's golden mussel invasion sparks increased concerns from Stockton-area leaders
October 27, 2026The Ethiopian Orthodox Church reports that two attacks in Oromia have killed at least 60 Orthodox Christians
October 27, 2026The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Tuesday it welcomed the return of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to Venezuela, saying it hoped her presence would
October 27, 2026The most prominent glaciers in Colorado thinned dramatically over the past year due to record low mountain snow and record warm temperatures
October 27, 2026Disease-carrying mosquitoes are moving deeper into the US. Climate change is only part of the problem.
October 27, 2026A clutch of ultra-wealthy executives who made fortunes in and around the cryptocurrency business have become influential players in US politics, collectively spending more than $56
October 27, 2026India has deployed hundreds of additional security personnel in its remote northeast, authorities said on Tuesday, after youth protesters clashed
October 27, 2026Gunmen killed at least 62 people in an attack on a community in northeastern Nigeria
October 27, 2026The European Union expects a wave of investment into the Australian critical minerals sector as it pushes to diversify its supply chain away from China,
October 27, 2026Judge slams Justice Department for asking her to ‘disbelieve’ Trump in golf course case
October 27, 2026A bus fitted out with oxygen tanks is providing a sanctuary in a city on Indonesia's Borneo island where people are
October 27, 2026A US judge extended on Monday a court order blocking President Donald Trump's plans to renovate a historic Washington golf course where she had deemed
October 27, 2026A US appeals
October 26, 2026A federal judge has agreed to extend an order blocking the Trump administration’s renovation plans for a century-old public golf course in the nation’s capital
October 26, 2026The Trump administration is asking Washington state to set aside any ballots received from more than 400 people it suspects registered to vote without U.S. citizenship
October 26, 2026The Four Corners region of the Southwestern U.S. is warily eyeing a forecast for still more rain
October 26, 2026Family loses 'everything' to catastrophic flooding
October 26, 2026Stockyards in New Mexico that had closed due to the New World screwworm outbreak are bustling again
October 26, 2026Black bear sightings causing a stir in Massachusetts town
October 26, 2026The Israeli military is pressing ahead with a massive operation in the occupied West Bank that has displaced hundreds of Palestinians
October 25, 2026San Francisco mayor declares local emergency to prepare for El Niño storm effects
October 26, 2026The Saamaka people in Suriname are using modern technology to map their ancestral lands
October 26, 2026Audi chief Gernot Doellner drew heavy criticism on Monday for appearing alongside US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in the
October 26, 2026A U.N.-commissioned group of independent experts accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza despite a ceasefire agreement
October 26, 2026The Saamaka people in Suriname are using modern technology to map their ancestral lands
October 26, 2026A German climber died after a fall while descending from the summit of a Himalayan peak in northeast Nepal, a hiking company official said on Monday.
October 26, 2026Five decades ago, he charted two paths for energy use in the US. His soft path rightly emphasized efficiency and renewables but underestimated the importance of electricity.
October 26, 2026An oil spill from a damaged tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates has widened, satellite images showed, triggering more beach
October 26, 2026Rutland-Dundee Fire Protection District firefighter dies after suffering medical emergency
October 26, 2026Judges skeptical of Trump administration effort to force California to set aside mail ballots
October 25, 2026Ammonia threat contained at burning Oregon seafood plant, officials say
October 25, 2026A rain-soaked swath of the Southwest U.S. has endured additional flooding after days of rain forced evacuations and water rescues
October 25, 2026Tropical Storm Vance is churning off Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast after a day of gradual weakening but is threatening several western states in that country with heavy rain and possible flash flooding
October 25, 2026A federal appeals court appeared skeptical on Sunday of a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's administration that seeks to force California officials to set aside
October 25, 2026An apparent explosion has caused a fire at a Quaker Oats plant in Iowa that the company touts as the largest milling facility in the world
October 24, 2026Hundreds of people have lost power and been told to stay out of their homes amid flooding in the Four Corners area of the U.S. Southwest
October 24, 2026Iowa’s cancer problem is scrambling the midterms
October 24, 2026New maps reveal who could see more snow during this year’s super El Niño
October 24, 2026Ras Al Khaimah authorities said on Saturday that all beaches in the emirate would be closed until further notice, a day after an offshore oil leak prompted beach closures in
October 24, 2026Eighty-year-old Rick Russman of New Hampshire spent five decades as a Republican.
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