At least eight people were injured when an Avianca flight encountered severe turbulence and had to make an emergency landing in Miami
October 09, 2026Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. Media witnesses observing from a separate room shared what they saw during the failed attempt.
October 08, 2026The US CDC on Friday reported 4,080 confirmed measles cases in the country as of October 8, up 193 from a week earlier.
October 09, 2026EV-maker Tesla has started calling its "Full Self-Driving" feature "Tesla Assisted Driving" on its European websites, dropping a name regulators have said was misleading, as CEO Elon
October 09, 2026The United States has pledged tens of millions of dollars to UN organisations in Geneva, sources said - a move diplomats said showed
October 09, 2026Vehicles were overturned and two people seriously injured on Friday when a tornado swept through the Sicilian city of Marsala and neighbouring towns,
October 09, 2026A friend of the suspected thief of a massive cache of personal data from the FBI says he begged the teenager not to do it.
October 09, 2026The FBI has arrested an accused co-conspirator of the hacking group ShinyHunters
October 09, 2026Hurricane Simon has strengthened to a Category 2 storm, approaching Mexico's coast as a major hurricane this weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center
October 09, 2026The shadowing of a Western satellite supporting Ukraine by a cluster of Russian military satellites earlier this year demonstrates
October 09, 2026China's leading AI developers have publicly disclosed model-specific safety-test results for only a small fraction of their releases, a report by
October 09, 2026SpaceX has agreed to acquire a nationwide portfolio of licenses in the low-band spectrum in a deal reportedly valued at $8 billion, as it looks to expand
October 09, 2026In a bone-dry valley in Hungary, forest workers and volunteers piled up terraces of logs and deadwood, hoping to catch any
October 09, 2026The Trump administration is pushing forward with a $46 billion border wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico
October 09, 2026A supersized El Niño’s decapitating winds and the Gulf of Mexico’s hot storm-fueling waters are battling for the core and future of land-approaching Hurricane Isaias and the storm’s tilt and eye show who’s winning
October 09, 2026Rocks deep underground can be used to hold heat until it’s needed.
October 09, 2026Engineers are using a unique test facility called the Wall of Wind to develop housing that’s both affordable and disaster-resistant. Their tests show the magnitude of the challenge.
October 09, 2026Bets on midterm endorsements, rallies, debates and dropouts raise insider trading concerns
October 09, 2026South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, who was awarded the Nobel peace prize on Friday, has been a judge on several international courts,
October 09, 2026OpenAI has fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the decision after the trio accused the company of prioritizing corporate interests over safety
October 09, 2026The US bull market is going strong as it nears its four-year anniversary, driven by an AI spending engine that is propelling corporate profits and
October 09, 2026President Donald Trump's looming changes to a rural energy program that has distributed billions of dollars in recent years will make it
October 09, 2026The US Department of Agriculture on Friday is expected to lower its estimate of how much of last year's corn harvest was fed to livestock after it reported a
October 09, 2026One of the world’s wealthiest cities is enduring the world’s most polluted air. Here’s why
October 09, 2026The decision was expected to take minutes.
October 09, 2026OpenAI fired three of its researchers last week after an investigation found they violated policies on handling sensitive information, the AI major said in a post on X on Friday.
October 09, 2026Australia's Firmus, a data centre operator backed by Nvidia, shelved its $5 billion IPO on Friday, adding to growing investor scrutiny of
October 09, 2026Sand-filled blast barriers and concrete shelters are multiplying at filling stations in Ukraine in a push by retailers to fortify their networks as Russia
October 09, 2026Once near extinction, these giant tortoises now outnumber people in the Seychelles, survey finds
October 09, 2026The view from Indian engineer Tushar Shetty's Mumbai apartment captures a tension playing out around the world as the
October 09, 2026SpaceX struck a deal on Thursday to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum portfolio, moving Elon Musk's satellite venture closer to mounting a
October 09, 2026The Chinese developer of ARTEX said they have converted the AI agent to a closed-source project after cybersecurity firms identified it as a tool used in a
October 09, 2026Explosions have been heard in Saudi Arabia's capital and at the Riyadh airport where flights were halted
October 08, 2026The brain’s acute response to the trauma of sexual assault can block a person’s ability to accurately assess what they experienced.
October 09, 2026Conservation groups sued the US government this week over plans to blast the cliff walls of an eastern Utah canyon and build an oil truck highway through an area
October 09, 2026Flock Safety plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of AI-powered
October 09, 2026Chatbots created by AI companion company Character.AI sometimes advised users to cut, starve or kill themselves, according to a new filing by Kentucky’s attorney
October 09, 2026Fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were pushed out over ‘suspicious’ circumstances
October 09, 2026US Health Secretary Robert F.
October 09, 2026RTX's Raytheon said on Thursday it won a multi-year US military contract worth up to $6.3 billion to produce and sustain Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptors, as the Pentagon
October 09, 2026Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature
October 08, 2026Federal budget deficit climbs to $2 trillion as fiscal jitters multiply
October 09, 2026Hurricane Isaias strengthens to Category 2 with evacuations underway in the Gulf states
October 09, 2026A U.S. Army report found systemic breakdowns that led to last year’s midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C. The military has also recommended numerous steps it should take to prevent future tragedies
October 08, 2026Loggerhead sea turtles have laid a record 4,292 nests on Georgia beaches this year, a significant rebound from 358 nests in 2004
October 09, 2026Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died
October 09, 2026Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order
October 09, 2026President Donald Trump celebrated tech billionaires such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at an event with arguably awkward timing
October 08, 2026RFK Jr. tasks researchers with studying vaccine injuries
October 09, 2026Nvidia-backed Iambic Therapeutics, which uses AI to develop drugs, is aiming to raise up to $159.4 million in its US IPO, as the biotech sector
October 08, 2026The four leaders of US President Donald Trump's AI task force are slated to meet on Thursday, task force vice chair Scott Kupor told Reuters, adding
October 09, 2026President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine expected Kyiv's European partners to join talks with the US in coming days.
October 09, 2026The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry gave a hand to handed molecules – and the processes chemists use to create them.
October 09, 2026Veterans in Des Moines receive AI glasses to improve daily life
October 09, 2026Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Thursday it could not yet determine whether equipment at a data centre hit by a Ukrainian drone attack could be restored.
October 08, 2026Unusual sighting! Young black bear spotted at Morro Rock
October 09, 2026Four astronauts are back on Earth after an eight-month stay at the International Space Station
October 08, 2026A witness says explosions have rocked Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, including a blast at the international airport
October 08, 2026US prosecutors on Thursday charged ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores with conspiring to torture political opponents and
October 08, 2026Global shares slid on Thursday as a mild pullback in sovereign bond yields was countered by a jump in oil
October 08, 2026A US Army investigative report into the collision of an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
October 08, 2026The Trump administration plans to complete a review of the abortion drug mifepristone by March 2027, according to a court filing, paving the way for potential
October 08, 2026Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo on Thursday said it has closed a $5 billion term loan, marking the company's first debt financing as it looks to expand its autonomous ride-hailing
October 08, 2026Alphabet's Google Cloud on Thursday introduced the Gemini agent, a single AI agent for work that can answer questions, handle tasks, create content and write code.
October 08, 2026Indiana 911 call center turns to AI to take non-emergency calls amid critical staffing shortage
October 08, 2026Nicolás Maduro and his wife face new charges over alleged torture of Americans
October 08, 2026California strawberry farmers have applied steam to fields as an alternative to chemical fumigants used to kill soil-borne diseases
October 08, 2026The Kremlin has long maintained a culture of secrecy when it comes to controlling public information, especially involving accidents -- from industrial disasters to health emergencies
October 08, 2026Trump stumps for embattled Texas Senate candidate at raucous rally
October 08, 2026Upscale AI, a startup valued at $2 billion in June, launched a networking platform on Thursday that allows customers to build data centers using AI chips from different suppliers.
October 08, 2026Russia said on Thursday it had completed health checks on all the contacts of a deceased lab worker at a plague research facility in Siberia, signalling a desire to draw a
October 08, 2026Drones hit a data centre owned by Russia's Yandex, the country's leading AI and technology company said on Thursday, in the first major
October 08, 2026Amazon on Thursday unveiled a slate of higher-end tablets that for the first time feature its Alexa+ voice assistant and run on Google's Android
October 08, 2026GlobalFoundries on Thursday said it has reached a $2 billion agreement to make a key component used to link AI processors and memory chips for TSMC at its New York facility.
October 08, 2026‘Everything is normal’: Life inside the Siberian cities at the center of a plague scare
October 08, 2026Don’t miss the Draconid meteor shower, a celestial event that won’t take all night
October 08, 2026AI models will refuse to say whether a person’s face looks gay or straight, but they will alter images of faces to fit stereotypes of gay and straight.
October 08, 2026If you think about leap years, it may seem like humans have a very odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers even have to add extra seconds to clocks.
October 08, 2026A hurricane could cripple US refining when the world can least afford it
October 08, 2026Technology companies and utilities are increasingly exploring ways to make power-hungry data centers more flexible in when and how they consume electricity,
October 08, 2026Russia says no epidemic risk as WHO pushes for transparency on plague lab death
October 08, 2026The ‘glass skin’ Korean beauty trend has risks, experts warn
October 08, 2026Pneumonic plague, by the numbers
October 08, 2026‘Political chameleon’: How Mark Zuckerberg charmed Trump and got his way on AI
October 08, 2026Restricting global warming is a matter of survival and too many countries are shirking their responsibility to cut emissions, the official presiding over
October 08, 2026The suspect behind recent cyberattacks at South Korean banks was likely a China-based 26-year-old who used a Chinese-developed AI agent and
October 08, 2026New York Governor Kathy Hochul will seek federal assistance to tackle the measles outbreak in the state, including support from the US Department
October 08, 2026A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast
October 08, 2026A Russian official has sought to turn the page on the death of a worker at a plague research lab in Siberia that sparked global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague
October 08, 2026Hedge fund WorldQuant said on Wednesday registrations for this year's flagship global quant research contest have almost doubled from a year earlier, as increased adoption of AI has
October 08, 2026A high-velocity drone launched at a disused Dutch airbase by the North Sea roars through the clouds and intercepts
October 08, 2026Butterfly Effect, the parent company of AI startup Manus, said on Thursday it had completed a more than $500 million funding round as the firm resumed independent operations after
October 08, 2026This year's El Niño will intensify before peaking in December and is nearly 100% certain to last until February 2027, the World Meteorological Organization said in its
October 08, 2026US has lost or sustained damage to 81 military aircraft worth up to $3.3 billion in Iran war, congressional report says
October 08, 2026Millions of hectares of protected tropical ecosystems are at risk from overlapping mining concessions and oil and gas blocks, researchers said on Thursday
October 08, 2026The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year
October 08, 2026Isaias rapidly intensifies into season’s first Atlantic hurricane as Gulf Coast braces for landfall
October 07, 2026IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.
October 08, 2026Asian shares slid on Thursday as strains in sovereign bond markets were aggravated by reports some major tech companies were seeking to raise billions in debt
October 08, 2026The US transportation department said late on Wednesday it approved a five-year exemption for Aurora and other self-driving trucking companies from
October 08, 2026President Donald Trump has turned emergency relief into a campaign talking point as a major hurricane approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast
October 08, 2026Blue Origin is likely to pursue an initial public offering in the coming years, billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday, after the space company raised $10 billion from
October 08, 2026Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected its quarterly profit would top 100 trillion won, a world first for a technology company, estimating
October 08, 2026Sri Lanka is facing severe drought, leaving reservoirs dry and farming communities struggling
October 08, 2026The families of thousands missing after Nepal's catastrophic floods have mixed feelings about the government's decision to stop search efforts
October 07, 2026Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died
October 08, 2026TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions of the tool, according
October 08, 2026Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before slamming into the southern US
October 07, 2026Some of the guardrails for children that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product do not work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children
October 08, 2026Christa Pike is “angry and confused” after surviving an attempt to execute her in Tennessee
October 07, 2026Chipmaker Wolfspeed said on Wednesday it has received a conditional loan commitment for up to $1.5 billion from the US Department of Defense to expand domestic production of silicon
October 08, 2026From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in the body depending on how they’re arranged in space.
October 08, 2026Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Erica Schwartz said
October 07, 2026Russia's health regulator said on Wednesday there were no risks of an epidemic breaking out in Siberia after a plague institute
October 07, 2026US President Donald Trump will speak at a White House event on scientific discovery on Thursday, according to a social media post from his tech adviser
October 08, 2026The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it will vote on October 29 to bar all Chinese labs from testing electronic devices such as
October 08, 2026Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday an AI coding model that can run directly on personal computers and new security technology to prevent AI agents from
October 07, 2026Humpback whales fill Monterey Bay, offering perfect whale-watching conditions
October 08, 2026Anthropic on Wednesday launched Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in its Claude 5.5 family in the past month, expanding its artificial intelligence lineup ahead of a planned IPO.
October 08, 2026Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee
October 07, 2026Teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on ChatGPT, while less than 2% of them interact with the chatbot for over three straight hours,
October 07, 2026Unknown virus leaves some Iowa patients sick for weeks
October 08, 2026Florida asked a state judge on Wednesday to order changes to Instagram and Facebook to better protect young users, pressing ahead with a lawsuit accusing parent
October 07, 2026FireFly Robotics, which makes electric turfgrass harvesters and autonomous golf-course mowers, on Wednesday filed to go public through a direct listing.
October 07, 2026Government officials in the United States can declare a state of emergency before severe weather events like hurricanes or floods strike an area
October 07, 2026Twin Cities boy gets Star Wars-themed wheelchair costume
October 08, 2026This island was home to the planet’s largest penguin colony. Here’s why it just lost that title
October 07, 2026The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with AI-generated voices
October 07, 2026Off-grid solar power is spreading across Brazil’s Amazon, helping remote communities prepare for severe drought while replacing costly, polluting diesel generators
October 06, 2026Scientists Henri B
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October 07, 2026The French government said on Wednesday it was pausing the use of stun grenades in its policing of student protests, after a 15-year-old
October 07, 2026Pope Leo urged an assembly of some 150 bishops from around the world to find "renewed ways" of helping modern families at the start of a week-long
October 07, 2026The US Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that it will vote on October 29 on whether to advance a new auction of wireless spectrum to
October 07, 2026Checklists, masks and mystery: What we know about the plague scare in Russia
October 07, 2026Huge companies have dominated AI. Two startups with an entirely different approach think they can do better
October 07, 2026The US government and tech heavyweights Meta Platforms and Google parent Alphabet are joining nonprofit Biohub to build open datasets to train AI models for biological
October 07, 2026For Paige Hansen, changing the food system starts with changing the ingredients
October 07, 2026Modern AI owes its existence to both cognitive and computer science. What you envision as its origin story can influence how you understand what large language models can do.
October 07, 2026The head of the International Monetary Fund says countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the AI boom and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine
October 07, 2026Ohio, North Carolina and Michigan have open seats on their state supreme court, and these hotly contested races will influence how those courts rule in several high-stakes cases.
October 07, 2026By the time Kenya's first Ebola patient was whisked to a hospital by relatives straight after landing at Nairobi
October 07, 2026Life sciences company Danaher said on Wednesday it plans to launch its first AI-powered autonomous research lab early next year to make drug discovery and development faster and more
October 07, 2026Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday welcomed Germany's backing for the US automaker's driver-assistance software system, as he seeks Europe-
October 07, 2026Existential and financial risks posed by the artificial intelligence boom were top of mind for investors and policymakers at two conferences in Singapore
October 07, 2026Russian authorities are keeping a tight lid on information about last week’s suspicious death of a lab worker in Siberia that has been surrounded by secrecy and claims that it could have been caused by pneumonic plague
October 07, 2026Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for solving a long-standing
October 07, 2026The Ebola outbreak in Congo is spreading rapidly to new hot spots where patients have little or no support
October 07, 2026AI is quickly changing. These tips from university librarians can help people keep pace with the shifts as they approach their research.
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