More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress were among those arrested by Capitol Police on Tuesday afternoon as part of an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court. | Continue reading
Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday rejected criticism that the Supreme Court has improperly handled some of the cases that come to it as a part of its emergency docket without the benefit of a full briefing schedule and oral arguments. | Continue reading
More than 18 months into the coronavirus pandemic, a number of countries have decided it's time to open up and adopt a "living with Covid" model. | Continue reading
Journalism is often considered the first draft of history, but what happens when that draft is written on a software program that becomes obsolete? | Continue reading
When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was barricaded inside her office during the Capitol insurrection on January 6, she not only feared that mob would kill her, but that she would be raped if the rioters found her. | Continue reading
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation's collapse would have dire implications for our weather and life on Earth. | Continue reading
Fans and players were sent scrambling Saturday night at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, after at least four people were injured in a shooting outside the stadium, according to police. | Continue reading
The dangerous Delta variant poses a risk to the United States as the country works to ease out of the Covid-19 pandemic, but experts say the nation has the tools needed to overcome the threat -- if the public takes advantage of them. | Continue reading
Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, demonstrated their collective power at America's highest court on Thursday. | Continue reading
It was supposed to be the underworld's impenetrable communication tool, a digital safe space to plot crimes ranging from drug trafficking to murder away from the prying eyes of the law. | Continue reading
Tesla seems ready to move forward with a broader roll out of its autonomous driving software after a federal government investigation raised questions about initial, headline-grabbing findings from a fatal Tesla crash in Spring, Texas, last month. | Continue reading
Beijing has ordered China's cinemas to use the box office this year to spread propaganda celebrating the Communist Party. The country's movie fans aren't having it — and worry the new mandate is crowding out some of the Hollywood films they are clamoring for. | Continue reading
News of the Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce ricocheted around the world this week, raising a number of questions: What, why? What about the foundation? Is it too soon to ask Melinda to star in a reality TV series with Mackenzie Scott? | Continue reading
A new study indicates that the speed of glacier melt has "doubled over the past two decades" -- far faster than anticipated or previously measured. | Continue reading
For the past decade, conservationists have been airlifting black rhinos upside down. It's faster, cheaper and easier than other airlifting methods, but what is it like for the rhinos? A recent study has revealed surprising answers. | Continue reading
Covid-19 numbers may be on the decline in the United States after a year of collective grief. But with tens of thousands of deaths expected over the next few months, experts are warning Americans not to drop their guard just yet. | Continue reading
With no need to house a big engine under a long hood, electric pickup truck designers are getting creative with shapes. There's Tesla's wedge-shaped Cybertruck, and Amazon-backed Rivian is planning to put a trunk where the engine would normally go. | Continue reading
If you've gone into your local independent grocery store recently, chances are you'll still find a shortage of items like toilet paper, paper towels and cleaning supplies. | Continue reading
It's been almost a year since Michael Reagan, 50, came down with Covid-19. | Continue reading
Current and former top executives at SolarWinds are blaming a company intern for a critical lapse in password security that apparently went undiagnosed for years. | Continue reading
Lou Dobbs, the longtime host of the signature right-wing talk show on the Fox Business Network, was canned by the network on Friday night. | Continue reading
If there was any doubt about the urgency of President Joe Biden's mission to tackle racial inequality, it was erased in the searing moment an insurrectionist rioter brazenly paraded the Confederate flag through the US Capitol. | Continue reading
Brexit might be done and dusted, but its specter will loom over Britain for a long time yet. | Continue reading
His days as president of the United States may be numbered, but Donald Trump is going out of his way to light a string of wildfires for his successor to put out. | Continue reading
A thorough cleaning is part of the every-four-years tradition that comes with the outgoing president and his family swapping White House living with the incoming president and family. | Continue reading
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming announced Tuesday that she will vote to impeach President Donald Trump. Cheney is the third-highest ranking GOP leader in the US House of Representatives. | Continue reading
You might think your dog understands every word you say to him -- but chances are he isn't hanging on your every word, a new study has found. | Continue reading
Drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have been granted temporary authorization for emergency use of their Covid-19 vaccine in the UK, the companies announced. | Continue reading
More than 500,000 Australians have signed a petition calling for an inquiry into the dominance of Rupert Murdoch's media empire. | Continue reading
Two prominent Republican senators on Thursday ripped President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election in Michigan, with one going so far as to call the President's strategy "undemocratic." | Continue reading
From stifling of press to rewriting history to discrediting justices who object to extra-legal practices, Trump's record bodes ill for the country and demands a vigorous push-back from citizens, writes historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat. | Continue reading
President Donald Trump's order of a further withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq is the latest foreign policy move on a growing list in his final weeks in office that are meant to limit President-elect Joe Biden's options before he takes office in January. | Continue reading
President Donald Trump had predicted in almost every campaign rally that the media would stop talking about the coronavirus pandemic the day after the election. But as it turns out, no one is ignoring the worsening tragedy more than the President himself. | Continue reading
Boston Celtics legend and basketball Hall of Famer Tommy Heinsohn has died, the team confirmed Tuesday. He was 86. | Continue reading
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris say they will move the US Covid-19 pandemic response in a dramatically different direction. | Continue reading
Someone just scored a $114 million payday -- without playing the lottery or stepping into a casino. Instead, the check was signed by Uncle Sam. | Continue reading
Videos, photographs and text messages between individuals charged by the Department of Justice with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reveal details of their plan, their access to weapons and various training exercises. | Continue reading
A crisp Benjamin Franklin will get you your own private movie theater. | Continue reading
Voters in North Carolina, Georgia and states across the country where early voting has begun have been waiting in line for hours to cast their ballots. One reason they're doing it despite being in the midst of a pandemic: They don't trust the mail to deliver their ballots. | Continue reading
Over the summer, as racial justice demonstrations swept through American cities, President Donald Trump warned he would wield the powers of government to suppress violence. Embracing a "law and order" mantle, Trump himself announced from the East Room a surge of federal agents an … | Continue reading
Thousands of mink have died at fur farms in Utah and Wisconsin after a series of coronavirus outbreaks. | Continue reading
Dialing in for his first interview since being hospitalized, President Donald Trump went on an hour-long ramble that devolved into vicious and sexist attacks on the Democrats running against him, desperate claims against old enemies and dangerous boasts about his own apparent rec … | Continue reading
Billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs is offloading some of her investments in journalism as the pandemic decimates the media industry. | Continue reading
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus, the President announced early Friday morning, an extraordinary development coming months into a global pandemic and in the final stretch of his reelection campaign. | Continue reading
The human tendency to believe change is temporary and that the future will again resemble the past is called "normalcy bias." Eventually, however, people need to adapt to change, psychologists say. | Continue reading
A new study reveals that this cold, rainy weather was part of a once-in-a-century climate anomaly that occurred from 1914 to 1919 and added to the severity of the 1918 pandemic -- research that has eerie similarities to the coronavirus crisis. | Continue reading
Scientists have woken up Alexander Fleming's original Pencillium mold and sequenced its genome for the first time. They say the information they have gleaned could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance. | Continue reading