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When SoftBank Group Corp CEO Masayoshi Son unveiled the wide-eyed android Pepper in 2014, he painted a vision of a new era of personal...

While Netflix's streaming competitors such as Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max's WarnerMedia focus on consolidation and studio acquisitions, Netflix is instead prioritizing its...

Hundreds of people demonstrated in North Carolina in response to Atrium Health's recent announcement that all employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Protesters marched...

China has begun construction of more than 100 new intercontinental ballistic missile silos in a desert near the northwestern city of Yumen, according to...

The Olympic trajectory that had Simone Biles on track for multiple gold medals has shifted from all but certain to, at best, hazy. Biles withdrew...

The US drug epidemic exploded while Americans were locked up, fueled by the coronavirus pandemic and an increase in fentanyl use. According to preliminary data...

Summer 2021 is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with all-time high temperatures in dozens of Western cities. The extreme heat...

According to a lengthy Facebook post, hydrogen peroxide is the Swiss Army Knife of home health care and cleanup, capable of serving as a...

According to the CDC, fit matters when it comes to your mask protecting you against COVID-19. According to new CDC findings, layering a fitting...

With his five-year search for the perfect notebook, a veteran tech CEO has added to Silicon Valley's growing list of idiosyncratic productivity hacks. David Selinger...

President Joe Biden's and his team is promising updated guidance on the reopening of schools next week. As more Covid-19 vaccines are being administered,...

A Montana hospital went into lockdown and called the police after a woman threatened violence because a relative's request for ivermectin treatment was denied. Another...

When the Food and Drug Administration halted the use of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine to assess the risk of blood clots in women...

Developing nations are faced with the gradual erosion of their foreign trade tax revenues, which subsequently reduces their overall tax income. In light of...

The United States Supreme Court signaled on Monday that it will not back down from its willingness to grant a legal protection known as...

After the Atlanta Hawks ruled out point guard Trae Young for Game 4, the Milwaukee Bucks' path became clearer. When Bucks All-NBA forward Giannis...

Since his days on the campaign trail, President Biden has tried to cast himself as diametrically opposed to President Donald Trump when it comes...

They are some of the top athletes in the world in their respective sports – elite in their training, meticulous in the preparation, the best...

Alex Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina lawyer at the center of multiple state investigations, is expected to surrender to police on Thursday, according to...

Francis slammed the spread of the old Latin Mass on Friday, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI's signature decisions in a major challenge to...

Russia has upped its saber rattling in Eastern Europe and the Arctic, a move that has put the Biden administration on alert. In the past...

According to new research, abrupt changes in Earth's climate thousands of years ago that caused extreme sea-level rise and mass ice cap melting can...

The new home of Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers is a 94-square-meter (1,011-square-foot) two-bedroom bungalow that resembles a boulder with windows. Its gray concrete walls'...

The president of the Women's Tennis Association has demanded that China investigate Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai's allegations against former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli,...

Governor Andrew Cuomo and the State of New York have issued warnings to hospitals about giving vaccines to elderly people before they finish fully...

Heavy-armed commandos kidnapped the princess on a yacht in the Indian Ocean. Despite her pleas, which were confirmed by two eyewitnesses aboard the US-flagged yacht...

In what could be the biggest head-turning move so far in Biden’s presidency, the new President has vowed to legalize over 11 million immigrants...

Human activities, such as the use of fossil fuels for transportation and electricity, have exacerbated the intensity of extreme rainfall and snowfall over land...

Ah yes, Venice Beach in California: synonymous with sun, surf, palm trees and, now, homeless people. In this Los Angeles-area town that has long drawn...

President Joe Biden insists that his $3.5 trillion ($5 trillion if the budget gimmicks are removed) "human infrastructure" bill "costs zero dollars." While every president...

On Tuesday, the FBI director defended his bureau's handling of intelligence ahead of the January 6 US Capitol riot, while telling lawmakers of an...

A fourth wave of COVID-19 is threatening to overwhelm US hospitals in areas where large numbers of unvaccinated people offer little resistance to the...

The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) reported that 560,826 mail-in ballots were rejected in the 2020 presidential election. The Election Administration Commission (EAC)...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons, whose workforce has been decimated by Trump-era hiring freezes, is advertising for thousands of new positions. After being decimated...

As the highly transmissible Delta variant sweeps across poorly vaccinated populations in the United States, a cluster of midwestern and southern states has emerged...

Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in a hand grenade blast during the Vietnam War but went on to become a U.S. senator from...

Snap Inc. issued a warning on Thursday about a long-feared internet advertising meltdown that could occur in the normally busy fourth quarter. Long feared because,...

The European Union's disease control agency has called for more rapid vaccination in Europe, as the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid is expected...

The family of a 42-year-old Black man who died in a barrage of bullets fired at his car by North Carolina sheriff's deputies are expected...

A helicopter crash in the Alaskan wilderness left five people, including one of Europe’s richest residents, dead after the chopper went down on Saturday...

Jonathan and Bryan Espinoza, brothers, claim they witnessed "chaos" at the Astroworld Festival from the moment they stepped inside. On Friday night, a crowd surge...

In an interview, Apple's SVP of software engineering explains the company's privacy changes in iOS 14.5. Apple's push to require app developers to request...

Ordinary Americans may be unaware of this, but political science buffs who live in and write about Washington are arguing about how bad things...

The Biden administration is moving forward with plans to wind down the long-term detention of migrant families, according to documents filed late Friday in...

Redacted versions of documents relating to Blue Origin's federal lawsuit against the federal government and SpaceX provide additional details about the dispute over a...

Democrats in the United States Congress suffered a crushing defeat in their effort to pass a major election reform bill, but they say they...

Formula One, like virtually all motorsports, is constantly changing. Rulesets change from year to year as new cars and engines enter the market. The...

College football has returned. For many, the return of a fall tradition is a welcome sight, but for others, the scenes of tens of...

Corporate pledges to bear a greater share of the cost of managing America's trash are being tested in Maine, which could become the first...

Chips can be found in nearly every electronic device you own, from your phone to your computer to your car. Chips can even be...

Amazon's interest has brought to light a young Indian fintech firm. On August 18, the American e-commerce behemoth made its first investment in India's wealth...

US President Joe Biden slipped a phrase into a major address on infrastructure spending earlier this month with a laugh, calling it a "boring...

With former President Donald Trump’s tax records finally in the hands of the New York district attorney, investigations are ramping up on whether or...

After more than 18 months of a pandemic, with one in every 545 Americans already killed by COVID-19, a sizable portion of the population...

A tuna fishing boat based in the Pacific island nation of Fiji that has been accused of effectively enslaving its crew was barred from...

By the end of the year, Lyft customers in Miami will be able to hail a robotaxi from Argo AI, an AV startup backed...

Paul Rusesabagina, the former hotelier who inspired the acclaimed 2004 film "Hotel Rwanda," claims he was tortured for several days by Rwandan authorities at...

Following her comments comparing COVID-19 safety to the Holocaust, a petition calling for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's expulsion from the House has gathered over...

Richard Drew, a photographer for nearly six decades, has learned a basic rule: "You can be two hours early, but not a 60th of...

Pidgeon Pagonis, an intersex activist, noticed last week that the TikTok hashtag #intersex was not working. They couldn't click the tag on one of...

The United States military will remain in Afghanistan until September, with the option of launching airstrikes against the Taliban to defend Afghan forces, according...

It was one of the worst phone calls I'd ever received: a friend in Kabul calling on a Sunday afternoon to tell me that...

Community leaders have questioned the New Zealand government’s decision to temporarily close the border to people travelling from India, and say they fear the...

Thousands of curious onlookers have flocked to an erupting volcano in Iceland to marvel at the hypnotic display of glowing red lava, the bravest...

Japan will release more than a million tons of treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, the government said Tuesday,...

The Russell Westbrook experiment in Los Angeles has yet to click, and I'm not sure it ever will. LeBron James' absence from games due...

The Biden administration acted quickly after a primary gasoline pipeline was compromised by a cyberattack, realizing that the situation posed a number of political...

Denise Forcer would become stressed just by opening her closet door for months. The suffocation of her belongings reminded her that she didn't know...

The US Department of Justice has no business — none — even considering interfering in the back-and-forth between parents and school administrators. Pedagogy and...

A Christchurch widow who witnessed the mosque attacks plans on leaving New Zealand after her daughter became a target of hate crime and now...

The first waves of arrests in the deadly siege at the United States Capitol targeted easy targets. Dozens of members of the pro-Trump mob...

When the United States opened trade relations with communist China, we were promised great things. Free trade, we were told, would expose the Middle Kingdom...

Colonial Pipeline's CEO faced tough questions from lawmakers Tuesday about his company's ransomware attack, which caused a major disruption in the nation's fuel supply...

It was the seventh day of the freediving world championship, which was being streamed live online from Cyprus. Women in the constant weight category...

Bradley Beal, the Washington Wizards' star guard, is coming off another outstanding season for the fledgling organization. Despite dealing with trade rumors on a near-daily...

Joe Biden is set to announce new actions to combat the coronavirus, including a nationwide campaign encouraging vaccine boosters, an expansion of at-home tests,...

Bryson DeChambeau is determined to be an outstanding team player at the Ryder Cup, and he wasted no time proving it on Tuesday. He spoke...

Nvidia (NVDA) unveiled a slew of new technologies this week at its GTC conference, ranging from an AI-powered chauffeur who can park your car...

With the nation's top public health officials as their audience, Senate Republicans on Thursday voiced their displeasure with the Biden administration's new broad-reaching vaccine...

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is launching a "pattern or practice" investigation into the Minneapolis police department. "Today, I am...