A powerful, slow-moving nor’easter continued to batter the Northeast on Sunday, leaving more than 130,000 customers without power and threatening coastal communities with another round of flooding at high tide. The storm remained just south of Long Island and east of northern New Jersey and was expected to linger in the region for about another day.
The fate of the Chagos Islands hinges on U.S. support for a sovereignty transfer from Britain to Mauritius. U.K. Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said Wednesday that officials were reviewing the pact after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the agreement; The Chagos Islands are home to a strategic U.K.-U.S. military base.
World leaders are painting quite different views of the future of artificial intelligence at the United Nations, with colorful phrases such as killer robots and super intelligence.
An amateur archaeologist has discovered a significant hoard of Roman silver coins in western Germany. Oliver Riedl found 934 Roman silver denarii in a field near Wesseling, south of Cologne.
After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around. Online voting began Tuesday for Fat Bear Week, the annual contest that pits the rotund residents of Katmai National Park and Preserve against each other for the title of most oversized ursine.
It's not hard to explain why business is booming for telehealth companies. The apps and websites offer quick, convenient access to prescriptions for sensitive medical conditions, including weight loss, sexual problems and mental health conditions. But U.S. regulators are increasingly singling them out for deceptive, unethical business practices.
New York has sued the prediction market Polymarket. It argues that the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and wants a judge to block the company from operating in the state.
A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable of deceiving users about privacy protections on the social media platform.
Local governments, tribes, and volunteer fire departments hit by Hurricane Helene can apply for a new round of state-funded grants to repair damaged infrastructure.
Meta is diving into AI with new wearable devices and an AI agent called Muse. At the company's annual Connect conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized optimism about AI's future. He distanced Meta from calls to slow AI development, arguing for empowering people.
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