China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched ...

Elon Musk warns a new social network where AI agents talk to one another is the beginning of 'the singularity' Trump wants Republicans to 'take over' voting ahead of midterm elections State-owned land ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his life. A childhood with dogs taught him what to expect from animals, yet he was unprepared for the pig he ...

Once known as the “Hobby of the Kings,” coin collecting is a global pastime open to anyone with an appetite for accumulation. Coins can be appreciated due to their artwork, their rarity or their ...

Interactive Brokers (IBKR) is enabling eligible global clients to fund their brokerage accounts using stablecoins, it said on Thursday, The new capability, introduced last month, offers near-instant ...

America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...

The Royal Mint is rolling out a new 50p coin to honour Concorde. The coin has been created by design agency Osborne Ross. The reverse (tails) shows the aircraft in flight against a backdrop of a split ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — My husband went through a Triad McDonald's drive-thru the other day and saw the round-up, round-down notice on the window. Some stores and fast food spots started their own money ...

Mental health advocates came out in opposition to a proposal from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services they argue would privatize management of public mental health services during a ...

This story is excerpted from Shelter From the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration, available January 6, 2026, from The New Press. In Guatemala, outside the town of Jocotán, in ...