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Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
In a night of wild emotions and odd ideas, one moment stood out.
Scientists say that August was the hottest month ever recorded globally. In the U.S., summer temperatures also shattered heat records.
Three years ago, the Defense Department led an ambitious international effort to better protect civilians during combat, a movement built on the bloody lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Desde traumas psicológicos graves hasta la exposición a polvo neurotóxico, los socorristas de la Zona Cero siguen enfrentando riesgos importantes para su salud.
Laptops don't usually get hot enough to burn—but they can still be harmful.
The Iran-backed militia routed Yemeni government forces in Mokha, putting the group in a stronger position to attack ships in a crucial waterway for global trade.
Unexpected GDP rise comes as borrowing costs and inflation risks mount ahead of Healey’s first budget
A year of feuds among MAGA figures shows how much the movement depended on Kirk personally.
The sweeping lawsuit brought by Common Cause argues federal agencies are illegally surveilling and intimidating people who try to peacefully observe federal immigration enforcement activity.
Within a few days of the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, FBI agents identified an important possible suspect: a middle-aged Saudi graduate student who provided crucial help to two of the al-Qaida hijackers as they settled in San Diego early the year before.
A CIA veteran explains that a polygraph campaign is not likely to eliminate leaks, but it may divert investigative energy from essential security priorities.
Judge tosses lawsuits, says plaintiffs didn't allege any real privacy violation.
On the second night of the Republican gathering in Dallas, Vice President JD Vance was the headliner. But President Trump returned to center stage.
In today’s newsletter: some think taxing the super-rich is a moral obligation, others says it drives cash away from the country. The truth may be somewhere in the middle
It wasn’t always regarded as the intensely athletic sport that it is.
An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.
Major League Baseball teams sign more players from the Dominican Republic each year than any nation besides the U.S. Almost every neighborhood is home to a baseball field where kids as young as 4 begin learning to play. In our months of reporting, we’ve rarely come across anyone in the Dominican who doesn’t have some connection to the sport: a sibling or uncle or son who aspires to be a professional player, or who once did.
A new study connects early winter heat high up on the plateau to the jet stream and, ultimately, storms headed for the US coast. The results could mean better forecasts.
Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.
The vice president, widely seen as a potential White House candidate, sought to use his speech in Dallas to show a more personal side to the MAGA faithful.
National Audit Office calls for greater transparency on £70bn programme that is running over budget and behind schedule
The leaders of the American right have embraced the false idea that the United States is at war with Islam.
Sports journalist Sabreena Merchant says culture war issues related to race and trans athletes threaten to overshadow exceptional play on the WNBA court.
Around 4 a.m. on Sept. 21, 2020, Luis David Saba arrived at a desolate stretch of highway along the southern coast of the Dominican Republic. Police and paramedics had left by then, taking with them a Jeep Grand Cherokee with a crumpled hood and the tangled remains of the cheap motorcycle it had smashed into. Also gone were the motorcycle’s two critically injured passengers. The only signs that an accident had occurred a few hours earlier were the blood and debris smeared across the asphalt and a pile of neatly placed branches.
Calls to reduce the use of antidepressants highlight valid issues with long-term use and withdrawal, but blanket efforts to discourage their use overlooks why they are so widely prescribed.
App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming.
Jacob Campbell was a baby when his mother was killed, and he has struggled to come to terms with the tragedy that shaped him. For the grandmother who raised him, it’s even harder.
National Audit Office says failure to implement £70bn modernisation would also hold back economic growth
Welcome to the Super Bowl of jet lag.
Barbara Keating died aboard one of the planes that hijackers slammed into the World Trade Center. Her remains were finally identified last year, and her family is gathering for a long-delayed funeral.
On an evening in late 2021, in a pristine baseball complex in central Santo Domingo, a baby-faced 14-year-old outfielder in athletic gear named Belfi Rivera huddled in front of a computer screen. Next to him was John Carmona, who had been Belfi’s trainer and de facto caretaker since he was 11 years old. In a nearby office, Belfi’s parents stared anxiously at a separate computer. On the screen, calling into the Dominican Republic, were representatives of the Arizona Diamondbacks, there for a conversation that promised to shift forever the fortunes of Belfi and his parents.
El Niño can affect agriculture, marine life and economies in profound ways, including slowing commerce at the Panama Canal. This El Niño is likely to be the strongest in over a century.
"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”
Election officials say proposed federal rules for the design of envelopes used to mail ballots to voters would be chaotic and costly, if not impossible, to carry out.
Christina Stambolian dress from 1994 has defined a whole category of fashion and is expected to fetch up to £220,000
His insistence during an overseas trip on championing democracy in foreign policy is now a relic.
The tech billionaire's attorney has put documentarian Alex Gibney and his production company on legal notice, claiming the Oscar-winning director defamed Musk in his nearly four-hour documentary.
Some U.S. Postal Service facilities failed to properly handle ballots during this year’s primary elections, according to a new audit from the agency’s Office of Inspector General. Election experts say the findings call into question the agency’s ability to meet even greater demands for the November election that are under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Many levees built in the mid-1900s do not offer enough protection for today’s storms, and small rural communities in particular struggle to afford needed upgrades.
The trick from <em>Next Generation</em> would be even more effective in real life.
A dizzying volley of court rulings in recent days has created widespread confusion about which congressional boundaries will be in effect in November.
The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice
An Anthropic researcher quit his job because he believes AI will destroy humanity. His story is going viral because so many others want to believe too.
Dr. Rupa Narra is a U.S. pediatrician who arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help care for stricken children. Nothing could have prepared her for what she'd face.
The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn little scrutiny or response.
What gardeners do at the end of the growing season will determine how clean, productive and manageable their garden beds will be when spring arrives.
Talarico talk to be on YouTube to save ABC stations the hassle of dealing with FCC.
The inquiry has sought to link disparate criminal inquiries into the president as a multiyear scheme to damage his political prospects.
Researchers find fossils ranging from 7,000 years to 46,000 years old showing evidence that devils may have become reliant on humans for scavenging
The George W. Bush administration circumvented the law to persecute alleged September 11 perpetrators. It backfired.
An East of Eden adaptation, a reboot of A Different World , Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson playing (possible) brothers ... Here's a sneak peek at what NPR critics will be watching in the next few months.
I’d like to tell you about Fred Steese, who died in August of cancer at 62. When I first met Fred, he was living hand to mouth in a seedy motel on the outskirts of Las Vegas. He had been released from prison a couple of years earlier and struggled to find stable housing and a job, because — on paper, at least — Fred appeared to be a convicted murderer.
An educated citizenry is the key to making self-government succeed, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson said.
DJI drones that already supply Mount Everest camps assist Nepal’s flood relief.
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine whether the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
Cranbrook, Kent: We are felling a crop of willow trees that have managed to survive their nemesis – the grey squirrel – and are destined for the batter’s grip
At a midterm convention, Trump tries to defy the odds one last time.
The death of Charlie Kirk was seen as a rallying call for young conservatives. But as his supporters reflect on the past year, some paint a more complicated picture of the organization he left behind.
Before I joined ProPublica in 2021, I had spent a year writing about a Georgia prison physician named Carlo Musso , one of the rare doctors who’d openly talked about his role in lethal injections. After he stepped away from that work, I wanted to know who replaced him, so I filed open records requests for documents that would shed light on that.
Having a vivid, detailed memory of a remarkable event like 9/11 can seem like a demonstration of patriotism and a connection with other Americans.
"Artemis II is done."
The technology is far from the only existential risk our species faces. But weighing such cosmic fears can become a mind-bending exercise.
The president demonised Democrats in an attempt to wangle votes in midterms despite backlash over Iran war
Moscow doesn’t want a conventional war, but it is busy fighting a hybrid one.
President Trump again touted his "Trump dividend" in his closing speech at the Republican convention. Vice President Vance used his remarks to urge voters to back Republicans, even if they disagree.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, creating confusion about his net worth and holdings, a review by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found.
Bacteria use strategies similar to artificial neural networks to use the past to adapt to the future.
A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.