Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye
September 12, 2026House Democrats urge Speaker Johnson to cancel recess to pass AI safeguards, citing ‘catastrophic’ risk
September 12, 2026The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to briefly extend the current arms embargo on Sudan’s western Darfur region while negotiations continue on a contentious U.S. proposal to expand the embargo throughout the country
September 12, 2026The price of diesel is hitting record highs just as many U.S. farmers are harvesting two of the nation’s largest commodities, soybeans and corn
September 11, 2026The Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a lifeline for the global economy, is in jeopardy
September 11, 2026CDC issues alert about nationwide increase in rabies exposures
September 12, 2026The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has now spread to seven provinces in the country, local authorities said
September 11, 2026A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a baby girl from an embryo frozen for 22 years
September 11, 2026Iranian allies captured a strategic Red Sea island in a vital waterway. Here’s what to know
September 10, 2026U.S. health officials have declared the largest cyclospora food poisoning outbreak in the country's history over
September 11, 2026The Justice Department says an Afghan woman who was accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot in the United States and whose case was the first for an obscure and long-dormant court has been deported
September 11, 2026Scientists look inside the ‘spider’ growing on the tip of a rare viper’s tail
September 11, 2026The death toll from a ferry fire in the Philippines has risen to 35, with 54 still missing
September 11, 2026When state health departments, federal health agencies and medical societies diverge, how is an ordinary person supposed to know whom to trust?
September 11, 2026The settlement calls for changes to Meta’s platforms but does not change the company’s surveillance-based business model
September 11, 2026A report that one of Trump’s aides went a year without routine vetting raises a question a former CIA executive knows well: What is that process for?
September 11, 2026A century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places they don’t look or expect.
September 11, 2026A senior British defense official says more than half a million Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022
September 11, 2026Rich nations are handing Nepal a climate crisis bill it can’t afford
September 11, 2026Anthropic says it blocked possible attempts to use AI to develop bioweapons
September 11, 2026Lawmakers are demanding information from OpenAI with separate queries that underscore growing concerns in Washington about the potential for artificial intelligence programs eluding human control
September 11, 2026What we know about NYC’s newly released 9/11 records revealing officials misled public about air safety
September 09, 2026Anthropic says it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its artificial intelligence models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance and research that could have led to biological weapons
September 11, 2026Cyclospora outbreak declared over by the CDC
September 11, 2026AI’s confusing terms, explained
September 11, 2026First-ever adult Tyrannosaurus rex trackway discovered in North Dakota badlands
September 11, 2026The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is honoring the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a special exhibit
September 11, 2026The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading rapidly beyond its epicenter, according to Africa's top health body
September 11, 2026CNN's Pete Muntean has the latest on the deadly Amazon cargo plane crash. The chair of the NTSB gives new details about the dead and injured, and the ongoing investigation.
September 09, 2026A 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.
September 10, 2026The AI boom and tariff uncertainty are pushing copper prices to record highs
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September 10, 2026Rescuers are struggling to get into a passenger ferry that had caught fire off the western Philippines, leaving five people dead and 86 missing
September 10, 2026El 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.
September 10, 2026The closest planet to our sun is shrinking. Here’s what that means
September 10, 2026An educated citizenry is the key to making self-government succeed, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson said.
September 10, 2026What gardeners do at the end of the growing season will determine how clean, productive and manageable their garden beds will be when spring arrives.
September 10, 2026Many 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.
September 10, 2026Thousands of water systems nationwide still have not accounted for potentially dangerous lead pipes supplying homes and businesses with drinking water
September 10, 2026Bacteria use strategies similar to artificial neural networks to use the past to adapt to the future.
September 10, 2026A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected
September 10, 2026Why there will be a new moment of silence at this year’s Ground Zero ceremony
September 10, 2026Emergency slide deploys on Qatari-gifted Air Force One before Trump departs for GOP convention
September 10, 2026Drinking very hot beverages could triple cancer risk, large study finds
September 10, 2026Cameras disabled, inspectors blocked: Nuclear watchdog asks for help with Iran
September 10, 2026Asian teens race ahead of US peers for reading, science and math in global rankings
September 10, 2026If you're booking a trip soon, you need to watch out for travel scams
September 10, 2026If August felt like the hottest month on Earth … you’re right
September 10, 2026California has long been farm country, and its oceans soon could be, too
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