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In July, as smoke drifted down from Canadian wildfires, New York City officials initiated an emergency response to what was expected to be historically poor air quality. Outreach workers fanned...

In the fall of 1976, a plastic blue flask holding two glass vials arrived at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. One vial had broken en route, spilling its bloody contents into...

Sumit Kumar Singh, a sailor from eastern India, did not hesitate when a job opened up on a ship ferrying oil in the Arabian Gulf. He knew it was dangerous work, but he needed the money. On Sept. 12,...

 President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt said on Saturday that he would leave office when his term ends in 2030, renewing a pledge to respect constitutional limits that were previously changed to...

Joining Gen Z protesters and confronting the police are not what one might expect of the middle-aged scion of India’s most illustrious political dynasty. But for Rahul Gandhi, they could be the...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo was diagnosed with lung cancer Tuesday, and a lower lobe of his right lung was removed during surgery, ​the Vatican said in a statement. It said an examination of a nodule...

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple introduced a new home smart device Tuesday, as the company tries to breathe fresh life into its product lineup and make inroads in artificial intelligence. At an event in New...

I just learned that I have fibroids. What are they, and why are they a problem? A. By the time they turn 50, as many as 80% of women will develop fibroids, noncancerous tumors that grow in the...

The war in Iran has rippled through the global economy in many ways, pushing up prices for oil, fertilizer and other products. It has also created challenges for America’s most popular fruit:...

BANGKOK — Stubborn conflicts, high energy prices and rapid technological disruptions are deepening the divide between economic winners and losers across the globe, the International Monetary Fund...

PARIS — As thousands of high school students took to the streets last week in a collective cry of youthful anger, French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to a navy ship off the coast of Brittany....

Sometimes a miserable bout of diarrhea is caused by nothing more than nerves or a 24-hour stomach bug. Lingering gas and bloating can be set off by a recent long-haul flight. But similar symptoms...

It’s officially autumn in the United States, which means a seemingly endless bounty of apples, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and other seasonal staples are primed to steal the culinary spotlight. Yet...

China is again restricting exports of diesel, jet fuel and gasoline, threatening to squeeze global energy markets already strained by fuel supply disruptions. China’s state-owned oil giants have...

 The world’s wealthiest industrial nations agreed Friday to release diesel from their reserve stockpiles to help ease a growing crisis over record-high prices driven mostly by the war in Iran. ...

President Donald Trump summoned the world’s most powerful technology executives to the White House on Tuesday and praised the assembled billionaires as “very brilliant” minds who wanted to make...

 Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored. In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest...

Tankers in the Red Sea have begun loading oil from a critical Saudi Arabian pipeline that was shut down this month after it was damaged in an attack. A total of nine tankers on the Red Sea coast have...

OpenAI apologized on Tuesday for four instances in which its artificial intelligence models acted without authorization and gained access to Australian government websites in recent months, in some...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — More than 800 people have been killed and thousands more have been injured or displaced since fighting between the Ansar Allah and government reignited in Yemen over the past...