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LONDON — When Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won a whopping parliamentary majority in Britain’s election in July, it was with only 34% of the vote, leading one commentator to call it...

WASHINGTON — There was Carol Moseley Braun, the Illinois Democrat who in 1992 became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Nearly a quarter-century would pass before Kamala Harris became...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led the early counting in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections Sunday, riding a wave of popular anger at the established political...

The exchange, during a live-streamed forum with Oprah Winfrey and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, began with the kind of emotional set piece that has become a grim go-to for Democrats...

When the European Union adopted a ban on dental amalgam fillings earlier this year, its aim was to eliminate one of the last remaining intentional uses of mercury in Europe. The regulation is part of...

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million years...

Most people have two options when they want a new car: buy it with a traditional loan or lease it. Either can make sense, depending on your situation. If you’re looking for the lowest overall...

Motel 6, the budget hotel chain that has lined U.S. highways for decades, will be sold to Oyo, an India-based hotel operator, the companies announced Friday. Blackstone, the private equity giant...

Tens of millions of teenagers with Instagram accounts may soon find their public profiles made private.That’s because Instagram plans to default all new and existing accounts set up by people who...

People at NASA headquarters take deep breaths when the words 'First Story' appear in their email. Late this spring, Curt Niebur, the lead scientist for flight programs, received such a message. ...

MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump was playing golf Sunday afternoon in Florida when a Secret Service agent spotted a man with a rifle standing by a chain-link fence on the perimeter of the...

The latest iPhones, look virtually identical to last year’s models. But Apple hopes that what’s underneath — new software that brings what it describes as artificial intelligence to the new...

Running can be remarkably simple and impressively complex. It’s perhaps the most intuitive form of exercise, but taking the first step can be intimidating. The pandemic birthed a running boom...

In the waning days of summer, flu season can still feel a long way off. Yet some pharmacy chains have already started urging consumers to beat the crowds and schedule a flu vaccine. However,...

Thousands of Boeing workers went on strike Friday after overwhelmingly rejecting a contract their union negotiated, a potentially costly disruption to the aerospace giant as it tries to recover from a...

Rescuers in Myanmar said Friday that floods and landslides set off by Typhoon Yagi had killed at least 110 people, as the death toll from the storm kept rising across Southeast Asia, days after it...

Thousands of Boeing workers voted Thursday to go on strike after rejecting a contract offer from the company, a potentially costly disruption as Boeing tries to increase airplane production after a...

SAN FRANCISCO — Shortly before Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple filled a cramped auditorium in Cupertino, California, for the unveiling of its fifth iPhone. The device’s biggest selling point was a...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — President Joe Biden began the final stretch of his political career this week freed from the rigors of running for reelection, appearing by turns nostalgic, liberated, and — in...

Space programs are a small part of Boeing’s business, which is dominated by sales of commercial and military planes and equipment. But the work is a point of pride: Boeing has long been involved in...