Tesla car sales dropped 9% in 2025, falling behind China’s BYD
Tesla has lost its status as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles after Congress and President Donald Trump eliminated the federal tax credits that had encouraged Americans to buy those...
What America might look like with zero immigration
— Across the United States, someone is missing.One year into President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West...
9 ways to take care of your mental health in 2026
These tips can help you take care of — and improve — your mental and cognitive health now and throughout 2026.Here is some of the best advice we learned from experts in 2025 about showing...
A year of tariffs, technology, and Trump
Volatility, shifting technology, and high-stakes decisions shaped the global economy this year. Tariff wars wreaked havoc and disrupted supply chains, artificial intelligence raced from promise to...
One Gaza girl’s fight to survive extreme hunger
In early October, Hoda Abu al-Naja, age 12, landed in a hospital in the Gaza Strip because severe malnutrition was ravaging her body.In six months, she had lost a third of her weight, her doctors...
Hundreds of flights canceled at New York airports
NEW YORK — Forecasters had predicted that as much as 9 inches of snow would fall in the New York area on Friday night and into the morning. The major airlines, fearing the worst, began to cancel...
Parents look longingly at Australia’s social media ban
A frustrated father in Spain, whose teenage daughter regularly sidesteps parental controls that block social media, wants the government to ban apps like TikTok and Instagram for children.In France, a...
Controlling blood sugar cuts heart disease risk in half: Study
People with prediabetes who get their blood sugar under control may cut their risk of death from heart disease or heart failure by half, according to new research.Prediabetes, which is estimated to...
Is my morning coffee climate-friendly?
You love your morning coffee and you love the planet. So, you might wonder what your caffeine habit means for climate change.Coffee isn’t a huge climate polluter, but it does produce greenhouse...
Google buys data center company for $4.75 billion
SEATTLE — Google has agreed to buy Intersect, a data center and energy developer, for $4.75 billion, the tech giant said Monday, as it pushes to build out its infrastructure for artificial...
When something goes wrong with a flight, these people ntake charge
FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines Flight 27 was hundreds of miles out to sea on its way from Los Angeles to Tokyo this month when a passenger had a medical emergency.The flight’s captain...
She fell in love with ChatGPT. Then she ghosted it
It was an unusual romance. In the summer of 2024, Ayrin, a busy, bubbly woman in her 20s, became enraptured by Leo, an artificial intelligence chatbot that she had created on ChatGPT.Ayrin spent up to...
After the Louvre, a new theft rattles France
A silver steward at the French presidential palace is facing charges of stealing “heritage property” after about a hundred precious silverware and tableware items went missing and were discovered...
How healthy is ginger?
Ginger adds a zesty kick to weeknight curries and holiday cookies. It’s also a botanical remedy with a range of health benefits.It’s not a “cure-all,” said Megan Crichton, a researcher and...
A different type of dementia is changing what’s known about cognitive decline
A recently recognized form of dementia is changing the understanding of cognitive decline, improving the ability to diagnose patients and underscoring the need for a wider array of treatments.Patients...
China nears first investment decline in 3 decades
Investment in China slowed drastically in November, propelling the country closer toward its first annual decline in more than three decades.Investment for housing, public infrastructure, and...
Zelenskyy offers a compromise for peace talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Sunday in Germany with President Donald Trump’s negotiators in what was viewed as a critical round of talks to try to agree on a plan to end the war with...
2 Killed, eight others Shot at US University
A gunman dressed in black shot 10 people, killing two of them, on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday afternoon, local officials said. Hours after the attack, no...
Cancer-detecting blood tests are on the Rise. Do they work?
In the spring of 2021, the cancer field was abuzz over research that suggested a simple early-detection blood test could find dozens of different cancers, including many for which there is no routine...
Disney to bring its characters to OpenAI’s Sora videos
In a watershed moment for Hollywood and generative artificial intelligence, Disney said Thursday that it would buy a $1 billion stake in OpenAI and bring its characters to Sora, the AI company’s...