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UPS and FedEx, two of the world’s largest cargo airlines, said late Friday that they had grounded their MD-11 planes, days after one of the planes was involved in a deadly crash in Kentucky.Both...

The morning after Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, Jennifer Hue, a retired tax auditor living close to hard-hit Treasure Beach, woke up to devastation. Her mango, breadfruit and papaya trees...

For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group...

Tesla shareholders on Thursday approved a plan that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, two days after New Yorkers elected a tax-the-rich candidate as their next mayor.These...

NEW RIVER, Jamaica — Isaiah Beck, a carpenter, was trying to reach his house in the New River community in St. Elizabeth parish, on Jamaica’s storm-battered southwestern coast. His home was on the...

If you’re looking for a new pot or frying pan these days, prepare to get bombarded by terms like “nontoxic,” “PFAS-free” and “PTFE-free.”But these labels don’t necessarily mean what...

At once deeply personal and publicly scrutinized, hair sits at the boundary between biology and identity. Few attributes are as tied up in culture, beauty and expression as the strands that frame our...

Amazon is bracing for major job cuts among its corporate employees starting Tuesday, as it spends aggressively on artificial intelligence development, according to two people familiar with the...

 Elon Musk on Monday unveiled his own version of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia, with entries edited by xAI, his artificial intelligence company.The new project, Grokipedia, would...

HONG KONG — President Donald Trump began his weeklong trip to Asia on Sunday with agreements that secured commitments from Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia that could be used to support his broader...

During spring and fall migrations, billions of birds take to the night skies. The high-altitude darkness protects them from predators. Well, most predators. New research shows that bats can...

The Mandai Wildlife Reserve, a tourist park in Singapore, posted a video late last year that became a viral hit: two of its millennial-age employees, wearing staff uniforms, described the park using...

On Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023, Sam Terblanche, a junior at Columbia University, went to a soccer match at Yankee Stadium. On the subway ride there, he told friends he felt lousy. On Sunday, he went to...

Hollywood mourned in 2019 when 20th Century Fox ended its 84-year run as a stand-alone studio — for the jobs lost, for the proud legacy ended. But it was measured grief, the kind that quickly fades...

What is a vibe? Many know it when they see it. A vibe is a certain energy, a sense of familiarity, “a placeholder for an abstract quality that you can’t pin down,” as Kyle Chayka wrote in The...

India has a teeming population of able-bodied workers, tens of millions more than its employers can accommodate. Many other countries have the opposite problem: more jobs than workers.Today, across...

Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of HBO, CNN, and the Warner Bros. movie studio, just hung a “for sale” sign on its business.In a lengthy statement released Tuesday morning, Warner Bros....

PARIS — Jewelry stolen from the Louvre museum in a brazen weekend heist is worth an estimated 88 million euros, or a little over $100 million, the Paris prosecutor said Tuesday afternoon.“This sum...

In the spring of 2023, at an isolated archaeological site in the Nafud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, a day laborer named Saleh Idris stood beside a test trench, awaiting the next bucket of sediment...

A number of popular protein supplements contain levels of lead that could pose health concerns, according to a report published last week by a nonprofit group.The group, Consumer Reports, tested...