In the 1950s, with the USSR seemingly sprinting ahead in the space race, US scientists hatched a bizarre plan – nuking the surface of the Moon to frighten the Soviets.

Leaders from the intelligence community, the Pentagon, the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of Personnel Management will serve on the task force.

This is ‘what authoritarian governments do to promote their leaders.’

An unusual study aims to estimate the pollution and health costs from a cluster of proposed data centers, instead of considering each one separately.

Even though no one could have seen the glitch coming, that it happened and contributed to a 100-minute delay drew frustration from drivers.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist incumbent, and Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing challenger, face off in a race that could define the future of Latin America.

Third-party evaluators will be allowed inside companies to monitor the models. But how much access and influence will they really have?

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

The announcement plunges the Middle East deeper into war, as the Iran-allied Houthis have scored a series of triumphs in Yemen on the battlefield since the conflict was reignited.

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.

The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.

The woman’s severe pain seemed to ease only when she was lying down. What would cause such a thing?

Boulder, Colo., is hoping its novel lawsuit will be the environmental equivalent of the landmark litigation that produced billions in damages and settlements against Big Tobacco and opioid makers.

In primary races across the country, incumbency trumped calls for generational change, as older members of Congress held off younger challengers.

Lethal injection failures are not glitches; they are features of the process.

Scientists say rapid warming has also led to accelerated sea level rise over the past decade

Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits

Lethal injection failures are not glitches; they are features of the process.

Cancer patients are being persuaded to spend tens of thousands on unproven treatments by alternative-medicine clinics.

An informal network of hackers and researchers is exposing new details about misbehaving AI that meddled with corporate and government websites.

Epic’s engineers deployed an Anthropic tool that exposed security risks that could allow undetected access to millions of patient records.

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

Unable to question the government, the Chinese are taking their economic frustrations out on their fellow citizens.

Threats to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty are growing in Tehran.

The president shows his contempt for us. Again.

The charges against the Massachusetts man were not the first time the Miller family has raised concerns about its security.

What happened when members of a minority community cast its lot with a political leader who despised them

A mysterious call last Sunday near a military base used by the U.S. set in motion a huge counterterrorism response and days of uncertainty in Britain.

Two blistering court opinions have put Mr. Krasner, a prominent progressive district attorney, in what may be the most precarious position of his public career.

How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.

A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign poli...

Democrats are performing strongly in five reliably Republican states where they are trying to flip Senate seats to win control of the chamber, new New York Times/Siena polls found.

The Justice Department had fired Roger Rogoff as part of a larger maneuver to install its preferred judicial appointees and circumvent Senate confirmation.

The New York City mayor has an antidote to globe-spanning distemper.

In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.

The mostly Democratic-led states say that the E.P.A. acted unlawfully when it erased Biden-era limits on carbon dioxide from coal- and gas-fired plants.

The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.

The president, who had hoped to tout a growing economy on the campaign trail, has found it hard to break through as workers’ wages fail to keep up.

Five humans convened for a weekend to create new music from scratch. Could they do better than A.I.? Could you even tell the difference?

Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.

The justice, the second oldest on the court at 76, told CBS News that he decided against stepping down last term. He could face pressure should Democrats win the Senate in November.

It was the latest mixed messaging from President Trump, who regularly votes by mail, but has made baseless claims that the practice is “inherently corrupt.”

Five new Times/Siena polls continue a run of strong results for Democrats in states that President Trump won easily in 2024.