A slate of projects aimed at preserving the future of California's iconic Joshua tree in has been scrapped after the Trump administration blocked more than $25 million in funding for national parks this year.

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Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...

A treaty from the 1960s declared that nobody can own outer space. Half a century later, billionaires and superpowers see fortunes to be made nonetheless.

The painting, discovered in an estate sale in Michigan this summer, set a new auction record for Abercrombie at a Freeman’s sale in New York

Travel teams, high-end gear and specialized training are turning America’s pastime into a sport for rich kids.

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

In Israel and elsewhere, the line between his diplomacy and quest for wealth is fuzzy at best.

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President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

Trump reportedly consulted with Grok for hours on his next course of action in Venezuela before launching a military invasion.

History suggests that giving each president equal influence over the Court’s makeup could produce a healthier institution.

The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.

The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.

The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.

The Communist painter depicted the 1949–51 Foley Square trials while on assignment for a Marxist magazine.

The agency is removing chairs from document-checking stations.

“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to channel supernatural forces.