As Ted Schuur stepped along the edges of Smith Lake, a bubble surfaced from the muck underfoot. And then another. They're bubbles of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas made from decomposing plants an...

McDonald’s is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges its AI-enhanced pricing tool violates antitrust laws because it shares nonpublic data with competing franchisees.

Most families of the six U.S. soldiers killed in the deadliest attack of the Iran war aren't attending a White House reception for Gold Star families

Palestinian children in Israeli military detention

Scots-written Till the Bells Ring premiered a year before the Hollywood film, which featured spoken words by Al Jolson

From blood pressure to ageing, research suggests the first 1,000 days of sugar exposure could leave a decades-long mark on health

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Waiariki poll: 64% want Māori and Crown to define Treaty principles. Waititi leads the candidate vote at 42%. Labour 24%, Te Pāti Māori 23%, Greens 21%. 18% undecided.

The Greens want to close "Luxon's carve-outs" for commercial fishers in the Hauraki Gulf, phase out bottom trawling and protect 30 percent of it by reforming marine protected area legislation.

An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played in court.

The Prince of Wales tells the BBC we need to "accelerate" in finding solutions to climate challenges as Earthshot nominees are unveiled.

As a heat wave settled on the Red Sea in 2022, a patch of corals in a reef 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) off the coast of Saudi Arabia reacted differently than other corals. They’d been treated with…

Norma Bowe, 68, was flung to the ground at Delaney Hall, the infamous New Jersey detention center. She sees her lawsuit against ICE as one step towards justice

Three scientists to share 12m Swedish kronor prize for their work on ‘light-gated ion channels and optogenetics’

Amnesty International is calling for an end to the agency, whose record of violating human rights dates back decades

The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of ...

While the country’s ambition is to be the ‘Saudi Arabia of green energy’, communities in the north-east are bearing the cost in diminished health and livelihoods

Brussels and Washington are "closely" monitoring the evolution of a suspected plague outbreak in Siberia following the death of a lab worker. #EuropeNews

Refugees from third countries are being sent to Equatorial Guinea, where they are often sent back to the very countries they fled

Editorial: The Independent’s promotion of the disruptors, leaders and activists fighting the climate crisis shows the power of positive action – and the need to take on vested interests

Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.

Brussels and Washington are "closely" monitoring the evolution of a suspected plague outbreak in Siberia following the death of a lab worker. #EuropeNews

A gap looms between the Albanese government’s goal of 82% renewable energy and planned solar and wind projects

Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.

In a tough new ad for the Democrat running against Representative Jeff Crank, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre say the congressman refused to meet with them.

Credits are treated as a straight alternative to emissions cuts, but carbon stored in nature is different to burning millennia-old fossil fuels

The virus that causes chickenpox can reactivate during adulthood, causing the painful, itchy rash known as shingles.

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The party has climbed up four points in latest poll.

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The party also wants a passenger rail service between Christchurch and Dunedin.

Co-leaders Chlöe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson and Mt Albert candidate Ricardo Menéndez March are speaking.

Discount Mall Vape Ltd, a retailer with stores around the country, has been find following the first-of-its-kind prosecution.

If no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the election will go to a run-off on 25 October.

Over 1,180 Facebook posts and 100 TikTok videos analyzed showed how a genuine farmers’ protest was inflated by clusters of accounts sharing identical messages, then folded into anti-government, anti-EU and pro-Kremlin narratives.

Bobby Pulido has a strategy: show up at the 15th birthday parties that are a rite of passage in the Texas borderlands – and flip a key House district for Democrats

The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.