Bear 89, an adult brown bear nicknamed Backpack, is crowned the champion of 2026's Fat Bear Week. The tournament is held annually by Alaska's Katmai national park to celebrate the animals' preparation for winter hibernation.

Conspiracies and consequences.

Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line

Russia’s decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now cost the country some 450,000 lives, according to a new study that estimates the war’s total casualty numbers to have surpassed 2 m...

Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.

The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.

Yemeni brothers bring New York-style falafel to Hell’s Kitchen with affordable sandwiches, unique flavors and late-night dining at Krispy Chickpea.

FDA elevates salad dressing and popcorn recalls to highest risk level over Salmonella concerns as food safety remains under scrutiny.

Study uncovers hidden gills and fish-like teeth in 345-million-year-old fossil, challenging ideas about the origins of reptiles.

Remember – these moths are not an inconvenience they are a blessing

Figure cited by minister highlights trade-offs Kyiv faces as it tries to keep normal life moving amid Russian strikes Missile alerts are costing Ukraine an estimated $45m (£34m) for every hour they bring business to a halt, according to the country’s economy minister, as Kyiv searches for ways to keep the economy running under an intensifying Russian bombardment. Russia has increasingly targeted the infrastructure underpinning Ukraine’s economy, striking industrial sites, warehouses, logistics hubs and datacentres in what Oleksandr Kravchenko, the minister for economy and the environment, described as an effort to “destroy pretty much the entire economy”. Continue reading...

I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…

Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.

Parton started the organization in 1995 in honor of her father, who couldn’t read or write.