Alt: Octopus Punch. An almost rock-colored octopus is motionless in a crag of rock at the seafloor, next to a purple sea star. A fish approaches, and the octopus, with an almost human motion, reaches out an arm to punch at it. The fish moves off-screen quickly, making it look like it got punched out.

Casualties have been reported on the vessel, identified by a maritime intelligence firm as the oil and chemical tanker, Acers.

This year’s El Niño will intensify before peaking in December and is nearly 100% certain to last until February 2027, the World Meteorological Organization said in its monthly climate bulletin on Thursday, with sea surface temperatures set to break records.

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

U.S. President Donald Trump, facing protesters and a poor political climate, fought to rally Texas voters behind Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Wednesday night in a bid to stave off sweeping Democratic victories in the nation’s most populous red state.

Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, has died. She was 90.

An uninhabited volcanic island in the Southern Ocean used to be home to the largest penguin colony in the world — but not anymore. Scientists have discovered the staggering loss of more than half a million chinstrap penguins from the isolated outcrop.

President Donald Trump will travel without a primary print pool reporter for the first time in recent memory.

Health Minister Marjorie Michel says Canada is very closely following reports that a woman who worked at a plague research institute in Siberia has died.

Pennsylvania's health department reported 1,004 measles cases as of Monday, as the state ​grapples with a fast-growing outbreak.

The news outlet was supposed to travel with the president to Nebraska on Monday.

The arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman on Okinawa has drawn condemnation from Japan’s leaders and renewed protests against the heavy American military presence on the southern island.

The US Supreme Court is ​set on Monday to hear a bid by oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to thwart a ‌lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms caused by climate change, as the justices open a new nine-month term.

An analysis by economic, mental health and sleep experts has concluded that health evidence favours moving to permanent standard time, not daylight saving. Here's why.

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Trump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.

Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.

The US Supreme Court begins its ​new nine-month term on Monday with arguments in a major case involving a bid by oil companies ‌ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to scuttle a lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms caused by climate change.

Max Verstappen has taken his first win of the year but a retirement for George Russell handed a huge title boost to Kimi Antonelli at Formula 1’s Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.

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...