California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

Authorities in Athens have uncovered a new case of industrial waste ending up in the heavily polluted Kifissos River that traverses the capital, police said Tuesday and announced one arrest.

Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

Now substantial evidence has shown the extent of its involvement in the practice, it is time the nation faces up to the facts

Our checklist helps policymakers weigh what questions to ask, who to engage, and what tools are available to navigate the rapid development of data centers.

Air pollution's impact may extend beyond breathing, with researchers uncovering a surprising threat to long-term vision.

In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...

Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public about the viability of plastic recycling, causing the plastic waste crisis

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.

A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.

Though overallocation is one reason the river is shrinking, reduced snowpack and increased evaporation caused by climate change are also contributing factors.

In the first half of this year, oil and gas interests poured more than $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation.

The Department of Education deleted a social media video after users said a scene from "Darkest Hour" appeared to compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

The complaint also points to DOJ’s removal of a longstanding election-prosecution manual that warned against taking election records from local officials before certification.

State attorneys general allege that tech company intentionally designed addictive products that harm young people More than half of the states in the US have joined together in a sizable fight against Meta, the parent of Instagram and Facebook. Their landmark legal challenge goes to trial Tuesday. An unprecedented lawsuit, first filed by 29 state attorneys general in 2023, accuses the social media company of deliberately designing addictive products that lured in young people and caused them harm. Continue reading...

Meta is facing a massive lawsuit from four US states over the addictive designs of its platforms.

As dinosaur fossils sell to private collectors for increasingly awesome sums, scientists are worried that domestic museums are being priced out of the market. To find out how fossils became big business and what it could mean for research, Madeleine Finlay hears from science correspondent Nicola Davis

Details from recent court filings show that DOGE's influence within government—and potential conflicts of interest—extend further than previously known.

ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.

The $12.5 billion sale valuation is the largest in sports history.

Loose power lines in fire-prone forests have disproportionately set the country ablaze.

The southern regions of the country face a very high risk of fire on Monday

The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...

The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha, Nebraska, and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediate...

Halford Wilson was obsessed with keeping Chinese and Japanese Vancouverites out of well-to-do neighbourhoods

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

The FAA predicted Elon Musk's Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.

Senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly portrayed immigrants' political participation as an electoral threat.

The European Union will tell companies they must integrate watermarks and other markers into their content if it has been created by artificial intelligence from Sunday.

Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...

The federal warning comes after more than 30 water facilities in Minnesota were breached.

A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.