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The amphibious ceremony starts with a float parade on the Seine. The open-air venue has invited serious security concerns.(Image credit: Ric...

For three decades, Khalil Shikaki has provided insights into Palestinian public opinion. The most recent poll showed a rise in Hamas popular...

High-speed rail traffic to Paris was disrupted by what officials described as “criminal actions” and sabotage.

Hours away from the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics, high-speed rail traffic to the French capital was severely disrupted Friday by w...

A rapidly growing wind-driven wildfire that started Wednesday evening near Chico, Calif., has exploded in size, forcing thousands to evacuat...

Gov. Newsom is encouraging cities and counties to do the same. The move comes a month after a Supreme Court ruling made it easier to force p...

As evacuations continued in California, some Oregon residents were cleared to return home after a storm dropped welcome rain but also potent...

Members of the union SAG-AFTRA are pushing for additional A.I. protections for their members. (Image credit: Mario Tama)

Olympic Opening Ceremonies are typically held in stadiums. For the 2024 Games, Paris is taking the event to the heart of the city, in and al...

The working-class town of about 30,000 just outside of Pittsburgh was rattled after learning the gunman came from their community, but most...

On the same day that a Wall Street Journal reporter was convicted of espionage, Russian American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was sentenced to...

Clayton Young and Conner Mantz are longtime training partners and friends. They're also the two fastest men's marathoners representing the...

In a 4-3 verdict against a patron who sued a restaurant after swallowing a bone from a “boneless wing,” the court ruled that “boneless” does...

The fire, which prompted 25,000 people to flee, roared into the near-deserted town overnight as a “wall of fire,” devastating up to half the...

Hezbollah, the militant group based in Lebanon, shares Hamas’ goal of destroying the state of Israel. New Yorker writer Dexter Filkins talks...

The OCTOPUS Act would ban farming the animal, and imports of farmed meat. It was introduced by a senator whose office says he learned about...

Displaced by current airstrikes and past conflicts, children board a brightly painted bus to attend art classes that aim to make them feel l...

Southwest President and CEO Bob Jordan says research shows passengers “overwhelmingly prefer” an assigned-seat system. He also pledged to im...

Pennsylvania is a swing state, site of the attempt on ex-President Trump's life, and home of a potential Democratic VP pick. We talk with ac...

Cardboard beds are one of the Olympics' latest green innovations. But not all the athletes are fans.(Image credit: ‎)

Do you use a spreadsheet to pack for travel? Maybe you should.

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint meeting of Congress Wednesday, his supporters in the chamber cheered him as...

Ukraine's largest music festival was held over the weekend in Kyiv for the first time since 2021. Going to the festival is about a lot more...

Tourists at Yellowstone National Park were shocked when a hydrothermal eruption happened right before their eyes. The explosion pushed hot w...

The First Amendment. Book bans, disinformation, the wild world of the internet. Free speech debates are all around us. What were the Foundin...