This isn’t a war! It was a preemptive strike!” That’s the ludicrous narrative the Trump administration and the GOP have been touting since the US and Israel launched an illegal attack on Iran less ...

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

In US-blockaded Cuba, ingenious mechanics and inventors revive old machines to survive during a time of scarcity. When the ...

Presidential commentary on UFOs didn’t begin in the age of podcasts and social media. For more than 200 years, the question ...

Less than a week after winning the men's singles title on Olympic ice, Mikhail Shaidorov dressed as a panda and hopped with ...

President Donald Trump is determined to answer a question that has tormented humanity for centuries: do aliens exist?

Trump imposed his so-called “reciprocal tariffs” in April 2025 using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a rule that allows the president to regulate commerce in case of a national ...

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President Donald Trump said he will direct the release of government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life and unidentified aerial phenomena, saying there is "tremendous interest" in the ...

On Earth, life thrives in some of the most seemingly inhospitable environments. Single-celled organisms like bacteria teem in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, where temperatures reach ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The sheriff investigating the apparent abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother said Friday he was frustrated that a camera at Nancy Guthrie ‘s home wasn’t able to ...