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The 20-year-old driver of sport utility vehicle that crashed into a tree and burst into flames, killing four Maine Maritime Academy students, is facing 17 charges including four counts of manslaughter....

The US Navy has deployed a guided-missile submarine capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk missiles to the Middle East, a spokesman said Saturday, in what appeared to be a show of force toward Iran following recent tensions....

A truck crashed into pedestrians and motorcycle taxis near western Kenya's border with Tanzania, killing at least 10 people and injuring 10 others Saturday, authorities said....

Joe Blewitt is just about the busiest man in Ballina. His phone rings constantly with calls from locals and the world's media as he prepares to welcome a relative — US President Biden....

What a long, strange trip it's been. From its inaugural release to today, Android has transformed visually, conceptually and functionally — time and time again. Google's mobile operating system may have started out scrappy, but holy moly, ha...

The IRS is outlining how it plans to use an infusion of $80 billion for improved operations...

For more than a year, the Federal Reserve's inflation fighters have been tightening their grip on the American economy with nine straight interest rate hikes...

Eight Filipinos have been nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ's suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that is rejected by the Catholic church...

Tennessee's GOP-dominated House has expelled two of three Democratic members for their roles in a demonstration in favor of gun control following the Nashville school shooting...

Israeli medics say an alleged Palestinian shooting attack in the northern occupied West Bank killed two women and seriously wounded another, the latest violence after Israeli warplanes struck southern Lebanon in a significant escalation....

French workers marched and went on strike around the country Thursday for the 11th time in three months, as the stalemate between President Emmanuel Macron and labor unions endured even after his pension overhaul to raise the legal age of retirement to 64...

President Biden's administration on Thursday laid the blame on his predecessor, Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments of Biden's presidency....

The Town Meeting should adopt zoning changes that go beyond what the state is asking for....

The IRS is outlining how it plans to use an infusion of $80 billion for improved operations....

Microsoft today unveiled Windows 365 Frontline : a Cloud PC option aimed at frontline, shift, and part-time workers. The new subscription to Windows 365 allows organizations to purchase one license that can be shared by up to three workers on mobile devic...

The S&P 500 finished Thursday up 0.36% but still ended the week down 0.1% from last Friday, the first losing week in the last four. The index is currently up 6.92% year to date and is 14.42% below its record close from January 3, 2022....

While iPhones are seeing increasing use in the enterprise , most users could be getting a lot more productivity from their devices . That's the essential argument made in a Deloitte report , which points out that while most of us have become accustome...

A group of influential and informed tech types recently put forward a formal request that AI rollouts be paused for six months. I certainly understand concerns that artificial intelligence is advancing too fast, but trying to stop it in its tracks is a re...

Take a look at real (inflation-adjusted) charts of the S&P 500, Dow 30, and Nasdaq composite since their 2000 highs. We've updated this through the March 31, 2023 close....

This morning's seasonally adjusted 228K new claims were down 18K from the prior week but came in above the Investing.com forecast of 200K. The bigger news from this morning's report is the Department of Labor announced a data revision to seasonal ...

Here's an interesting set of charts that will especially resonate with those of us who follow economic and market cycles. Imagine that five years ago you invested $10,000 in the S&P 500. How much would it be worth today, with dividends reinvested but ...

The S&P 500 real monthly averages of daily closes peaked in November of 2021 and 2022 was a bear market. Let's examine the past to broaden our understanding of the range of historical trends in market performance....

The narrative around cheating students doesn't tell the whole story. Meet the teachers who think generative AI could actually make learning better....

Battery materials dot the ocean floor. Should we go get them?...

Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency says Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to reopen diplomatic missions in their respective capitals and in additional cities....

China vowed reprisals against Taiwan Thursday after a meeting between the US House Speaker and the island's President, saying the US was on a "wrong and dangerous road."...

LST-1 prototype in La Palma, Spain. Tomohiro Inada/CTA , CC BY-NC-ND Long gone are the days when astronomers only studied the skies with simple optical telescopes. Today, unveiling the mysteries of the Universe involves ever-larger and more complex facili...

Nathan Stirk/Getty Images The latest synthesis report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) makes it clear we need to prepare for intensifying impacts, while also cutting emissions dramatically. One beacon of hope is the globa...

I wouldn't take medical advice from GPT-4 or any other machine without checking it with a real doctor. But I suspect that will change before long....

As crucial as investments like prevention and recovery are, the cost of overdose deaths should not be overlooked....

Shutterstock When I was growing up monsteras (sometimes known as monsteria) were not all that common, but neither were indoor plants. In fact, monsteras were out of fashion back then but now monsteras are back and, appropriately, in a big way. The plants ...

Readers sense positive energy in 18-year-old Angus Abercrombie's successful run for Belmont Town Meeting member....

Twenty years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, much of the conflict and sectarian bloodletting it unleashed has subsided....

Two recent Globe commentaries on classical music struck a resounding chord with readers, who had their own views to share on the subject....

Luis Cristofori/Shutterstock Australia has an ambivalent relationship with dingoes to some they are almost magical representations of our arid landscapes, responsible for holding back a tide of foxes and feral cats , as found in some studies. To others th...

Elizabeth Campbell operating the Floyd Telescope, 1922 total solar eclipse. State Library Western Australia 4131B/3/8, enhanced detail , Author provided A total solar eclipse is a remarkable alignment of our Sun, Earth and the Moon, as the latter casts a ...

Mee Ko Dong/Shutterstock Australia has embarked on an experiment to create a market for biodiversity. No, we're not talking about buying and selling wildlife, although, sadly, there is a black market for that. This is about repairing and restoring lan...

Mike Corder / AP Last week, an Australian "cultured meat" company called Vow made headlines with a meatball made from the flesh of a woolly mammoth or something very much like it. Combining the technologies of lab-based cell culture and " de-e...

A diagram of a lunar eclipse from De Sphaera Mundi by Johannes de Sacrobosco, c. 1240 AD. New York Public Library Before humans started heating the planet by burning fossil fuels in the 19th century, Earth had experienced centuries-long widespread cool pe...

Old tensions emerged between green groups en route to the hard-fought Labor-Greens deal over the safeguard mechanism industrial emissions policy. At the height of negotiations, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) started lobbying the Greens to ac...

Philipp von Ditfurth/picture alliance via Getty Images Schools and universities are panicking about artificial intelligence (AI) and cheating. But AI presents far more significant threats to equity in education. Fears of cheating typically arise from conc...

The U.S. international trade in goods and services, also known as the FT-900, is published monthly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis with data going back to 1992 and details U.S. exports and imports of goods and services. The headline number of -$70.5B w...

Former President Donald Trump sits during his arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 4, 2023. Andrew Kelly-Pool/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump was arraigned in New York on April 4, 2023. Shortly after, the charges that a Manhattan gr...

Bitcoin continued to hover around $28,000 this past week and is up around 70% year-to-date. Here's the latest charts on three of the largest cryptocurrencies by market share through 4/4....

It's time to ensure any older Apple devices still in use by you or your company run the most recent version of the operating system available. That's because Apple wants users to upgrade to the latest version of the device OS as the company works ...

With the Q4 GDP third estimate and the March close data, we now have an updated look at the popular "Buffett Indicator" -- the ratio of corporate equities to GDP. The current reading is 151.8%, up from 146.8% the previous quarter....

Emerging Markets (EM) have faced a challenging environment over the past five years, due to a series of global shocks that have triggered elevated market volatility and led the MSCI EM equity benchmark to experience its most protracted drawdown in history...

Our monthly market valuation updates have long had the same conclusion: US stock indexes are significantly overvalued, which suggests cautious expectations for investment returns. On August 4, 2020, the 10-year Treasury yield hit its all-time low of 0.52%...

The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) has now released its March services purchasing managers' index (PMI). The headline composite index is at 51.2, down 3.9 from last month but still in expansion territory. Today's number came in above the Inv...