(SAN FRANCISCO) — The dating app Bumble got stung after running billboard ads that appeared to sneer at celibacy as an alternative to meeting people online.On Monday, the company backtracked and apologized for billboards that bore...
(NEW ORLEANS) — Storms that slammed several Southern states added to the region's recent string of weather-related destruction and death, including that of a Louisiana woman who was nine months pregnant.The woman was killed after Monday...
(WILMINGTON, Del.) — Hunter Biden's federal gun case will go to trial next month, a judge said Tuesday, denying a bid by lawyers for the president's son to delay the prosecution.U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected Hunter...
(OCALA, Fla.) — A bus carrying farmworkers in central Florida overturned on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring about 40 other passengers, authorities said.The bus was transporting 53 farmworkers at about 6:40 a.m. when it...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. — Downhill skier Breezy Johnson has been banned for 14 months for three violations of anti-doping rules and can't race until December.The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency published its decision late Monday...
In A Red Record, civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells recounts the story of a lynching near Selma, Alabama, in which a young Black farmworker developed a consensual relationship with a white daughter of the household, and eventually fathered...
KYIV, Ukraine — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in an unannounced diplomatic mission to reassure Ukraine that it has American support as it struggles to defend against increasingly intense Russian...
(WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris used a profanity on Monday while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break through barriers.Harris was participating in a conversation...
(NEW YORK) — Donald Trump's fixer-turned-foe, Michael Cohen, directly implicated the former president in a hush money scheme Monday, telling jurors that his Celebrity client tasked him on several occasions to stifle stories about...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airlines are suing to block the Biden administration from requiring greater transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too...
(MADISON, Wis.) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted Health warnings across the Upper Midwest and Montana for the second year in a row.Fires raging in British Columbia and Alberta have filled the skies with haze over parts...
Melinda French Gates is stepping down as co-chair of the $75 billion foundation she helped run with her former husband, Bill Gates.Her last day will be June 7 and she’ll receive an additional $12.5 billion to use for her own charitable...
A single JPEG has catalyzed yet another rabid surge in the stock price of the video game store GameStop: its price jumped by more than 70% on Monday morning. On the evening of Sunday, May 12, a man named Keith Gill posted...
LIVONIA, Mich. — A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling.The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is...
WASHINGTON — The sharp interest rate hikes of the past two years will likely take longer than previously expected to bring down iNFLation, several Federal Reserve officials have said in recent comments, suggesting there may be few,...
Enough is enough.That’s the message from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia to the University of Chicago as U.S. colleges took a hard line against student protesters, resorting to...
The most popular baby names for 2023 are in, and the winners are Olivia and Liam. It’s the fifth year in a row that the names took the top slot. Noah and EMMA slid into second place for the second most popular boy and girl names,...
(SANDY, Utah) — Search crews on Friday recovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City a day earlier, officials said.The men — 23-year-old Andrew...
A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate Military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names had been removed, a reversal that some experts believe may be the first...
(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — An unusually strong solar storm headed toward Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. this weekend and potentially disrupt power and communications.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Police dismantled a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology early Friday and moved to clear protesters from University of Pennsylvania’s campus in Philadelphia, hours after police tear-gassed...
