Sci/Tech News

January 27, 2020

Workers criticize Amazon on climate despite risk to jobs

Hundreds of employees are openly criticizing Amazon's record on climate change despite what they say is a company policy that ...

January 26, 2020

Lessons learned from 2016, but US faces new election threats

It’s been more than three years since Russia's sweeping and systematic effort to interfere in U.S. elections through ...

January 26, 2020

India celebrates Republic Day with military parade

Thousands of Indians converged on a ceremonial boulevard in the capital amid tight security to celebrate the Republic Day on ...

January 25, 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's fusillade of misfires on fateful week

Abroad, at home and in Twitter's ether, President Donald Trump unleashed a fusillade of statements over the past week as the ...

January 25, 2020

Campaign crunch time forces progressives to eye private jets

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have spent the past year courting the Democratic Party's base with appeals to the working ...

January 25, 2020

Spacewalking astronauts plug leak, finish fixing detector

Spacewalking astronauts plugged a leak in a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday, ...

January 25, 2020

Chicago woman with coronavirus in good condition

A Chicago woman diagnosed with the dangerous new virus from China is said to be in "good condition" health officials ...

January 25, 2020

'This is huge': Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades

The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their ...

January 25, 2020

Heavy rains in Brazil cause flooding, landslides; 11 killed

Heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in southeast Brazil, killing at least 11 people, authorities said Saturday.

January 24, 2020

Second US new virus case confirmed in Chicago

A Chicago woman has become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with a new virus from China, health officials said Friday.

January 24, 2020

Dems pick Whitmer, Escobar for Trump State of Union response

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address ...

January 24, 2020

Fire kills 11 youths hunting animals in field in Venezuela

Eleven young people, mostly teenagers, who were hunting small animals died in a fire that swept through a sugarcane field in ...

January 24, 2020

Trump ups mileage proposal, but it's well below Obama plan

The Trump administration is making a concession on its proposed minimum fuel economy requirement for new vehicles, but ...

January 24, 2020

Greece: Government websites hit by cyberattack

The Greek government said Friday that the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service ...

January 24, 2020

For hippo Fiona's 3rd birthday, zoo seeks aid for Australia

The Cincinnati Zoo is using the third birthday of its beloved hippo, born premature, as a way to raise money for Australian ...

January 24, 2020

Puerto Ricans protest in anger over unused emergency aid

Hundreds of people joined a protest Thursday organized by Puerto Rican singer René Pérez of Calle 13 fame in a demonstration ...

January 24, 2020

Coalition of states sue over rules governing 3D-printed guns

Attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a federal regulation that ...

January 24, 2020

Questions linger over investigation into Jeff Bezos' hacking

Cybersecurity experts said Thursday there were still many unanswered questions from an investigation commissioned by Jeff ...

January 24, 2020

Washington files multistate lawsuit to block 3D gun files

A move by the Trump administration to allow 3D-printed gun files to be released on the internet would make it easier for ...

January 23, 2020

Trump rollback could leave waterways vulnerable to pollution

The Trump administration on Thursday ended federal protection for many of the nation's millions of miles of streams, arroyos ...