STORY: Firefighters near Brazil's capital managed to extinguish a massive forest fire on Wednesday (Sept. 4). The blaze had been raging for two days and… Read More »Forest fire destroys 20% of Brasilia's forest, arson suspected
Enlarge / The last Vega rocket lifts off from the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. The final flight of Europe's Vega rocket took off… Read More »The Vega rocket never found its commercial niche. After tonight, it's gone.
Copycats have jumped on a soon-to-be-announced crypto venture tied to presidential candidate Donald Trump and his family, exploiting gaps in information about the project to… Read More »Copycats are capitalizing on Trumps' delay in unveiling crypto
Aldi has once again been named the cheapest supermarket in the UK, with an average household basket of groceries and other essentials costing £110.58 in… Read More »UK's cheapest supermarket revealed
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is expected to raise national security concerns over the sale of the iconic steelmaker to Japan's… Read More »Biden expected to block Nippon's takeover of US steel industry
From Donald Trump's perspective, his upcoming conviction in the New York hush money case should also include a prison sentence. A spokesman for his 2024… Read More »Trump campaign says former president believes 'anyone convicted of a crime' should be jailed
The dispute began in the early days of the pandemic, when the organization expanded access to a free online collection of books.
The Internet Archive has lost a major legal battle, in a decision that could have a significant impact on the future of internet history. Today,… Read More »The Internet Archive loses its appeal in a major copyright case
At least four people were killed and nine injured in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Barrow County on Wednesday morning. A 14-year-old suspect,… Read More »What we know about the victims
Enlarge / The Artemis II Orion spacecraft is being prepared for testing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in June 2024. NASA / Rad… Read More »After Starliner, NASA still has a big decision to make about human spaceflight
She covered infamous legal cases and gave readers an unvarnished look at the seedy side of fame, told in many of the country's most compelling… Read More »Linda Deutsch, dean of AP's court reporting department, dies at 80
Colombian freight and passenger carriers continued a protest Wednesday that blocked access to the capital Bogota and caused chaos in the city's streets. The drivers… Read More »Traffic in Colombia in chaos after fuel price negotiations fail
The company is an increasingly popular source of political news, adding more content on how elections work and media literacy.
In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems. The move significantly improved the efficiency of its e-commerce operations and ushered in a… Read More »Could this be the beginning of Amazon's next robot revolution?
A barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon on Wednesday, September 4, caused damage and sparked fires in northern Israel, Israeli media and the Israeli Defense… Read More »House in northern Israel damaged by Hezbollah rocket attack
