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‘It was a great conversation,’ Elon Musk writes on X after meeting with rival billionaire and president-elect

Authorities identify Natalie Rupnow, the 15-year-old school shooter in Madison, with a turbulent home life and therapy enrollment.

If past is prologue, a second Trump administration could crush the First Amendment

President-elect Trump to meet with Amazon's Jeff Bezos, who plans to donate President-Elect Trump To Meet With Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos million to inauguration. Controversy surrounds Bezos' ownership of The Washi...

Everything is crazy expensive right now, and auto insurance companies aren't helping. Data from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics show average premiums are way up. In just the last three years, the consumer price index for motor vehicle insurance leaped from 568.24 to 866.13. By comparison, the index was flat…

California is the first state planning to phase out the sales of gas-powered vehicles by 2035, but that decision isn't federally approved yet. Now President Biden is racing to safeguard his climate legacy before leaving office next month, pushing forward multiple climate-focused agendas in the final days of his tenure. That…

Day McCarthy's conviction marks Brazil's toughest racism penalty as prosecutions surge, with 4,871 cases filed between 2020 and 2023.

The recent fall of the Assad regime has infused new hope in the search for Austin Tice, an American detained in Syria for a decade, as prisoners in jails across the country are released, Gustaf Kilander writes

The new gatekeepers use ‘trust’ to discredit the press and talk about removing bias with AI - distracting us from their own shift to the right

A lawsuit against Character.ai alleges that the chatbot app encouraged self-harm and suggested a teen kill his parents for limiting his screen time.

Amazon said the items violated its guidelines