Latest

Rubén Rocha Moya, the first sitting Mexican governor charged by U.S. prosecutors with drug trafficking, abandoned a surprise comeback bid after his own party revolted — leaving Sinaloa without a confirmed leader as gunmen killed at least eight people in a single day.

The Chinese automaker carved its humanoid-robot business into a new company, Dogotix, in the largest private funding round yet for China's embodied-AI industry — hours after reporting weaker-than-expected car sales.

Attorney General Rob Bonta accused Paramount Skydance of leaking and misrepresenting confidential settlement talks, canceling a planned Monday meeting in the states' antitrust fight over the company's $110 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.

Alibaba priced the largest share placement in Hong Kong's history and unveiled its newest AI video model on the same day, doubling down on a multibillion-dollar bet on AI infrastructure even as capital spending crushes profit.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner pulled out of the US Open on Friday, his third straight hardcourt withdrawal of the summer, handing the No. 1 seed to Alexander Zverev as Carlos Alcaraz returns from his own long layoff.

The average temperature of the world's oceans reached 21.1 degrees Celsius on August 22, the highest daily reading ever recorded and an unusual one because sea temperatures normally peak in spring, not late summer.

Tom Holland's fourth solo outing as Peter Parker topped the domestic box office for a fourth straight weekend, pushing its total past $854 million and putting it on pace to challenge the all-time North American record.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled sanctions on nearly 60 individuals, entities and vessels tied to Iran's oil, shipping, gold and cryptocurrency networks Monday, a campaign he called the country's economic D-Day.

A derecho and days of record flooding across Indiana this month killed at least seven people and knocked out power to more than a million customers; Governor Mike Braun has now asked the White House for a major disaster declaration covering 54 counties.

On the eve of trial, the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Zillow and Redfin resolving claims that Zillow illegally paid Redfin $100 million to exit the rental-advertising market, requiring Redfin to rebuild a competing listings business within six months.

President Trump said Monday the United States will raise tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks and auto parts to 50 percent on January 1, 2027, three days after collapsed trade talks triggered a first round of steep duties on roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods.

The national average price of gasoline has climbed to its highest level ever for late August, even as AAA data show steady demand for cruises, national parks and European getaways over the holiday weekend.

Gauff won her second Cincinnati Open title in straight sets over friend and rival Jessica Pegula, capping the tournament's first all-American women's final in 56 years three weeks before the US Open.

The Hawk Fire has burned more than 15,000 acres with no containment since igniting northwest of Reno on August 22, prompting Nevada's governor to declare a state of emergency and evacuate tens of thousands of Washoe County residents.

The four-time Pro Bowler announced his retirement on Instagram, closing out a career split between the Cleveland Browns and Houston Texans that produced more than 7,300 rushing yards despite two serious knee injuries.

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary stay Friday freezing a lower-court injunction that had halted above-ground work on President Trump's 90,000-square-foot ballroom, without ruling on whether the project itself is lawful.

The Interior Department's newly finalized Colorado River operating rules avert an immediate crisis by spreading cuts across three states, but the ten-year framework behind them defers the basin's real reckoning with a permanently smaller river rather than resolving it.

Christopher Nolan's $250 million adaptation of Homer's epic overtook "Deadpool & Wolverine" worldwide, capping a record summer at the box office for Universal Pictures.

Collisions of oxygen and neon nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider have produced clear signatures of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter that filled the universe microseconds after the Big Bang, in the smallest nuclear systems yet shown to generate it.

Italy's oldest bank moved to acquire two larger rivals in an all-share deal, a defensive maneuver against a hostile takeover bid from Intesa Sanpaolo that is reshaping the country's banking landscape.

Walmart's second-quarter profit and revenue topped Wall Street's estimates, but the retailer's stock posted its steepest drop in years after US comparable-sales growth slowed sharply and executives gave a subdued outlook for the current quarter.

Spanish authorities moved more than 1,200 migrants from a makeshift camp on Ceuta's El Trampolín beach into new reception centres, nearly three weeks after roughly 72,000 people crossed from Morocco in the enclave's largest migration surge on record.

The retail giant's second-quarter results show American households cutting back as gasoline prices hit record highs for late summer and inflation ticks back up, even as one-time tariff refunds cushioned profits.

A Shenzhen court sentenced the once-richest man in Asia to life imprisonment and ordered his assets confiscated over financial fraud that concealed the liabilities behind Evergrande's collapse, closing out the criminal phase of the reckoning with China's most indebted property developer.

The Israeli military's Military Advocate General ordered criminal investigations into the 2024 killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab and the 2025 killing of 15 Palestinian rescue workers in Rafah — the first such probes of the Gaza war — while closing three other cases involving aid workers without charges.

A multistate Salmonella outbreak traced to Mexican-grown jalapeño peppers has sickened people in 32 states and spread from restaurant chains into grocery recalls at Whole Foods, Costco and other retailers.

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer have identified the fastest, closest-orbiting star yet seen around the Milky Way's central black hole, giving researchers a rare chance to directly measure how fast Sagittarius A* rotates.

A securities filing shows Google agreed to a custom-silicon partnership with Marvell that could be worth up to $120 billion through 2033, paying its supplier largely in equity as it diversifies its AI chip supply chain beyond Broadcom.

An individualized cancer vaccine that trains the immune system against a patient's own tumor mutations, given alongside the immunotherapy pembrolizumab, met its main goals in a 1,137-patient trial of high-risk melanoma — the first Phase 3 success for this kind of therapy.

State Rep. Angie Nixon defeated the far better-funded Alexander Vindman for the Democratic nomination in Florida's special Senate election, setting up a November matchup with Republican Sen. Ashley Moody.

A new DHS rule capping international student visas at four years, set to take effect September 15, targets a narrow fraud problem with a blunt instrument that its own 22,000-comment rulemaking record warned would disrupt the doctoral and medical programs that routinely run longer.

ABC and parent company Disney filed suit in federal court accusing the FCC of using an unusually early review of the network's broadcast licenses to punish it over news and entertainment programming, deepening a monthslong standoff with the Trump administration.

Treasury data showed federal debt crossing $40 trillion on August 18, doubling in less than a decade and pushing net interest costs above $1 trillion a year.

The vulnerabilities affect widely used Windows, VMware vCenter, SharePoint and macOS software; one has been tied to a suspected China-nexus campaign that has compromised hundreds of servers worldwide.

Etched, which builds specialized chips for running AI models rather than training them, raised $700 million led by Jane Street — which is also the four-year-old startup's first paying customer.

New Census Bureau data show housing starts fell sharply in July, with single-family construction down nearly 16 percent from a year ago even as builders pulled more permits, industry officials say.

A landmark Oakland trial over Meta's design choices for young users matters less for the astronomical damages figure attached to it than for the public accounting it is finally forcing — and the company's own courtroom record supports the states' case more than Meta's defenders admit.

The actress was found in cardiac arrest at a Greenville, South Carolina, apartment; the coroner's office says an autopsy found no signs of trauma, with a cause of death pending toxicology results.