Charles Degliomini worries Maryland is racing toward a wall of its own making. The executive vice president at Rekor Systems — a Columbia-based technology firm that uses AI for roadway intelligence — says Baltimore-area jurisdictions’ fight against data centers is cutting off the very infrastructure artificial intelligence needs to keep up...Read more

Central Florida’s Luke Delaney will have wait a little longer to take his first trip to space as NASA and SpaceX have delayed the upcoming Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station.

In a Sunday update, NASA said testing of the Crew Dragon Grace, which has flown on one previous mission, revealed an oxidizer leak on the spacecraft’s ...Read more

SpaceX and NASA are delaying the launch of a planned mission to the International Space Station to fix an oxidizer leak in the Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system, the U.S. space agency said.

NASA and SpaceX are doing additional testing and didn’t announce a new target launch date for the Crew-13 mission, which will be staffed by American...Read more

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The skies cleared and NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket hurtling past a rising sun, headed for a mission to unravel some celestial mysteries.

The powerhouse rocket lifted off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A at 7:26 a.m. with the $4.3 billion telescope that’s off on a trip...Read more

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a $4.3-billion sister to the Hubble and James Webb telescopes — launched into space Sunday morning on a SpaceX rocket with space enthusiasts and scientists from around the world looking on.

Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists' inventory of planets outside...Read more

The catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people in Nepal on Aug. 26, 2026, and left many more missing likely began with falling ice and rock crashing into the river below, but that wasn’t the end of the disaster. Days later, a new lake pooled behind the debris and then burst, sending more water streaming through the valley.

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NASA is set to launch its latest multibillion-dollar telescope Sunday morning, as scientists gather at Florida's Space Coast and await liftoff with bated breath.

After riding atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope promises to vastly expand our knowledge of planets beyond our solar system and advance the search ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is caring this summer for an additional 500 animals rescued from wildlife traffickers.

It's not clear when the trafficked animals might join the roughly 12,000 turtles, frogs, octopuses, penguins, sharks and other sea creatures on public display.

The animals, including marine fish, ...Read more

A woman repeatedly raped as a child by a man who put photos and videos of the crimes online claims in a lawsuit that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI allowed imagery of her abuse onto its X social media platform, and that the company’s Grok chatbot generated additional child pornography from the images.

The woman, identified as ...Read more

The Trump administration is considering trading a parcel of Yosemite National Park to a private commercial developer, according to administration officials, members of Congress and documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

The proposed deal would allow the developer to build a road connecting adjacent property it already owns in the ...Read more

A section of Yosemite National Park could be cordoned off for private development at the request of the Trump administration, a national news outlet reported Friday.

NOTUS, a watchdog political news organization, reported Friday morning that Trump officials may be working with a private Nevada-based company to exchange roughly a quarter-mile ...Read more

After the Trump administration paid California offshore wind developers to abandon their leases and pursue oil and gas development instead, the state is fighting back.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the California Northern District, state Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission allege that one of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Though SpaceX’s powerful Starship won’t be flying from Florida for some time, the company’s powerhouse Falcon Heavy is set for a rare launch early Sunday.

The Falcon Heavy – essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strapped together – is set to take flight with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space ...Read more

If you recently left a job, it’s likely you lost access to your old inbox and the saved records of those tedious Zoom or Teams meetings. Leaving such digital detritus behind now is part of life. But we doubt you anticipated your employer being able to make money from what you had to say while gainfully employed.

Consider what just happened ...Read more

Last week, OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT for Teens, a new user experience crafted to help young people “learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence.” Maybe most importantly, OpenAI vowed that it would place any users its system “estimates” to be under 18 into the system “automatically.”

For nearly a ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature passed a bill Wednesday that would require the state to track the use of pesticides that contain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS chemicals, which can be harmful to humans.

The bill, by Assembly member Nick Schultz, a Democrat, heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who can ...Read more

Vape pens and other disposable e-cigarettes could soon be illegal in California.

On Wednesday, the state assembly approved Assembly Bill 762, which if signed by the governor, will make the battery-powered disposable devices illegal to manufacture, distribute or sell in the state. The bill passed the state Senate on Tuesday.

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Temperatures have warmed dramatically across the equatorial Pacific Ocean in 2026, signaling the onset of a strong and potentially historic El Niño. These events can affect weather around the world, and the intensity of recent El Niño events is raising alarm that, as global temperatures rise, these natural events are becoming stronger and ...Read more

For much of the last year, Alphabet Inc. has been the Big Tech stock to beat as investors bet that it was the most-likely winner from the artificial intelligence boom.

Alphabet shares hit an all-time high on May 13 after soaring more than 150% in the previous 12 months, putting them among the 25 best performers in the S&P 500 Index over that ...Read more