Imagine an ordinary Tuesday. You wash your hair, put on deodorant, drink coffee, pack lunch in a plastic container and commute through traffic to get to work. At work, the custodial staff wipes down a shared table with disinfectant. At home, you cook dinner, clean the kitchen and run the dishwasher.

Each of these ordinary moments can ...Read more

Many major tech companies have pledged to pay their fair share of the costs associated with generating and transmitting more electricity to serve large data centers. But ratepayers across the United States are worried about the potential costs they might have to bear. That’s because it’s not immediately clear how the cost of data centers�...Read more

One Saturday afternoon in May 2026, families gathered on Poklonnaya Gora, a hilltop war memorial park in western Moscow. They came for a procession and a “moleben,” an Orthodox prayer service, for the well-being of Russian families. Church media billed it as the first Day of the Sanctity of the Family.

May 30 is the feast of St. ...Read more

Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today. Practiced by millions of people in China and around the world, Daoism takes on many forms, stretching back from ancient roots to the modern world.

It challenges the conventions of how people often define religion. Unlike many ...Read more

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Why are our fingers different lengths? – Betty, age 8, California

It was one of those rushed mornings when I was already running late for work. In my hurry to grab my keys ...Read more

Spring migration has taken flight, but with rising temperatures and shifting seasons, birds are adjusting when and how they migrate to keep up with a rapidly warming climate.

Morgan Tingley, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, studies the effects of climate change on birds.

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A deadly overnight attack on the eve of the NATO summit highlighted Kyiv’s growing vulnerability as shortages of U.S.-made Patriot air defenses become acute and peace talks remain stalled.

Eleven people were killed and 60 injured in the overnight strikes on Kyiv that caused destruction in several districts of the city, damaging multiple ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Fireworks can frighten animals and send them scattering, but Jackie and Shadow's eaglets apparently are made of sterner stuff.

Chicks Luna and Sandy were seen safe and sound Sunday morning around 6 a.m. on the popular livestream nest cam aimed at their Big Bear pine tree, snacking on fish in the family aerie.

Mom and Dad did ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As extreme heat smothered the eastern United States over the July Fourth weekend and Europe struggled with its own deadly heat wave, experts warned that more record high temperatures could be in store for this year because of a strengthening El Niño.

"We know that temperatures are warming in the long term, linked to human-...Read more

WASHINGTON — Over the past year and a half, the Trump administration has turned repeatedly to the Supreme Court for clearance on its sweeping immigration enforcement plans. While the administration lost its bid this week to do away with birthright citizenship by executive order, its strategy has, in large part, been a success.

In a White ...Read more

Gilberto Pacheco was driving to work for a construction job in California when he was pulled over in what court papers called a “traffic stop” in January. He was not accused of any crime, not even a traffic infraction, but he was imprisoned without bond for months because he arrived illegally in the United States more than 30 years ago from ...Read more

Antidepressants didn’t do David Johnson’s oldest daughter any favors. Or maybe they did. It’s difficult to say when assessing his daughter’s decadelong struggle with depression.

“(She) cycled on and off a lot of the first-line drugs, the second-line drugs, and even some older drugs that they tend not to use anymore, just trying to ...Read more

It's tick season, possibly the worst in a decade.

More and more Americans are being exposed to these parasites as climate change expands the range where they can survive. That means more people are also exposed to the bevy of health conditions they can cause, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the alpha-gal-triggered red meat allergy, and, ...Read more

Ten years ago, a St. Anthony, Minn., police officer pulled over Philando Castile for a broken taillight. The encounter ended with the officer fatally shooting Castile in Falcon Heights.

Such a traffic stop would be less likely today, with Ramsey County’s top prosecutor and law enforcement leaders asking officers to focus on moving violations ...Read more

A 31-year-old Sacramento woman died after being mauled by an alligator in Florida.

Brittany Clark died June 28 after the attack that happened on a hike with her boyfriend and a friend at Little Big Econ State Forest near Orlando. The incident occurred when Clark and her colleagues took a break to swim in the Econlockhatchee River near the Barr ...Read more

Red, white and blue balloons swayed in the breeze as a brass band played and performers showed off traditional cultural attire, music and dance. Around 1,000 people were gathered to celebrate the city's newest U.S. citizens the same day the country celebrated its 250th birthday.

Seattle Center hosted 252 people from 55 countries as they were ...Read more

A Fourth of July celebration erupted into chaos in Newport Beach, leading to over 400 arrests by local law enforcement.

Officers were dispatched to the Newport Peninsula about 7 p.m. Saturday following reports that large crowds were lighting fireworks and fighting, per City News Service.

Digital footage obtained by The Times showed large ...Read more

More than 50,000 Baltimore Gas and Electric customers remained without power Sunday morning after severe storms rolled through the Baltimore area on Saturday.

BGE said crews are working to restore service to all customers by Tuesday at the latest but warned that additional storms and Sunday’s high heat could cause more outages. Roughly half ...Read more