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When a mountain falls: How ice and rock triggered Nepal’s catastrophic flood – and why climate change is raising the risks
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...Read more
Trump keeps building his ballroom amid Supreme Court's silence
Construction on President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom shows no signs of slowing down. And the U.S. Supreme Court shows no signs of wanting to stop it.
More than a week has passed since Chief Justice John Roberts...Read more
California regulators rushed their decision on driverless trucks, Teamsters' lawsuit says
As self-driving vehicles spread across the country, a major California labor union is taking a stand against state regulators who say autonomous trucks are ready for the road.
Teamsters California sued the California ...Read more
How two deaths in a Pennsylvania measles outbreak led to a clash between Gov. Josh Shapiro and RFK Jr.
Gov. Josh Shapiro came to the Philadelphia suburbs on Friday morning to announce a new investment in a local police department. But the first question he fielded at a news conference concerned the growing confusion and ...Read more
What Meta's $17-billion settlement revealed about the harms of social media
After months of hype and mere hours in front of the jury, California's blockbuster suit against Meta ended on Wednesday with a sweeping $17-billion settlement and 130 pages of promised changes to the platforms.
Witnesses ...Read more
Death toll at 37 from Russian strike on warehouse near Kyiv
At least 37 people were killed in a village west of Kyiv when a warehouse detonated following a Russian drone strike, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed an investigation into why explosives had been stored in...Read more
At a Nepal hospital, hope slowly fades days after catastrophe
Days after Nepal’s worst natural disaster in a decade, Kathmandu’s biggest hospital was overrun — not with patients, but with families desperately looking for them.
On Saturday, Sukuntala Bhatta was one of those ...Read more
Cities turn to AI to speed housing permitting
New housing projects can sometimes stall out as a developer applies to city or county planning boards and goes through cycles of inspections, reviews and approvals.
Now, cities are increasingly turning to artificial ...Read more
NASA's new space telescope will aid hunt for 'Earth twins' and seek the fate of the universe
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 ...Read more
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