California is about to launch an experiment to cover aqueducts with solar panels, a plan that if scaled up might save billions of gallons of otherwise evaporated water while powering millions of homes.
Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world gather for events at the Vatican starting this weekend that could amount to a dress rehearsal for an eventual conclave to choose a successor to Pope Francis after he dies or resigns.
The IRS will forgive over $1.2 billion in late fees back to taxpayers who were impacted by the COVID pandemic.
A next-door neighbor, who is white, had called the cops after she only saw the back of Jennings' head and didn't recognize him.
The woman said she was listening to a podcast during the trip to work and didn't notice the man in the backseat.
"People can finally crawl out under that mountain of debt," Biden said Wednesday, adding that the move would provide more "breathing room" to working and middle-class families.
"The suspects ordered the victim to unlock his cell phone and then instructed him to transfer $6,000 to their account using an app," the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said.
Living in flimsy shelters made of wood and plastic tarp or half-finished concrete buildings, South Sudanese who have returned to Sudan are finding life tougher as their former country's economy tumbles.
The video showed the aircraft landing with its boom scraping along the runway.
The United States plans to roll out an updated COVID-19 booster vaccine to include Omicron subvariants of the coronavirus.
Vanessa Bryant's co-plaintiff, whose wife and daughter also died in the 2020 helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, was awarded $15 million.
Climate activists will stage a series of colorful protests at the Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole central banking conference that starts Thursday, intent on pressing the Fed to address climate change and move the U.S.
The autopsy report of Lori revealed an unmarred fragment of the mulberry leaf, often marketed for weight loss, was found in her stomach.
One person has reportedly been injured due to the flash flooding, but the extent of their injuries is unknown.
A Missouri school district will be using paddle students as a last resort for misbehavior and Twitter is heating up with debates on the issue.
A Pakistani court on Thursday extended former Prime Minister Imran Khan's pre-arrest bail for one week in a terrorism case over a speech, his lawyer said, shortly after the former premier appeared in court in person amidst tight security.
Thailand's new acting leader, Prawit Wongsuwan, represents little substantial change from suspended Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha for opposition forces seeking to end what they decry as military dominance of politics.
Two of five people shot outside a senior living building in Washington D.C. died on the scene.
The widow of the late basketball star Kobe Bryant was awarded $16 million by a jury on Wednesday over the sharing of photos of human remains at the helicopter crash site where her husband, their 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in 2020, according to multiple media reports.
The Uvalde, Texas, school board on Wednesday fired the school district's embattled police chief for his much-criticized handling of the shooting rampage that killed 19 children and two teachers in the city three months ago.
Mario Batali has settled two lawsuits with women who accused him of sexual assault.
Ghislaine Maxwell has failed to pay some $878,000 in fees to two lawyers who defended the now-convicted British socialite against criminal charges she helped Jeffrey Epstein abuse teenage girls, the lawyers' firm said in a new lawsuit.
China should not use a planned visit to Taiwan by Canadian lawmakers as pretext for either military or economic aggression, a spokesperson for Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Wednesday.
A 61-year-old postal worker from Melrose, Florida, was brutally attacked and killed by five dogs.
The Justice Department on Wednesday released under court order a 2019 memo in which two top officials advised then-Attorney General William Barr not to charge then-President Donald Trump with obstructing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.
A federal judge in Texas late on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden's administration from enforcing new guidance in the Republican-led state requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women regardless of state bans on the procedure.
U.S. President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday that the government will forgive $10,000 in student loans for many of the country's debt-saddled college-goers, sources say, a move that could boost support for Democrats in midterm elections, but may increase inflation as well.
Republican U.S. congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, an ally of former President Donald Trump, has sued the Justice Department in a bid to stop investigators from searching the contents of his cellphone after it was seized this month.
Celebrity chef Mario Batali has agreed to settle lawsuits by two women alleging he sexually assaulted them in separate encounters in Boston, one of whose accusations were the focus of a #MeToo-era criminal prosecution that ended in his acquittal.
U.S. President Joe Biden marked Ukraine's Independence Day on Wednesday with $3 billion in security assistance, Washington's largest aid package since Russia's invasion six months ago.