The Thanksgiving travel period will see record-breaking numbers for those hitting both the roads and the skies, according to reports from several airlines and travel organizations. The American Automobile Association projected that 79.9 million tr...
Former President Donald Trump is projected to win the presidential race by ABC News, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in a frenzied contest to stage an improbable historic comeback. Trump ended up with at least 279 electoral votes after cl...
LOS ANGELES -- Waymo, the self-driving car division of Alphabet, first began offering its autonomous rideshare service on the streets of San Francisco earlier this year. Now the company is expanding, recently launching in Los Angeles. Waym...
WASHINGTON -- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced su...
Gen Z ditching 4-year colleges for trade schools, Wall Street Journal reports...
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Wham!, Sam Ryder and Mariah Carey are all vying for this year's Christmas number one, in one of the most open festive chart battles of recent years. Thursday is the final day for streams and sales to count before the Christmas chart is re...
The number of delegates at this year's UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say. Around 2,400 people connected to the coal, oil and gas industries have been registered f...
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The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels....
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A prolonged heatwave in the US has led to an uptick in severely burned patients who were injured after touching hot surfaces or objects. Medics in Arizona said some patients were hurt after falling onto asphalt which had been heated by th...
The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been targeted by further Russian air attacks, described by one official as "exceptional in density". Ukraine said all 18 missiles were shot down and footage showed air defences destroying targets o...
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On a day of political drama not seen in Congress for a century, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy repeatedly failed in his bid to be elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives. The House adjourned without a speaker on Tuesday night...
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Nancy Pelosi, who has led Democrats in the US House of Representatives for almost two decades, has announced she is standing down from the role. The 82-year-old is the most powerful Democrat in Congress and the first woman to serve as spe...
Record numbers of nurses are quitting the NHS in England, figures show. More than 40,000 have walked away from the NHS in the past year - one in nine of the workforce, an analysis by a health think tank revealed. It said many of these were often hi...
Driverless taxis, or “robotaxis”, have been rolled out on the streets of San Francisco, and BBC technology show Click has been to see how they work. The vehicles are capable of getting passengers from A to B across the city, but there is...
A look at the 15-year effort to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday, and the pushback against it....