U.S. stock indexes are tiptoeing around their record levels as a busy week for Wall Street picks up momentum
Anchorage warns hikers after 2 bear attacks in a week
Officials in Alaska are warning hikers to steer clear of streams and rivers where salmon are running after bears mauled hikers on two different occasions within a week in Anchorage
UCLA reaches $6 million settlement with Jewish students and professor over campus protests
The University of California, Los Angeles, has reached a $6 million settlement with three Jewish students and a Jewish professor who filed a lawsuit alleging UCLA violated their civil rights
Officials work to unravel how and why gunman carried out deadly attack on NYC office building
Investigators are piecing together more details about how a former high school football player who blamed the game for his mental health problems carried out a deadly attack on an office building that is home to the NFL
Massachusetts man sentenced to 26 months for attacking a flight attendant with a broken spoon
A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for attempting to stab a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon
Crews struggle to contain wildfire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
Historically dry and windy conditions are making it harder for crews to contain a wildfire burning along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
NYC gunman targeted NFL over alleged brain injury, mayor says
The gunman who killed four people and then himself at a Manhattan office building on Monday was targeting NFL offices, NYC Mayor Eric Adams said. Adams, speaking Tuesday, said authorities “have reason to believe that he was focused on the NFL,” which has offices in the building where the shooting...
Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops. But, the...
Climate change has sent coffee prices soaring. Trump’s tariffs will send them higher.
Eight years ago, when Debbie Wei Mullin founded her company Copper Cow, she wanted to bring Vietnamese coffee into the mainstream. Vietnam, the world’s second-largest exporter of coffee, is known for growing robusta beans. Earthier and more bitter than the arabica beans grown in Brazil, Colombia, and other coffee-growing regions near...
Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how.
Over the last six months, Americans have been inundated with a near-constant stream of announcements from the federal government — programs shuttered, funding cut, jobs eliminated, and regulations gutted. President Donald Trump and his administration are executing a systematic dismantling of the environmental, economic, and scientific systems that underpin our...