Day: February 5, 2026

Firefighters came to the rescue of a swan found stuck in a frozen Connecticut river this week

A new study out in the journal Science Advances finds that chronic exposure to wildfire smoke has contributed to tens of thousands of deaths each year in the United States

An Argentine judge has requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in...

Elon Musk is bringing the same revolutionary thinking that helped him upend the car industry to the data center business with promises this week to put up to a million new satellites in the sky

Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, a crewcut-wearing Indiana Democrat who was a leading foreign affairs voice during three decades in Congress, has died

NBC says that veteran Olympics broadcaster Mary Carillo will replace Savannah Guthrie as co-host of opening ceremonies for the Winter Games in Italy

President Donald Trump is taking steps toward installing a statue of Christopher Columbus near the White House

A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity has sued the school

Officials say emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a hospital in Pennsylvania as fire engulfed part of the facility

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the "Powerball" game were: 27-29-30-37-58, Powerball: 15