Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, hoping to find bipartisan resolution that has so far eluded them as government workers have gone unpaid, airlines have been forced to...
What to know about the flight cancellations at US airports caused by the government shutdown
Hundreds of flights at the busiest airports in the U.S. are being scratched this weekend
Voters’ anger over high electricity bills and data centers loom over 2026 midterms
Voter anger over rising electricity costs is shaping next year's midterm elections
Some states are requiring gun safety lessons in schools that teach kids ‘stop, don’t touch’
Along with stop, drop and roll, some states are teaching students to 'Stop and don't touch that gun.'
People in some states get SNAP food aid while others still wait for their November benefits
People in some U.S. states have started receiving their November SNAP benefits after delays caused by a legal battle over the government shutdown
Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches
Country’s top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreak Canada’s food inspection agency says it plans to begin a “complete depopulation” of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country’s top court declined to block the controversial cull. On...
‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth
Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help It was early morning on 1 January last year when Colin McGarva dived into a flooding river in Worcester to rescue an unconscious woman. McGarva said he didn’t think twice about the...
James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97
Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to his former research lab....
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to...
Lawyers for Stephen Bryant make final appeal over brain damage to stop South Carolina execution
Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are trying to stop his execution later this month