The US federal government could soon spend more on interest for its debt then on the military, The New York Times reported. Interest payments are expected to make up 13% of the federal budget a decade from now, up from 6.6% in 2017. Tax cuts, spending increases and rising interest rates will make it more difficult to respond to future recessions or spend on other needs, the Times said.

The latest fatalities brought the statewide death toll to 31, after the Woolsey Fire in Southern California killed two people.

If you gauge the climate inside the Democratic Party merely by which candidates won its 2018 primaries, you might think reports of its leftward lurch are exaggerated. Despite the hoopla about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s and Ayanna Pressley’s upset victories in congressional races in New York and Massachusetts, not a single incumbent Democratic governor or senator lost a primary to a left-leaning challenger.

There is little more inspiring than when two legends unite for a worthwhile cause, and actor and ethical investor Leonardo DiCaprio and vegan primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall have done exactly that. The two passionate environmentalists have joined forces to launch a vegan clothing line to support ape conservation.

Union member and mill operator Joey Casey, 40, wasn’t getting paid for the day, so he enjoyed lunch at Thatcher’s BBQ on the main square in Trenton, Georgia. The day before, managers at the Caparo Bull Moose Tube Co plant told Casey, also the local union president, and those on his production line not to come in to work because of a malfunctioning part. Because the plant notified them with enough time, Casey and his colleagues won’t get paid until the part is fixed.

The GOP has become a vast repository of conspiracy theories, fake news, false accusations and paranoid fantasies.

The greatest horror titles are haunted by marauding monsters, eviscerating aliens and little girls in red coats. Steel yourself to meet some of the most chilling ghosts in the machine

In an earlier post, we had explored the possibility of the electric car company of Tesla accepting Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies as a way for customers to purchase the revolutionary eco-friendly vehicles. We had also observed that Bitcoin energy consumption had not been properly analyzed and compared to the entire spectrum of traditional banking and financial activities.

Halloween night can be a frightening time. Only a fool would dare leave the house and brave the inky black outside, teeming as it is with ghouls, goblins and all manner of undesirable. The safest move would be to stay in, where all a person has to worry about is whether that sound – there it is again! – is the washing machine or a murderer closing in on his prey. In that spirit, the Guardian has assembled a guide to the spookiest films produced and/or released by Netflix for those with a tas...

udith Campisi has been a leading figure in the biology of aging since the early 1990s, when her research on the basic mechanisms of cancer revealed an unexpected finding—that cells enter a phase known as senescence that prevents them from becoming cancerous. More than 25 years later, the insight has led to a new kind of drug that may slow or modestly reverse human aging.

In the course of Margaret Whelan’s conversations with homebuilders in Europe and Japan, she has noticed a difference between them and their American counterparts. “Everyone delivers houses in days, except here,” Whelan, CEO of Whelan Advisory, said at a recent conference in New York. The former JPMorgan managing director lamented that it often takes months, sometimes years, to build a house in the US.

Netflix's new horror series, "The Haunting of Hill House," is an instant hit with audiences, critics, and horror fans alike. The show has a 91% critic score on review-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, and a 93% audience score based on 785 user ratings. It's one of Netflix's best-reviewed shows of all time, and one of the best-reviewed shows of the year. Even Stephen King, the master horror author of classic novels like "The Shining," "It," and "Ca...

In the 2015 film Ex Machina, computer programmer Caleb Smith becomes romantically attracted to Ava, an artificially intelligent robot. Caleb believes that Ava is similarly attracted to him, and they plan her escape from the facility in which she is held. It is clear that Caleb thinks of Ava not only as highly intelligent but also as capable of emotional engagement with the world. But does she really like him? Could she like him? Could a robot ever experience the emotions that we typically think ...

The Pando aspen grove, located in central Utah, is the largest organism on the planet by weight. From the surface, it may look like a forest that spans more than 100 U.S. football fields, but each tree shares the exact same DNA and is connected to its clonal brethren through an elaborate underground root system. Although not quite as large in terms of area as the massive Armillaria gallica fungus in Michigan, Pando is much heavier, weighing in at more than 6 million kilograms.

The self-driving car crashes that usually make the news are, unsurprisingly, either big and smashy or new and curious. The Apple that got bumped while merging into traffic. The Waymo van that got t-boned. And of course, the Uber that hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Tempe, Arizona in March.

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is on the verge of being drawn into the rising political and diplomatic tensions with Saudi Arabia, putting its multimillion-dollar deal for live events in jeopardy. The Arab state is currently embroiled in an international crisis over the disappearance of Saudi national and United States resident Jamal Khashoggi.

The oldest flying squirrel fossil ever found has unearthed new insight on the origin and evolution of these airborne animals. Writing in the open-access journal eLife, researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) in Barcelona, Spain, described the 11.6-million-year-old fossil, which was discovered in Can Mata landfill, approximately 40 kilometers outside the city.

ISIS mastermind Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's youngest son has been killed in a Russian airstrike, it has been claimed. Baghdadi's son died in a bombing raid on a 'terrorist hideout' in a Syrian village on September 22, according to an Iraqi commander.

Not quite. Sure, blockchain is a technological breakthrough offering low transaction costs and unparalleled transparency. Not everyone understands, however, that on its own the technology is like an expensive watercolor paper in the hands of a 12-year-old trying his best to doodle. No matter how talented the kid may be, the venture is doomed from the beginning by the wrong choice of materials.