WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump said Wednesday that her and the president's teenage son, Barron, tested positive for the coronavirus not long after his parents, but had no symptoms.

Pope Francis on Saturday urged people to pull investments from companies that are not committed to protecting the environment, adding his voice to calls for the economic model that emerges from the coronavirus pandemic to be a sustainable one.

Climate crisis and logging is leading to shift from canopy rainforest to open grassland

Fantasy author Terry Goodkind, who created the decades-long series The Sword of Truth, has died at 72 years old. He leaves behind an important but complicated legacy, as his personal views and attitude tended to collide with his work.

President Trump's message to the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, is now showing up on T-shirts.

Nearly 50 years ago, a power company received permission from North Carolina to build a reservoir by damming a creek near the coastal city of Wilmington. It would provide a source of steam to generate electricity and a place to cool hot water from an adjacent coal-fired plant.

In an appeal prominently featured in the national media yesterday, Stella Moris, the partner of Julian Assange and mother of his two young children, called on the Australian government to uphold its obligations to defend the WikiLeaks publisher, as an Australian citizen and journalist, take action to prevent his extradition to the US and secure his freedom.

Americans were starting to fall off the rolls of unemployment. But Thursday's claims report shows the drop-off hasn't just stalled out — the trend continues to reverse course.

In this follow-up to “Fear,” Woodward continues applying old-school theories and lines of questioning to a deeply unorthodox administration.

Researchers have developed and published a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Windows vulnerability that can allow access to an organization’s crown jewels—the Active Directory domain controllers that act as an all-powerful gatekeeper for all machines connected to a network.

SA-based Southern Launch begins rocket test program.

Sir David Attenborough returns to our screens this weekend with a landmark new production. The tone of the programme is very different from his usual work. For once Britain's favourite naturalist is not here to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on Earth but to issue us all with a stark warning. The one-hour film, Extinction: The Facts, will be broadcast on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 13 September at 20:00 BST.

Artificial Intelligence just made another big leap, this time in a rather peculiar manner by defeating an F-16 Fighter Jet pilot 5-0 in a dogfight. Yes, an AI pilot (an algorithm developed by the US-based company Heron Systems), with a just few months of training over computer simulations destroyed one of the US Air Force’s most seasoned pilots with years of experience on flying F-16 fighter jets, in a simulated fight that lasted for 5 rounds, with 5 perfect wins.

Tesla managed to prevent a recent attempt to infect its computer network with malicious software, says Elon Musk. Tesla employee cooperated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation towards catching the ones who are responsible for the attack. This malicious software would have created chaos in Tesla’s Gigafactory computer network by letting perpetrators extort ransom from the company.

People with great willpower are often lauded over their peers with less self-control. But having strong character may not always be a good thing. A few years ago, 80 Parisians were given the chance to take part in the pilot of a new gameshow, called La Zone Xtrême. The producer greeted each participant at the studio and told them that they would appear in pairs – one as a “questioner”, and one as the “contestant”.

Abe Demaag drove through downtown, watching people break windows and loot businesses, and he felt the sear of anguish all over again. His own furniture business had been burned down during the unrest that exploded after George Floyd died in police custody. Floyd’s death on May 25 sparked protests around the country and a national reckoning on racial inequality and police brutality...