Lax vaccination and haphazard rules on masking sabotage the fight against the Delta variant in the U.S.

If you’re a member of the US military who's gotten friendly Facebook messages from private-sector recruiters for months on end, suggesting a lucrative future in the aerospace or defense contractor industry, Facebook may have some bad news.

Dennis Tamura never set out to be a bird-watcher. He’s been a farmer for over 35 years, and he and his wife grow organic vegetables and flowers on Blue Heron Farms outside Watsonville. But birds have become a part of the farm’s ecosystem. About 15 years ago, a bird-loving neighbor put up small wooden bird boxes on the fence posts that line Blue Heron Farms, and Tamura just started noticing the tree swallows and Western bluebirds that came to visit. Today, he points out a fluffy baby tree swa...

Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement on biodiversity loss.

Athought experiment, proposed with a grin by Dietmar Detering, a German entrepreneur living in New York: "What would the climate debate look like if all we had were fossil fuels and renewables, and suddenly someone said, 'I invented something, it's called nuclear energy.'"

The mind behind The Blacklist is stepping down. On the heels of a game-changing season 8 finale, series creator Jon Bokenkamp announced his departure from the NBC crime drama Thursday. His exit follows that of leading lady Megan Boone, whose character met her shocking end in Wednesday's episode.

The young couple posing in front of the faux Eiffel Tower at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas fit right in, two people in a sea of idealistic Democrats who had arrived in the city in February 2020 for a Democratic primary debate.

The Department of Labor released its weekly report on new jobless claims Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET.

Miles Gaston Villanueva, Sean Patrick Flannery, and Nick Wechsler are joining the cast of Amazon's subversive comic book show in season 3.

By now we've seen a bunch of intriguing iPhone 13 leaks. Here's everything we've heard (so far) about Apple's next phone lineup.

A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court Monday by seven former workers at Kim Kardashian’s Hidden Hills home alleges the reality star and beauty mogul violated California labor laws.

One of the enduring mysteries of Spygate is the identity of the person who reached out to the late Sen. Arlen Specter to coax him into dropping his Senate probe. Now Specter's son and ghostwriter have come forward with a name: Donald J. Trump.

Lindsay Lohan is set to make her long-awaited return to acting with a Netflix Christmas rom-com. The actor has been cast as the lead in the forthcoming film, which will see her play a newly-engaged, spoiled hotel heiress. According to Netflix, the plot will follow Lohan’s character as she “finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting total amnesia in a skiing accident”.

Like many restaurants, New York’s Dirt Candy was a different business before the pandemic. With a staff of 35, it served only a tasting menu (plus a half-dozen a la carte items available at the bar), guests leisurely eating courses of fennel tagine, seaweed caviar with creme fraiche, or beet yakitori. “The food [at] Dirt Candy doesn’t lend itself to delivery,” owner Amanda Cohen said in the spring of 2020, unsure when she’d be able to reopen. “We would’ve had to come up with a new menu."

The Crypto market has seen massive growth over the past few years. While the development results are positive, many experts have expressed their concerns about a potential ban from governments in the future and the post-ban effects it could have on the fast-growing crypto industry.

Swedish and German groups expect fuel to challenge diesel in long-distance freight.

The strange fate of a group of skiers in the Ural Mountains has generated endless speculation.