Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on proposals to build a six-mile sea wall around New York, urging instead the city’s residents to use “mops and buckets” to cope with climate change related disasters. The US president, who has previously claimed global warming is a "hoax" invented by the China, branded plans for a sea wall in his hometown “costly, foolish and environmentally unfriendly” on Twitter on Saturday night.

Usually Meals on Wheels means home delivery or lunch at a senior center. For more than 50 years, the federal government has been funding the program to make sure older Americans get the nutrition they need. Now, a project in Vancouver, Wash., is trying to use those funds for something new: a retro-hip diner, where seniors can get eggs, coffee, and community.

A team of Canadian astronomers have played a key role in locating a second fast radio burst, a crucial step in identifying what causes these mysterious signals from outside Earth's galaxy.

America’s most widely consumed oil, soybean oil, linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice. New University of California Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression.

Since the 19th century, the average human body temperature in the United States has dropped, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. “Our temperature’s not what people think it is,” said Julie Parsonnet, MD, professor of medicine and of health research and policy. “What everybody grew up learning, which is that our normal temperature is 98.6, is wrong.”

The actor Derek Fowlds, best known for starring in Yes Minister, has died at the age of 82. Fowlds played the private secretary Bernard Woolley in the BBC sitcom – a satire of British politics – between 1980 to 1984. He also starred in its sequel, Yes Prime Minister, opposite Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington from 1986 to 1988, and later played Oscar Blaketon in the long-running ITV police drama Heartbeat.

A mid-Michigan man found more than $43,000 in cash hidden in a couch he bought from a secondhand store, and though he had no apparent legal obligation to do so, he decided to return the money to the family who donated the item. Ovid resident Howard Kirby recently bought a set of furniture for $70 from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Owosso. After the couch spent a few weeks in his “man cave,” he started to think something was off.

Group's online chats were often racist and anti-Semitic.

The new year is not even three full weeks old, and already half a trillion dollars has been added to the S&P 500′s value. Some investors worry either the economy has to suddenly jolt into action or earnings have to surprisingly surge — two things unlikely to occur — in order to justify these kinds of gains.

Some of the biggest companies in the world are funding climate misinformation by advertising on YouTube, according to a study from activist group Avaaz. The group found that more than 100 brands had adverts running on YouTube videos on the site that were actively promoting climate misinformation. The brands, including Samsung, L’Oreal and Decathlon, were unaware that their adverts were being played before and during the videos.

A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.

The Trump administration on Friday announced plans to roll back school lunch standards on vegetables and fruits originally promoted by Michelle Obama, unveiling the proposal on the former first lady's birthday.

Federal prosecutors say some parents accused in the college scam are withholding evidence despite requests to hand it in.

A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969...

Two parents who fought the Church of England over a mandatory religious worship session in their local school have come out victorious.

Lawrence Lessig tried to defend an ousted MIT administrator who accepted the disgraced financier’s cash. Now he’s going after the paper of record.

Rich Americans are getting richer, poor Americans are getting poorer, and middle-class Americans don’t really care much either way. A survey released today, conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health, interviewed a sample of 1,885 nationally representative adults to gauge their experiences and thoughts on income inequality.

There are tools to crack into the phones at the center of a new dispute over encryption. But the F.BI. says it still needs Apple’s aide.

At one point, university officials had wanted to approve Epstein donations of up to $10 million.

The fragility of global internet structure has left the entire Red Sea region struggling to connect.