Saudi Arabia on Wednesday accused the Iran-backed Houthis of an attempted attack on Mecca, the holiest city in Islam and a site of pilgrimage for Muslims worldwide.
The health tech industry is booming, with services like telemedicine getting more popular, and more companies offering tools to monitor personal health at home. To identify the companies across the globe using digital technologies to make healthcare more effective and accessible,...
First your eyes start to burn. Then your throat tightens and your face gets hot. And then comes the realization that other people are watching you cry.
As data centers break ground in communities across the country, Americans are growing more concerned about the environmental impacts. That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University...
When was the last time you sat down with a good book? Over the last couple of decades, the number of Americans reading for pleasure has been steadily dropping, with one large study finding that only 16% of people read for pleasure. Trends elsewhere are similarly in decline; in th...
Jeff Bezos: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026 Time Magazine
When Hock Tan led an acquisition of Broadcom for $37 billion in 2016, the company was an icon of the dot-com era that had missed its chance to dominate mobile computing. Today, the empire he built around it is worth roughly $1.8 trillion, making it among the top ten most valuable...
Elon Musk: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026 Time Magazine
The federal government spent an estimated $9.5 billion paying employees to not work last year, with most of the cost tied to a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative to shrink the federal workforce, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Offic...
Like most Americans, I arrived at the election watch party on Nov. 4, 1980, expecting a long night. It was a little before 9:00 p.m. in Chicago. By 9:05 the television networks had called the election for Ronald Reagan and against Jimmy Carter. I was 24. The party’s host, a good ...
TIME and Statista have launched the 2026 list of Best Employers, based on independent employee surveys conducted in countries around the world. In India, Statista gathered 760,000 evaluations from employees across a wide range of sectors. These surveys asked open-ended questions ...
Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky lost the Republican primary for his seat on Tuesday to a challenger endorsed by President Donald Trump, Ed Gallrein, in a victory for Trump that underscores the strength of his influence over the party.
On the first day of 1942, Gilbert Roberts, a 41-year-old retired British naval officer turned game designer, arrived at Derby House, in Liverpool, for his inaugural meeting with his new boss, Sir Percy Noble.
Sue Ryan had been her husband’s sole caregiver for just under five years before her facade of keeping it all together first began to crack. It was a long time coming. She’d spent countless nights up late correcting mistakes in the household finances—a task her husband had handled...
The floods in Nepal and Tibet have been terrifying: some 1,386 people have died, and around 5,000 remain unaccounted for. The flood destroyed bridges, hydropower projects and entire towns. The scale of the loss is immense but in Nepal and Tibet, the contours of such a disaster ar...
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has moved to force a House vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, marking perhaps the most striking instance yet of a member of President Donald Trump’s own party publicly condemning one of his top Cabinet officials.
The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted to immediately close the lauded arts institution’s main building. President Donald Trump, who is its Chairman, announced the decision on Truth Social.
As the New York Knicks mounted one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, erasing a 20-point fourth-quarter deficit in Game 4 of the NBA Finals in June against the San Antonio Spurs, Knicks reserve guard Jose Alvarado refused to overthink the moment.