1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (250+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2026. There are 109 days left in the year. On Sept. 13, 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (375+ words) Today is Saturday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2026. There are 110 days left in the year. On Sept. 12,1977, South African Black student leader and anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, 30, died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry. In 1857, the S.S. Central America (also…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (600+ words) California has long been farm country, and its oceans soon could be, too. State coastal officials voted Wednesday to allow a plan to build the United States’ largest kelp farm 6 miles (10 kilometers) off the Southern California coast to move forward…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (781+ words) By JOSEPH FREDERICK, DAVID R. MARTIN and LEAH WILLINGHAM Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared up at a gash in the north tower of the World Trade Center, smoke billowing from the building just blocks from her…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (311+ words) As he hosted finance ministers from rich and developing nations in the G20, Bessent on Tuesday announced U.S. sponsorship for a competition called the “Financial Literacy Solutions Sprint.” The competition is intended to discover and showcase “innovative technology- and data-enabled solutions” developed…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (478+ words) Carney said U.S.-Canada trade talks could resume if Washington became serious about negotiations, but he also accused the United States of pursuing terms that he said could leave Canadian industries “gradually wound down in Canada and wiped out.” “When the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (903+ words) As the crises deepen on the island, thieves recently stole the family’s horse and killed it for food, so the Barrosos now rely on a borrowed animal for transportation, because school buses aren’t running. Fuel, teachers and uniforms remain scarce…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (817+ words) By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JILL COLVIN With just over two months to go before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump is still sitting on most of his colossal war chest, and he’s been growing his money pile instead of spending…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (529+ words) By DAMIAN J. TROISE, AP Business Writer The S&P 500 index fell 0.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 348 points, or 0.7%, as of 9:51 a.m. Eastern time. The Nasdaq fell 0.3%. The losses were broad, with nearly every sector within the benchmark S&P 500 losing…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (823+ words) “The first thing that went through my mind was that I probably looked like I was trying way too hard and maybe seemed too uptight,” McEwen, a student at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, said. With virtual interviews and…...