3+ hour, 45+ min ago   (164+ words) Indonesian rescuers launched a search operation Sunday after a passenger ship carrying at least 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea while traveling from East Java to South Kalimantan on Borneo island, officials said. The Search and Rescue Office in…...

6+ hour, 32+ min ago   (594+ words) Russian strikes killed eight civilians and wounded dozens of other people in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukraine would amount to direct conflict with Russia. Ukraine is under mounting…...

13+ hour, 35+ min ago   (665+ words) The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic’s chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still…...

16+ hour, 13+ min ago   (791+ words) Iraq’s government raced Saturday to contain the fallout after Iran-backed militias were accused of attacking a key Saudi oil pipeline, shutting down the top global oil producer's alternative to the Iranian-threatened Strait of Hormuz. Related video above: Record diesel prices…...

19+ hour, 21+ min ago   (892+ words) Telltale wrinkles that cover Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, suggest it was once a larger world that has shrunk in size — and it may be shrinking more than scientists realized. Related video above: New images of the sun…...

20+ hour, 24+ min ago   (558+ words) In a victory for President Donald Trump, the Justice Department announced Friday that it secured a first-of-its-kind deportation through the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a secretive tribunal that had never been used before the administration activated it this summer. Related…...

21+ hour, 6+ min ago   (765+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump held talks Saturday in Dublin with his Irish counterpart Catherine Connolly during a weekend visit that is more about a major golf tournament hosted on a course he owns on the country's Atlantic coast. He also met…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (187+ words) North Korea launched ballistic missiles toward the sea on Saturday, its neighbors said, a day after the U.S., South Korea and Japan ended their trilateral military drill that North Korea views as a security threat. South Korea’s military said it detected…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (320+ words) A Greenville County nursing home evacuated 41 people overnight after a ceiling collapsed onto patient beds, flooding the affected unit with dirty water. Reedy River Post Acute in Berea announced all residents were safe and accounted for on Thursday morning, relocated…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (359+ words) President Donald Trump said oil prices will likely fall after the midterm elections, citing the ongoing war with Iran as a factor behind rising costs. President Donald Trump said oil prices likely won't come down until after the midterm elections,…...