NASCAR returned to the Chase championship format this season and adjusted the scoring structure to place a greater emphasis on winning races. Drivers can now earn significantly more points for ...

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...

In February 2026, after the U.S. Department of Justice released millions of files from its investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a claim (archived) circulated online that Attorney ...

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The state is in a standoff with the federal government over who has the power to investigate the killing of protesters. It’s not a fair fight. Federal agents confronting protesters in Minneapolis, ...

America’s judicial system is undergoing one of its most consequential stress tests as President Trump pushes the limits of executive power and strains the system of checks and balances. A year into ...

A petition to impeach President Donald Trump is gaining traction as he himself echoes the fears of a third impeachment in a warning to his Republican party about the need to win the 2026 midterms or ...

Nearly one-quarter of Americans say the country’s health care system is in crisis, with 29 percent citing high costs as the most urgent problem with national health, according to a new Gallup poll ...

New York State is changing its point system for drivers in 2026, affecting driver’s licenses and potentially car insurance. According to WHEC and WHAM, the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles’ new rules ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying itself, melting large portions of our planet’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later pulled ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...