President Donald Trump, in a brief phone call with POLITICO, cast himself as the savior for a United Nations in danger of financial collapse, touting his ability to get members to pay unpaid dues. But ...

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We've all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to "sleep on it." It turns out there may be more truth to this adage than previously thought. While stories abound of eureka moments surfacing ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has repeated his warnings about America’s debt. The tech billionaire has predicted that financial trouble is inevitable without the transformative effects of AI and robotics on the ...

Streets are drivable and certainly walkable, yet I haven't had home mail delivery since Jan. 27. Yes, it snowed. Yes, it's cold. Yes, winter happens every year. Given the amount of mail sent to my ...

NPR's Short Wave talks about babies' perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so long. It's time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The inflation rate is the rate at which the price of consumer goods is increasing. Source: Getty / Alvaro Gonzalez/Getty Images The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) this week lifted interest rates for ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. At the end of January, the Justice ...

Pictures appearing to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling on all fours over a female lying on the ground are part of the latest release of documents related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ...

An aerial view of Marathon Digital Holdings' bitcoin mine in Granbury, Texas, on May 21, 2024. An aerial view of Marathon Digital Holdings' bitcoin mine in Granbury, Texas, on May 21, 2024.Drone ...