Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. When Dominique Thornhill tried to get a loan to launch a child-care ...

The growth of the unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. appears to be slowing for the first time in decades. But Texas still has the second-highest share of the population in the country.

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell couple came home from vacation to an unsettling surprise — a four-foot python hiding under their deck. “I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and I look over, and it’s right ...

The NYPD welcomed nearly 1,100 new recruits to its police academy on Wednesday — the largest Finest-in-training contingent sworn in by the department in nearly a decade. The 1,093-strong class is the ...

A Dallas-based, Wall Street-traded firm owns 3,397 rental homes in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the company. Invitation Homes, a publicly traded real estate investment trust, confirmed the ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --Texas House Democrats returned to Austin for a second special session after fleeing the state to block a redistricting effort by Republicans and Gov. Greg Abbott. More than 50 Texas ...

The contract, which will award nearly $2 billion to construction firms, funds crucial aspects of the latest phase of the long-awaited subway expansion into East Harlem. By Taylor Robinson Transit ...

A couple weeks ago, I wrote in my box office column about how Marvel Studios has been dealing with a persistent second weekend problem since 2021. Marvel Cinematic Universe features continue to be ...

Taylor Stanberry, a Naples native, won the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, removing 60 Burmese pythons. The annual competition aims to control the invasive python population in Florida. This is the ...

Crimson Desert is one of those games that keeps falling out of the videogame filing cabinet in my brain, and then every so often I'll remember it exists and say to myself "Hmm, I wonder what's going ...

More than 900 people participated in the 2025 Python Challenge, a 10-day snake hunt in South Florida. The catches were monumental this year with 294 pythons captured — the most in the contest's ...