The first "Friday the 13th" of the year is here and so comes the dread. But why? Here's what to know about the significance of the number 13 and it's meaning. The number 13 in and of itself, has long ...

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

Anti-government protests have erupted across all 31 of Iran’s provinces in a wave of unrest that marks the biggest challenge to the regime in years. An ongoing communications shutdown, which experts ...

Though post-apocalyptic stories have become an expectation in the film and TV industry, Vice Gilligan‘s 2025 sci-fi, Pluribus, pushes the boundaries. Set in his favorite setting, Albuquerque, New ...

More local officials than ever say in a new survey that political polarization is having a negative impact nationally, with those in larger communities seeing greater local effects — findings that ...

As is the case for many young Americans, Ashley Terrell says her parents always had the expectation that she'd go to college and land a job in her chosen profession. More than a year after graduating, ...

There’s a raging debate in markets about the sustainability of today’s high stock valuations. On the bearish end are investors like Jeremy Grantham and Michael Burry, who are famous for having spotted ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a testament to humanity's ever-expanding cosmic reach, and a great example of multiple countries playing nice together. Developed as a joint effort between the ...

A Michigan education official is under fire after her response to a Republican state representative asking her how many genders there are went viral. Michigan Chief Deputy Superintendent Dr. Sue ...

When developers Masoud and Stephanie Shojaee dined out recently, they headed to the members-only section of MILA restaurant in Miami Beach, Fla., where they were whisked to a table already bearing ...

Born in the Prohibition-era, speakeasy bars rely on secrecy and nostalgia, beginning with hidden or disguised entrances—think alley doors, down basement hallways, or tucked behind a curtain, bookshelf ...

But there are signs that greenhouse gas pollution in China might be slowing, according to a new analysis. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Belém, Brazil Global fossil fuel emissions are on track to soar ...