On a Friday afternoon in Washington, D.C., Yu Miao was busy preparing the first floor of his bookstore for a public lecture — an event that would be illegal in ...

UMass Amherst researchers will soon start tracking sleep patterns among people already at risk of Alzheimer's as a way to flag early signs of the disease. UMass biomedical engineer Joyita Dutta, lead ...

Vermont’s largest taxidermy collection needs a new home. The owners of the more than 600 stuffed birds and animals lost the lease on the building where the specimens have been on display in Marlboro, ...

The Department of Justice is suing the owner and operator of the container ship Dali, saying negligence and dangerous cost-cutting decisions led to the ship ramming into — and destroying — Baltimore’s ...

“Hi Helen!” sing out a dozen Helen Ropers gathered at a bar called Sidetracks in Ypsilanti, Mich. They are mostly Gen X women, resplendent in colorful caftans, red curly wigs and clunky 1970s-style ...

PULWAMA, India — Men and women filed into gender-segregated lines, huddling in shawls early Wednesday morning in this Himalayan territory. Many prepared to do something that they’d never done before: ...

The Federal Reserve moved aggressively Wednesday to start cutting interest rates, as its single-minded focus on fighting inflation gives way to a growing interest in protecting the job market. The ...

America's relationship with work has been tenuous lately. Remember the wave of quiet quitting in 2022? In surveys over the past couple of years, Gallup researchers have found only about a third of U.S ...

For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S. "This is exciting," said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On ...

The nation’s largest offshore wind energy project is not easy to get a good look at. Vineyard Wind is 15 miles off Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The project is still under construction, but began ...

Tupperware, the brand synonymous with food storage in American homes, has filed for bankruptcy after years of struggling with its business model and debt. The brand wrote itself into American culture ...

A baby pygmy hippopotamus in a Thailand zoo has quickly become a worldwide internet sensation after the zoo began posting videos of her. But zoo officials say the increased attention has led to bad ...