Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under scrutiny
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he wasn’t in the room for any additional strikes on a boat suspected of carrying illegal drugs in international waters on Sept. 2.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he wasn’t in the room for any additional strikes on a boat suspected of carrying illegal drugs in international waters on Sept. 2.




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A new survey of centenarians finds a growing proportion of those living to 100 have prioritized healthy habits.
A planned meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a U.S. delegation led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner is off after the pair's talks in Russia earlier this week ended...
Michael and Susan Dell announced on Wednesday that they'll give $250 to 25 million children, in investment accounts.
When he found himself living alone in the North Carolina woods, he returned to the piano, his first instrument, working through loss, grief, and the promise of new possibilities.
The tech company Anthropic’s AI technology was used by Chinese-backed hackers trying to breach foreign governments and major corporations.
A researcher at Columbia University has been pondering a question: How can we keep younger public health workers on the job?
Matt Van Epps only beat his liberal challenger by 9 points, in a district that President Trump won by 22 points last year.
As social media users flee X for other platforms, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram continue to dominate our attention spans.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 70,000 Palestinians have died since the war between Israel and Hamas began. And since then, Jewish Americans here have become increasingly critical of Israel.

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