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Kids are used to being asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to temporarily restore access to the three media organizations banned from covering White House events last week by President Trump.

Venezuela's acting president, delivering her first address to the U.N.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was extremely concerned about OpenAI 's breach of an Australian health department website that the artificial intelligence company took too long to reveal.

Fears are growing of a return to war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, just four years after a devastating conflict ended in a fragile peace deal.

Southwestern Mexico braced for heavy rain and mudslides after Polo became a major hurricane.

Lawyers representing the White House and the three media outlets banned from the property sparred over the constitutional rights of journalists at a hearing in federal court Wednesday.

It is the second time the leaders are meeting this year after the Beijing summit in May.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the U.N.

Bishop Fulton Sheen, who charmed millions of television viewers on his show Life Is Worth Living,'will come one step closer to being declared a saint.

As President Trump and China's President Xi prepare to meet, Rush Doshi of the Council on Foreign Relations explains the current state of U.S.

Housing affordability challenges are spreading to higher income brackets, according to new research, which found one in five renters struggled last year to pay for their housing in full and on time.

For anyone who grew up staring blankly at museum artwork, this is the fun that was missing: Coco leads interactive and (mostly) factual art history comedy tours.

Building dams and hydropower plants in the Himalayas holds great promise for providing electricity.

An NPR poll shows that Democrats have an edge over Republicans going into the midterms, partially due to Trump.

Deals, threats and oil are all on the table as the president's foreign policy takes center stage.

Deals, threats and oil are all on the table as the president's foreign policy takes center stage.

The company Grail says its Galleri blood test can detect up to 50 forms of cancer.

The Department of Justice defended President Trump's recent media ban, arguing that reporting by CNN, MS Now and Politico on a wide range of issues jeopardized national security and spread falsehoods.

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are asking a federal judge to hold the president in check for what they say is a violation of their Constitutional rights simply because he doesn't like how they cover him.

Registered voters are less confident that USPS will deliver election mail on time compared with 2024, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds, after USPS was part of Trump's bid to limit mail voting.

Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities."

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds President Trump — and his unpopularity — is an outsize factor in why most voters say they want Democrats to win the midterms.

Critics say a slowdown of AI development among the largest companies could consolidate the power of frontier labs, just as many others are trying to catch up.

While Senate offices have access to chatbots like ChatGPT, they are not authorized to use any of the more advanced tools that are at the center of regulatory talks and public debate about AI safety.

Fears are growing that President Trump may deploy the U.S. military to polling places in the upcoming elections, despite strict state and federal laws against such a move.

Hurricane Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades, and it was expected to skirt Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm.

White House officials allege these individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program or do not exist.

The Black Mississippi teen's family questions whether his race contributed to his July 4th death on an island off the Mississippi coast.

The allegations claim Braden Peters, also known as Clavicular, had non-consensual sex with the 17-year-old female victim after plying her with alcohol.

Days after President Trump barred reporters from three major news outlets from the White House, the administration has launched a 24/7 YouTube channel promising to put its "biggest moments all in one place."

The future of Trump's D.C. arch was already fraught.

Wired's Andy Greenberg explains how a cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia trapped computer engineers into defrauding victims of billions of dollars.

Scientists have found a species they've named the fire amoeba, which is capable of reproducing at 145°F and continuing to move up to temperatures of 147°F — a record for complex eukaryotic life.

The Islamic State group-inspired attacks were among the deadliest in Sri Lanka's history, killing 42 foreigners.

CNN, MS NOW and Politico have sued Trump after the networks were suspended from the White House.

As the U.S. conflict with Iran drags, the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have opened a new front, taking new territory and displacing more than 100,000 people.

Jim Acosta has already been through a White House press-pass fight.

A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question.

OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.

The past couple of weeks have been particularly challenging for Trump with a series of legal and political setbacks.

The conservative House Freedom caucus grew in prominence along side President Trump, now they are considering what the future of their movement looks like.

'/> From Silent Hill: Townfall to Control Resonant to Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, we review the best new games to play as autumn begins, ahead of the titanic GTA6 release.

Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder.

Four states will vote on abortion-related ballot measures in November.

A grand jury found Wells' cause of death "consistent with drowning," and decided not to bring indictments.

A new book by the late Princess Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, has made headlines with damning allegations about King Charles III.

The fall equinox brings shorter days, and chances to snap photos showing the alignment between Earth and the sun.

The Federal Aviation Administration launched an ambitious $875-million-dollar push to make the U.S. airspace more efficient.

Paramount's owners have made concessions to 12 Democratic state attorneys general to settle a lawsuit that endangered the media company's bid for its larger Hollywood rival, Warner Bros.