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Russia has launched its first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years, racing to land on the lunar south pole before a spacecraft from India gets there. (August 11)

Safety regulators are investigating a fatal crash in Virginia involving a Tesla suspected of running on a partially automated driving system.

The Arizona missing-persons case involving a father and son took a new turn when detectives found two bodies and a wounded Dalton Holvig Thursday..

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Thousands of rubber ducks race in Chicago River for annual fundraiser

The search of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui is revealing a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities as firefighters battle the stubborn blaze that has already claimed 36 lives. Whole sections of the historic town…

Peruvian Lenin Tamayo grew up listening to the Andean music his mother sang in Spanish and Quechua, South America’s most widely spoken Indigenous language. As a teenager, K-Pop served as a haven from bullying at school in Lima. The community he found i…

High school seniors are remembering their childhoods by going back to school with kindergarten backpacks, continuing a post-pandemic trend.

Dozens are dead and major landmarks have been lost amid wildfires on Maui, Trump’s Twitter account info turned over to Special Counsel: 5 Things podcast

The fires first began Tuesday and have spread since, leaving at least 36 people dead, hundreds of structures burned and thousands without power.