A reform-minded mayor is taking over New York at a time of progress and stability for the NYPD

Zohran Mamdani is taking charge of New York City just as the largest police department in the country is finding its stride ...

Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for The Cure, dies at 65

Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died. He was 65.

She just became the first wheelchair user to travel to space

The first wheelchair user has blasted past the Kármán Line. Michi Benthaus traveled into space aboard Blue Origin’s NS-37 mission.

A Pompeii site reveals the recipe for Roman concrete. It contradicts a famous architect’s writings

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

December 18, 2025: Brown University shooting

Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in the Brown University mass shooting, was found dead tonight after taking his own life, Providence Chief of Police Oscar L. Perez, Jr. said. Follow for live news ...

Scientists used specialized equipment to dive into the ocean’s ‘twilight zone.’ They found creatures never seen before

Scientific divers have navigated a series of treacherous dives more than 330 feet deep in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of deep ocean reefs. They’re finding new species — and evidence of both cl ...

The amateur athletes spending thousands on endurance sport

It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that amateur triathlon attracts a wealthy demographic. A 2015 survey conducted for the World Triathlon Corporation found that the average household income for Ironman ...

Their husbands were killed by tigers. Now these women are restoring the big cat’s habitat

In the world’s largest mangrove forest, women whose husbands were killed by Bengal tigers are working to restore their habitat.

World heading toward ‘peak glacier extinction’ with up to 4,000 set to disappear a year

Thousands of glaciers have vanished over the past few decades and as the world continues to heat up, they are expected to disappear at an increasing pace. New research gives a glimpse of just how quic ...

China is building the world’s most powerful hydropower system deep in the Himalayas. It remains shrouded in secrecy

Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – ...

Brown University shooting suspect found dead, officials say

Claudio Valente, the suspect in the Brown University mass shooting, was found dead tonight after taking his own life, Providence Chief of Police Oscar L. Perez, Jr. said. Follow for live news updates.

Events leading to the killings of Brown University students and MIT professor spanned decades

The discovery of the body of Claudio Neves Valente in a New Hampshire storage facility Thursday night capped days of terror following two deadly shootings on major university campuses. But the story, ...