In one day, 433 people won the Philippine lottery jackpot. What were the chances? On October 1, 2022, something strange ...

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In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords, our goal is simple: Tell the truth ...

According to a new national poll, approximately half of Americans now say crime is an “extremely” or “very” serious problem. This marks the second straight year national concern has declined. That ...

On Monday afternoon, Amazon confirmed that an outage affecting Amazon Web Services’ cloud hosting, which had impacted millions across the Internet, had been resolved. Popular apps like Snapchat, ...

“I want to live a life I’m not disturbed by.” It was an intense session with a new client, a 30-something single mother baffled by a long and winding trail of chaotic relationships—from partners whose ...

Five games into the new season, the Toronto Maple Leafs look a lot like they always do — talented, inconsistent, and occasionally brilliant. The team shuffled the deck again this summer, adding grit ...

You would think the big fanbase takeaway from a Survivor episode that prominently featured a castaway getting bitten by a snake would be about, well, that, but a couple days after the scary moment ...

Haitian children face intensifying problems of crime, hunger and homelessness as the country’s humanitarian crisis shows no signs of easing, a report from a U.N. agency found. By Frances Robles ...

I’ll never forget driving the Lucid Air for the first time. The larger-than-life vehicle took everyone by surprise with its impeccable build quality and driving experience. “It’s like driving a UFO,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, ...