A battery plant fire in California started during a boom for energy storage
A fire at one of the world’s largest battery plants in Northern California contained tens of thousands of lithium batteries ...
Timeline: Key dates in the century-long battle over the Equal Rights Amendment
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first ...
Yellen says Treasury will use ‘extraordinary measures’ on Jan. 21 to prevent hitting debt ceiling
In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the ...
Blessings for dogs? Bring them to Mexico City’s cathedral and St. Anthony will do the rest
Behaving at their best, a dozen dogs attended Mass at Mexico City’s cathedral Friday, waiting for their turn to de doused with holy water. The blessing of the animals is a ...
Israel prepares for hostages’ return with scant knowledge of their condition
Israel is preparing for the return of the hostages from Gaza with the expectation that many are likely to have severe, life-threatening complications after more than a year ...
Rapper Busta Rhymes accused of punching a man in the face in New York
Rapper Busta Rhymes has been accused of repeatedly punching another man in the face, police said Friday. Police said Rhymes, ...
Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters hit with a new ethics probe
After reporting Thursday night of State Superintendent Ryan Walters being investigated by the Ethics Commission for allegedly violating campaign finance rules, a second investigation is underway ...
TikTok refugees are pouring to Xiaohongshu. Here’s what you need to know about the RedNote app
As the fate of TikTok hangs in the balance, U.S. TikTok users are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, also ...
Daughter of one of the oldest Israeli hostages hopes for answers in ceasefire deal
Sharone Lifschitz is well aware that the odds are against her 84-year-old father. As one of the oldest hostages taken by ...
Homes were burning and roads already jammed when Pacific Palisades evacuation order came, AP finds
The first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn’t ...
For TikTok users, mourning, frustration and clinging to hope as TikTok ban looms
The U.S. is inching closer and closer to a potential TikTok ban — with the nation’s highest court upholding a law that’s set to halt new downloads of the app starting ...
Trump inauguration protests underscore how the Resistance has changed
Protesters are set to descend on Washington, D.C., on Saturday ahead of President-elect Trump’s inauguration, an event that ...