Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

Nations have made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution at talks that have concluded in Canada

The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged from a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland

The second of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has entered commercial operation

California is partnering with a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company to purchase a generic version of Narcan

Authorities said a missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a ship in the Red Sea in the latest assault in their campaign against shipping in the crucial maritime route

South Korea’s opposition leader has pressured President Yoon Suk Yeol to accept special investigations into allegations involving top officials and his wife, as they met for talks on bipartisan cooperation

For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has vowed to stay in office and govern “with even more strength."

It took almost a half century for Brazilian singer Cátia de França to find her audience, but she finally has — with the help of a near-obsolete audio technology

A data analysis shows Indonesia had a 27% increase in primary forest loss in 2023

More workplaces are bolstering their volunteer programs, especially as employee demands grow for socially responsible employers and engagement

Employees increasingly find that robust workplace volunteer programs meet their desires for in-person connections, professional growth and altruistically inclined employers — career objectives that might be missing in conventional corporate atmospheres

Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion

From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking both to the past and future to respond to climate change

The character performers at Disneyland in California have said they filed a petition for union recognition

Alejandro Fonseca stood in line for several hours outside a bank in Havana hoping to withdraw Cuban pesos from an ATM

An Oregon sports bar focusing on and showing only women's athletics has plans to expand across the country through a franchise model

Mississippi Senate leaders are saying for the first time that they are willing to expand Medicaid to the full level allowed under a federal law signed 14 years ago by then-President Barack Obama

Temporary farmworkers are getting more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment and other abuses

A bill to ban the use of confidentiality agreements when negotiating potential laws in California has failed to pass

President Joe Biden’s administration is again delaying a sweeping plan to ban menthol cigarettes

A judge ordered jurors Friday to keep deliberating after they said they were deadlocked in a lawsuit alleging a Virginia-based military contractor is liable for abuses suffered by inmates at the Abu Ghraib prion in Iraq two decades ago

The IRS says more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program

China’s vision of the future of the automobile — electrified and digitally connected — is on display at the ongoing Beijing auto show