Robotaxi pioneers Waymo and Tesla urged Congress Wednesday to set federal safety standards for self-driving cars, addressing the complication of differing state regulations and staying ahead of global competition.
Roughly half of all immigrant-headed households in the U.S. use welfare -- and among illegal immigrant homes in particular, it's even higher, at 61%, according to a new study Wednesday that argues that's another reason to enforce immigration laws.
Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system, according to new international polling from Gallup, a situation that sets the country apart from other rich and powerful nations.
The Winter Olympics are a land of snow and frozen water - no "ice," though, at least not at the hospitality house being hosted by U.S. sports teams in Milan for the Games.
Sen. John Cornyn's allies say the GOP's surprising loss in a recent state legislative special election is yet another sign that making Attorney General Ken Paxton the party's Senate nominee this fall is a gamble Republicans shouldn't take.
The last remaining nuclear arms pact between Russia and the United States is set to expire Thursday, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century.
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke over the phone Wednesday, their first conversation since November, as the White House and Beijing prepare for Mr. Trump's expected visit to China in April.
The embattled Washington Post began slashing newsroom staff Wednesday, eliminating its sports department and shrinking its local and international desks amid a sharp loss of subscribers under billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
Do you remember that high-speed rail project in California that was supposed to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco and be completed in 2020? Well, it’s finally ready to begin laying track on a much shorter section on a ludicrously bigger budget. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) proudly announced that the high-speed rail has entered the […]
George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an upward blip in birth rates […]
