Transgender service members were given 30 to 60 days to leave the military under a new Pentagon policy, following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the ban to take effect.
Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the ascetic bachelor and New Hampshire Republican who became a darling of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench, has died. He was 85.
Congressional Republicans, who finally have the power to reduce massive federal spending, are paralyzed over how to make cuts and could instead scale back their plan to slash taxes.
The government's civil liberties watchdog gave a relatively clean bill of health to the TSA's use of facial recognition technology to screen travelers, saying it's strikingly effective and is largely immune to abuse.
President Trump says an 80% tariff "seems right," setting a potential guidepost ahead of weekend talks in Switzerland between the U.S. and Chinese sides.
Long before Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, Sir Humphry Davy, a British chemist and inventor, created the first incandescent light by passing an electric current through a thin strip of platinum. This produced an incandescent electric light to create the first “electric arc lamp” between charcoal electrodes. Like many early innovators, Davy is […]
“Pregnancy costs extra; it’s $90 per month.” This line from the latest season of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s Twilight Zone-inspired sci-fi anthology on Netflix, succinctly captures the show’s persistent knack for extrapolating unsettling trends in modern technology. Season 7, featuring a star-studded cast, including Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, and Awkwafina, grapples with everything from pesky subscription […]