Spear points, hammer stones and picks lost to history under layers of leaves, roots and rocks it was the evidence Scott Ashcraft was looking for. The ancient tools were inadvertently unearthed in 2021 by a bulldozer fighting a wildfire along a steep slope in western North Carolina. Ashcraft, a career U.S. Forest Service archaeologist, knew these wooded mountainsides held more clu...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) criticized President-elect Trump's decision to tap environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), claiming it will set the U.S. back more than 200 years. You have a baby, and anywhere in the world, I mean, protecting against polio, against measles, against very...

Firmly established as one of Europes biggest dedicated showcases for movies from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival celebrates its 50th edition with a bang, with a high-caliber main Competition, a new showcase on Spain. Following, some highlights and trends at this years festival, which runs Nov. 15-23. Paz Vega: A Director […]

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Europe’s economy has left stagnation behind but is headed for only modest growth in coming months as consumers regain some of the purchasing power they lost to inflation, the European Union’s executive commission said Friday. The bloc’s economy remains at risk from protectionist moves by major trading partners, the report said. U.S. presi...

President-elect Donald Trump taps RFK Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services. Here's why experts are worried. And, how the U.S. bond market could upend Trump's economic plans.

Friday's Google Doodle celebrates Native American Month by spotlighting the history of the kayak 5,000 years ago.

Former Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo a Democrat who is facing the end of her tenure as U.S. Commerce secretary due to Donald Trumps victory last week is […]

Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inboxhere. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the past 24 hours. Heres todays news: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION AND NEW CONGRESS President-elect Trump yesterday said he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Public health experts […]The post

The most powerful levers of control in the United States government are found in the six positions where intelligence-gathering and brute force overlap the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secret...

The party continues to operate in an overcredentialied fever dream in the face of an America becoming ever more red in tooth and claw

The American left was sent spinning in 2016 and is yet to recalibrate

Tropical Storm Sara as it crept closer to the coast of Honduras and Belize is expected to cause life-threatening flooding and mudslides in Central America this week.

The results of last week's U.S. elections were cataclysmic for the Democratic Party, which lost control of the White House and Senate as the Republicans gained a trifecta, but economic j...

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who will be Maryland's senior senator in January, knows this is "a precarious moment for the country" and he and other Democrats are ready to "fight for people's rights."

With 46 U.S. cases and alarming signs of the virus crossing species, experts warn of unpredictable risks if human-to-human transmission were to emerge.