HONOLULU (AP) — Muddy floodwaters from severe rains inundated streets, pushed homes off their foundations, swallowed vehicles and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of residents in towns north ...

Professor of International Relations, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto; USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences University of Toronto provides funding as ...

The "rogue" AI agent acting autonomously to nefarious ends receives a lot of attention but may not be the biggest AI risk for the economy. With AI model complexity reaching beyond human comprehension, ...

Early in my career, a mother came to my office to discuss her daughter’s calculus grade. When parents make this kind of request, I try to manage expectations by saying that as a school administrator, ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust was closed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, marking the first U.S. bank failure in 2026.

In advanced semiconductor manufacturing, even small defects can propagate across high-value wafers, enter high-volume supply chains, and surface months later as reliability failures or security ...

I like to remind people that they really do not have to worry about their electric-vehicle batteries. The vast, vast majority of all batteries survive until the car is crashed, mechanically totaled or ...

This activity was supported by Grant CMMI- 2135084 from the National Science Foundation to the National Academy of Sciences. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this ...

Americans are being failed by their government. As it stands, Congress will go home for the holidays without rescuing millions of people whose health insurance premiums will double or more next year.

Long-term use of melatonin supplements may be linked with a higher risk of heart failure, according to new research — but does that mean people taking it as a sleep aid should stop using it now? In a ...

A forensic report found that long-term neglect and failures by multiple parties – both state agencies and private contractors – led to the Washington Bridge's near-collapse in December 2023. The ...