Wind phones got their start in Japan when a garden designer named Itaru Sasaki built one in 2010. After a natural disaster ...

After voters swung toward Republican Donald Trump during last fall’s presidential election, states like Virginia and New ...

China has undertaken a massive expansion of sites linked to missile production since 2020, bolstering its ability to potentially deter the US military and assert its dominance in the region, a new CNN ...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will defend a narrow majority in the November 2026 elections a year from now ...

Homes in U.S. neighborhoods with large Black or minority populations once marked as undesirable for loans are in greater ...

Virginia and New Jersey, as they have in modern times, hold gubernatorial elections the November after a presidential inauguration. While those races remain important, it's a California ballot measure ...

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China has significantly expanded its mock Taipei government buildings at the Zhurihe Training Base, tripling its size since 2020. This includes replicas of key institutions and a symbolic tunnel, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

Find all stories in the OPB series “Labor Day fires: Five years later” here. Starting Labor Day weekend 2020, wildfires charred Oregon’s land, choked the air, and cost the state hundreds of millions ...

Five years ago this week, a devastating wind storm called a derecho blasted across Iowa and several other states, causing catastrophic damage to structures, crops and trees. The Iowa Department of ...