Former U.S. President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to earn a new four-year term as the country's leader. Trump secured at least 277 of the 538 available electoral votes in Tuesday's election. In the U.S. system, the presidential...
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making a final push for votes on the day before Election Day in the United States. Harris is spending the day in the state of Pennsylvania, looking to win its 19 Electoral College vot...
Canadian Olivier Rioux is the world's tallest teenager. At 2.4 meters tall, he has a place in the Guinness World Records as the world's tallest living teenager. Soon, he will make basketball history when he plays for the University of Florida. Known...
Japanese ramen restaurants are famous for providing high-quality food at a reasonable price. But continuing inflation -particularly affecting food products and fuel - is making it difficult for ramen sellers to keep costs down. One of those owners is...
A rare dime bought by an Ohio farm family in the 1970s was recently sold for just over $500,000. In 1975, the United States Mint in San Francisco produced the coin, which has a face value of one-tenth of one U.S. dollar. A mint is where a government...
The United States said on Wednesday that it had seen evidence of North Korean troops in Russia. And South Korean intelligence officials told lawmakers that about 3,000 soldiers had been sent to support Russia's war against Ukraine. Speaking in Rome,...
While emotional goodbyes are common at airports, one airport in New Zealand is not having any of it. Travelers at New Zealand's Dunedin Airport have a new three-minute limit to say goodbye at the airport's drop off area. The goal is to prevent traffi...
Illegal gold mining operations in Ghana have reportedly increased in recent years. The activities present dangerous risks to the individuals involved as well as environmental harms. The Reuters news agency recently reported on the issue. Reporters wi...
The Nobel Committee has brought attention to worldwide inequalities by awarding its economic prize to three Americans: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. The Nobel committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three w...
Some American communities and universities have been experimenting with sheep and goats to keep plant growth under control. Along the Cumberland River near Nashville, Tennessee, visitors on boats watch the large buildings of the city in the distance....
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. The Nobel committee said it wishes to honor all survivors...
Powerful crime groups in Southeast Asia use the messaging app Telegram widely, the United Nations said in a report on Monday. It said the app's use led to major changes in the way such groups carry out large criminal operations. The U.N. Office on Dr...
Edgar Tapia works on the Homeless Outreach Team of San Francisco, California. He goes to places where people are living in the streets and tells them there is space for them in city shelters. He recently went into one San Francisco neighborhood on th...
Fields of tall corn plants are a common thing to see in the Midwest United States in late summer. They are as much a part of rural America as big red barns and cows. But soon, tall corn plants might become shorter, replaced by plants only half as tal...
Elections officials across Pennsylvania have begun testing their voting machines using a method known as logic and accuracy testing. It will be important to know how the machines will perform under the pressure of the hard use they will experience du...
