The Seattle LGBTQ Commission has petitioned the city’s mayor, Democratic Socialist Katie Wilson, to declare a civil state of emergency to accommodate the massive influx of LGBTQ+ people. More ...

A San Francisco company paid nearly $1 million for the solution to an unsolved code in Kryptos, a sculpture on the C.I.A.

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On 1776, Virginia unanimously proclaimed the Virginia Declaration of Rights—the first official declaration of individual liberties in the ...

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — ...

Seven years ago, on an early afternoon in February 2019, Donald Trump performed one of the least newsworthy acts of his first term: He endorsed John Cornyn for reelection to the U.S. Senate. The ...

Recent U.S. messaging suggests the administration is trying to frame the Iran war in a way that allows it to step back while still claiming success. Reuters reported in April that U.S. intelligence ...

An F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz while operating in the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 5, 2025. (MCS2 Tomas R. Valdes/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy ...

The NBA announced that 71 players initially filed as early entry candidates for the 2026 NBA Draft. The list is headlined by a loaded true freshman class that includes BYU's AJ Dybantsa, Kansas' ...

Over the span of a few days, public health officials went from announcing a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 15 and Uganda to declaring it an international public health ...