Muslims begin Hajj in sweltering heat against a backdrop of war
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — The annual Hajj pilgrimage, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, officially began Monday. More than 1.5 million...
Trump posts image saying Obama ’caused this war to happen’: ‘Don’t forget who funded Iran’
Donald Trump on Monday shared a post on Truth Social blaming former President Barack Obama for the United States’ ongoing...
Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits
The complaint Donald Sauve submitted in Minnesota last year was a familiar type in the nation’s federal courts. In legal...
The economist who wrote the book on sports finance has a number for FIFA’s World Cup haul: $15 billion
At soccer’s World Cup, the top scorer gets the “golden boot,” and the best goalkeeper is handed the “golden gloves.”...
Trump puts his Middle Eastern allies to the test
President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum Monday via Truth Social to nearly a dozen Muslim-majority nations, threatening exclusion from his...
New Waterside Retreats for Those Lazy Days of Summer
It’s that time of year when thoughts turn to sunny, lazy days by the water. Whether you are longing for...
I visited the ‘Hawaii of the Atlantic,’ an island chain only 5 hours from Boston. It felt like an unspoiled paradise.
The Azores are an archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic. Leonsbox/Getty ImagesI recently visited the Azores for...
Rice feeds more than half the world. It’s also the climate equivalent of 239 million cars
Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India,...
What is the deadly Ebola Bundibugyo variant — and do Americans need to worry about it coming to the US?
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo’s Ituri province has nearly 600 suspected cases and over 100 deaths, with several Americans...
Still Out of Sight, Tom Kean Jr. Calls Allies to Ease Doubts Amid Absence
Representative Thomas Kean Jr. has checked in. Republican officials in New Jersey said their phones suddenly began buzzing late last...
