specious ˈspiʃəs adjective 1. plausible but false 2. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing The word specious has appeared in 32...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who angered supporters of his Make America Healthy Again movement last week by backing...

Today marks four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, no one thought the war would last this...

A group of internal investigators at the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance made a series of startling discoveries last year. People...

President Trump, promoting a secure border and defending his administration’s hard-line immigration agenda, told the families of people killed by...

A wave of violence hit Mexico after a government raid on Sunday killed the longtime leader of one of its...

In Rhode Island, the whiteout snowfall on Monday shattered records and overwhelmed even local snowplows, which were called off the...

Amid intense pressure from the Trump administration, Pentagon officials have summoned the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic...

​​Surely it wasn’t all Richard Baker’s fault. Saks Global, the department store group behind Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and...

Camp Mystic, the all-girls camp in Central Texas, devoted one brief paragraph to floods in its one-page emergency plan submitted...

Shasta Townsend, a Canadian who helps foreigners relocate to the Mexican tourist magnet Puerto Vallarta, was driving into the city...

For 13 years, Maribel McBeath has cleaned plane cabins at the airport in Charlotte, N.C. She earns $16.50 an hour,...

The longevity influencer Peter Attia has resigned from his position as a contributor to CBS News after backlash over the...

If you’re planning to shovel snow, be careful. While the snow from the season’s previous storms was light, easily lofted...

A wave of violence in Mexico linked to the killing of a top drug-cartel boss has erupted in several cities...