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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope has spotted 31 previously unknown quasars dating to the universe's earliest chapter, including the two oldest ever found. The discoveries, described July 6 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, more than double the number of known quasars f...

Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been sentenced to four years in prison

Elim Chan has been hired as the first female music director of the San Francisco Symphony

A Florida county sheriff's office says they arrested a former law enforcement officer whom federal authorities say planned a mass shooting targeting Black people at a large festival in New Orleans

A powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast Monday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue a tsunami alert in the region.

With the draft and free agency mostly wrapped up, teams will soon begin narrowing down their rosters

Crumble and custard was flung at the Crown Jewels' display case and manure was poured on the floor of hotel in December 2025.

The children, aged from one to 14 years old, were killed in a shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, which police are describing as a "domestic disturbance".

As Virginia voters are deciding whether to redraw their congressional map to try to give Democrats a 10-1 seat advantage, former Attorney General Eric Holder, who had once advocated against partisan gerrymandering, told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that Democrats "have to deal with this c...

Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as Surgeon General in the first Trump administration, praised the new nominee to head the CDC, Dr. Erica Schwartz, but warned that she will be "under real threat to follow ideology over evidence in what is a vaccine-skeptical HHS."

In this web exclusive, actors Ayo Edebiri ("The Bear") and Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda") talk with Tracy Smith about making their Broadway debuts in the revival of "Proof." They also discuss their love of live theater, and the early roles that inspired their passion for acting.