Sweeping blackouts in Cuba raise the question: Why has the island’s solar buildout been so slow?
Cuba’s large-scale blackouts that left 10 million people without power this month may not have happened if the government had ...
Tim Walz, wife and son vote early in Minnesota
The Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, his wife, Gwen, and their son, Gus, went to a polling place in St. Paul on a crip fall Wednesday morning ...
A hurricane’s historic destruction hasn’t stopped North Carolina election workers and voters
About three weeks after Hurricane Helene pummeled western North Carolina, the Hot Springs Community Center was still caked in mud. A paper sign hung on the door warning ...
‘Conclave’ and Ralph Fiennes go for the (papal) throne
Robert Harris had just completed a trilogy of novels about Cicero when he watched the election of Pope Benedict live on ...
Washington Commanders rookie QB Jayden Daniels misses practice because of his rib injury
Washington Commanders rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels is not practicing Wednesday because of a rib injury, coach Dan Quinn said. Daniels is listed as week to week and his ...
Virginia woman found guilty of murder in 2022 Morgantown shooting
A jury in Monongalia County found a woman guilty of shooting and killing a man in 2022. Tracey Hamby, 49 of Suffolk, Virginia ...
Tim Burton talks about his dread of AI as an exhibition of his work opens in London
The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits – all on display at an exhibition that is opening in London just in time for Halloween.
McDonald’s tries to reassure customers after deadly E. coli outbreak
McDonald’s said Wednesday that customers should feel confident ordering from its restaurants despite a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to its Quarter Pounders. McDonald’s U.S. President Joe ...
Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, father of influential liberation theology, has died
Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the ...
Wisconsin sees high turnout on the first day of in-person absentee voting
More than 97,000 people in Wisconsin cast absentee ballots in person on the first day they could, leading to long waits at some polling sites that were made worse by an ...
Washington Mystics part ways with coach Eric Thibault and GM Mike Thibault
The Washington Mystics are parting ways with coach Eric Thibault and general manager Mike Thibault, the franchise announced Wednesday. Eric Thibault is the fifth WNBA coach to be let go this ...