timef 05/07/2026

A gradual dimming and brightening when a star passed behind it suggested the mini-Pluto was wrapped in a thin layer of air.

The oil giant’s earnings in the first three months of the year were more than double the previous quarter’s and follow similarly strong results of European rivals.

The popular prediction market platform has just raised a new funding round that values it at $22 billion, double what it was worth in December.

The platform for betting on sports, politics, the weather and more has raised $1 billion and sees big financial firms as a key source of growth.

Fallout from the war in Iran didn’t dampen quarterly results at McDonald’s, Burger King and Taco Bell.

Google’s A.I. search technology is far from perfect (don’t count on it for celebrity news), but it excels at tasks like picking out groceries and detecting scams.

A California couple rushed through Heathrow to catch their connecting flight, arriving with minutes to spare. But British Airways had already given away their seats.

The health agency has been particularly strict in abolishing at-home work, overriding accommodations that were granted years before the pandemic.

More miles of the country’s rivers were reconnected last year thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history.

The Ministry of Awe, a new immersive experience in a former bank in Philadelphia, aims to help locate the wondrous in the everyday.

After a crush of promises in 2016 that autonomous cars would soon rule the road, companies whose tech underpinned them have shifted to other industries, like managing shipyards and city traffic.

In the final stages of his dementia, a long-lost memory from childhood returned, perfectly formed. What was going on in his brain?

Investors waited for news on the situation in the Middle East, as the U.S. and Iran gave mixed signals on peace negotiations.

The war in Iran has left China’s neighbors appealing for help, handing Beijing the kind of sway it has long sought.

Bond investors are expected to scrutinize the results of critical local elections on Thursday as the war in the Middle East adds inflation pressure on the government.

The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.

The bank offered $1 million before a former employee filed a lawsuit against a woman who was an executive director on his team, two people briefed on the matter said.

Shivon Zilis worked closely with Elon Musk while she was on OpenAI’s board of directors. Her ties to the world’s richest man were detailed in a landmark trial on Wednesday.

Gabi, the newest monk at a temple in Seoul, vowed to not overcharge as it seeks enlightenment.

The commerce secretary appeared for hours in a closed-door session on Wednesday with the House Oversight Committee

Investors questioned Ryan Cohen’s latest gambit after he gave an evasive CNBC interview and a once-loyal supporter sold his GameStop shares.

U.S. Central Command and the ship’s owner disagreed on whether the vessel coordinated safe passage with the United States military.

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ecosystem collapse could unfold.

He began practicing sports psychology before it was a profession, teaching athletes the importance of mental resilience and how to cultivate it.

The CNN founder’s death was met with encomiums from leaders in the media industry, which he helped reinvent. “He will be remembered for generations,” said one.

People with lower incomes are driving less and devoting more of their budgets to transport as gas prices soar.

Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found might change how we study both species.