If Trump closes any portion of the US-Mexico border, as he's threatening to do, it would cost US businesses billions, and would be, according to El Paso's mayor, "a critical killer to us, frankly."
Brexit remains in disarray after Parliament voted on four new proposals yesterday and was unable to agree on any of them.
Related: The economic damage of Brexit has already happened, as corporations move assets to Europe and scrap business plans in Britain.
Senior Trump administration officials granted security clearances to at least 25 individuals whose applications had been denied by career employees for “disqualifying issues” that could put national security at risk.
By violating due process in their rush to revoke trans rights, US courts are setting troubling precedents for all citizens.
NASA chief slams India's anti-satellite test, the debris from which placed the International Space Station and its astronauts in danger.
Harris's site misused the verb "gastar," which resulted in her saying she "wasted" her life defending US values. Leading Democrats use Google Translate for their error-ridden Spanish-language outreach pages. (Trump doesn't have one at all.)
A comedian who plays Ukraine's president on TV leads the country's presidential elections after the first round.
Researchers confused Tesla's autopilot feature by placing stickers into the opposite lane, which the car then steered into.
"All I’m saying is that it’s not inevitable." YouTube's product chief says its algorithm doesn't intentionally radicalize users.
Facebook's "Why am I seeing this post?" feature will reveal a tiny part of the News Feed's top-secret formula.
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“I’ve had a couple experiences where I was writing something and a lawyer and musicologist said, ‘It sounds like this old song, it’s a very active estate, they’re going to come after you.’ I changed a few notes.” Today’s popular-music machine is as much about songwriting as following legal precedent.
The Rolling Stones tour of North America, set to kick off this month, has been postponed so Mick Jagger can undergo heart valve replacement surgery.
Researchers can use data from online April Fool's pranks to better understand how people detect hoaxes and fake news.
The name on the book jacket, Danny Santiago, lent it authenticity, even though there was no accompanying author photo. The author was actually Daniel Lewis James, the son of a wealthy Kansas businessman who attended Andover and Yale. One hundred years of literary frauds.
Last updated in the early '90s, the term "healthy" will be redefined by the FDA to match new dietary recommendations.
Arkansas, the largest rice-producing state in the US, bans the marketing of "cauliflower rice" as "rice."
Those beautiful, vintage USDA-commissioned watercolors of fruits and nuts were originally created as horticultural patents.
“Boys are bigger bullshitters than girls, children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds tend to bullshit more than those from lower ones, and North Americans bullshit the most.” A study of 15-year-olds from Anglophone regions finds which demographic groups are the most likely to tell lies.
When combined with elevation data inside a 3D viewer, 18th-century maps of Scotland take on an astounding effect.