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April 13, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

From ancient star streams to the innards of white dwarfs, the Gaia space telescope has seen it all.

April 13, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Iran and the U.S. held “positive” and “constructive” talks in Oman on Saturday and agreed to reconvene next week, both sides said, a dialogue meant to address Tehran&rs...

April 13, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

JERUSALEM — When Yona Schnitzer, a marketing writer from Tel Aviv, Israel, attended the traditional Passover Seder meal last year, he said a special prayer for the return of all the host...

April 13, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Ukraine is seeking solutions to repair the damage caused by a Russian drone attack to the confinement vessel at the stricken Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a government minister said on Saturd...

April 13, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Several thousand Hungarians mocked right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s moves to ban the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ groups, dressed in grey and carrying banners ironically denounci...

April 12, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

HONG KONG — China on Friday said it was raising its tariffs on American goods to 125%, retaliating for the third time in the escalating trade war between the two superpowers.

April 12, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Iran said on Friday it was giving high-level nuclear talks with the United States on Saturday “a genuine chance”, after President Donald Trump threatened bombing if discussions fai...

April 12, 2025 | 10 MIN READ

Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were allowed into the country under Preside...

April 12, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in St. Petersburg about the search for a peace deal on Ukraine as Trump told...

April 12, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian delegation was in Washington on Friday for a new round of talks about a deal that would give the United States a major stake in Ukraine’s natural resour...

April 12, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

President Donald Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated as president, was visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a physical Friday, the first of his new administration....

April 12, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Amid the turmoil over global trade, countries around the world reached a remarkable, though modest, agreement Friday to reduce the climate pollution that comes from shipping those goods worldw...

April 11, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

(Reuters) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it plans to replace animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs with “huma...

April 12, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

In Washington state, April is when millions of young Chinook salmon are released from hatcheries, where they started as tiny, pink globes, to swim downstream and rebuild the salmon population....

April 12, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Trump administration officials are recommending the elimination of the scientific research division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to internal documents obta...

April 12, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate’s intelligence committee on Thursday said he suspected a task force formed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was pursuing a “wi...