WASHINGTON — Freight rail companies and unions representing tens of thousands of workers reached a tentative agreement to avoid what would have been an economically damaging strike, after all-night talks…
I started walking around my neighborhood more. Compared with those wild places, this was unremarkable: pacing down a sidewalk of 10-year-old maples, across cracked squares of pavement, alongside a ditch…
When inflation began to accelerate in 2021, price pressures were clearly tied to the pandemic: Companies couldn’t produce cars, couches and computer games fast enough to keep up with demand…
About 30 other school districts in the area have since adopted solar, he said. Tish Tablan, program director at Generation180, said the normalization of solar was especially potent when it…
CAGLIARI, Sardinia — Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right leader of a party descended from post-Fascist roots and the favorite to become Italy’s next prime minister after elections this month, is known…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The tribal leaders arrived at the University of North Dakota last month for a somber, secret task. For three days, they scoured storage rooms, recited prayers…
The Webb telescope can look near as well as far. During its first year, about 7 percent of its time will be spent observing our own solar system, according to…
Many European countries and Canada, for example, did a better job of making sure more of their population got boosters. Their cumulative death and illness tolls from the Omicron wave…
The social media company backed by former President Donald J. Trump may not be able to count on a $1 billion deal it arranged to finance its upstart Truth Social…
Robert Newman had already sifted, sorted and sweated through untold mounds of paper — which to keep, which to sell, which to give away? — when he came to a…