World Gunmen Attack Afghan Intelligence Center in Kabul

Gunmen have launched an attack on a training center on the grounds of Afghanistan’s intelligence service in the capital, Kabul. Officials say the gunmen are holed up in a building near the...

World Afghanistan revises death toll from suicide bombing to 34

The Afghan authorities have revised the death toll from the previous day’s horrific suicide bombing in a Shite area of Kabul to 34 killed, not 48.

World The Latest: Gunmen besiege Afghan intel compound in Kabul

The Latest on developments in Afghanistan after a deadly suicide bombing in a Shiite area of Kabul (all times local):

World Hong Kong Independence Speech Draws Warnings

Officials in the Chinese capital, Beijing, and in Hong Kong have issued a string of warnings after a journalists’ association broadcast a speech by an advocate for the city’s independence. The...

World China, US to Resume Trade Talks This Month

A Chinese delegation will travel to the United States later this month to resume negotiations as a trade war intensifies between the world’s two biggest economies. China’s Commerce Ministry says...

World New City Rising in Senegal Aims to Ease Capital's Congestion

What can a country do when its capital city becomes so crowded it is almost unlivable? One possibility: Build a new city. That is what Senegal is doing, with Diamniadio, an urban project a short...

Science Cancer drugs may help the liver recover from common...

Experimental anticancer drugs may help the liver recover after acetaminophen poisoning.

Science Children may be especially vulnerable to peer pressure...

Elementary school children often endorsed unanimous but inaccurate judgments made by small groups of robots.

Science Astronaut Alexander Gerst Captures ‘Mind-Blowing’ Aurora...

Ever wondered what auroras look like from space? Astronaut Alexander Gerst, also known as @Astro_Alex, gives us his bird’s-eye view from aboard the International Space Station,...

Science Viruses may help phytoplankton make clouds — by tearing...

Sick phytoplankton shed their calcium carbonate plates more easily than their healthy counterparts, which could play a role in forming clouds.

Science As waters rise, coastal megacities like Mumbai face...

For coastal megacities like Mumbai, rising seas and weather chaos linked with climate change threaten economic and social disaster.

Science Why sea level rise varies from place to place

The impact of global sea level rise varies regionally, thanks to these factors.

Technology Google expands bug bounty program beyond security...

Elite hackers aren't the only thing Google has to worry about when it comes to its platforms. Perhaps just as pernicious are simple abuses of its systems and products — often stumbled...

Technology TensorFlow 2.0 announced with a new focus on usability,...

Most of our audience is at least familiar with seeing the name TensorFlow appear in our coverage. For the uninitiated, Tensor Flow is a machine learning framework/library created by Google...

Technology 'Lazy loading' feature to speed up browsing now available...

Web pages are becoming more and more complex, but browser vendors have been hard at work trying to offset that with performance and caching improvements. For example, Service Workers allow...

Technology The Play Store on phones gains the option to set network...

The Play Store has long warned about the dangers of downloading large apps and games over mobile data. Just one big download can wreck your capped data plan. Now, the Play Store appears to...

Technology Project Fi shutting down text forwarding on September 12

A sad bit news hit Project Fi users' emails today. Google's MVNO service is shutting down text forwarding on September 12. While I'm sure not everyone on the carrier uses this feature, I...

Technology Google is making Wear OS app quality guidelines mandatory

If you've been a Wear OS user for a while, odds are you've noticed that wearable apps in the Play Store are sometimes not very good. Google is looking to change that, and asking nicely...

Green Companies Have Bought More Clean Energy Than Ever This...

Our government is firmly controlled by fossil fuel interests that have turned federal climate action into a pipe dream. Thankfully, a scrappy band of multi-billion dollar corporations are...

Green Fracking Uses a Lot More Water Than It Did 5 Years Ago

Public concern over hydraulic fracturing (better known as fracking) has often focused on the potential for this extractive process to pollute waterways. Well, a new study reminds us that fracking...

Green Climate Change Is Cooking the Oceans

Heat waves aren’t just for land lubbers. Climate change has turned the oceans into cauldrons of scalding water, upending marine ecosystems around the world. Read more...

Green The Dakota Access Pipeline Wants to Ship Even More Oil...

As if the original Dakota Access Pipeline didn’t cause enough drama, its developer now wants to expand the crude oil pipeline, which is still pending a new federal environmental review. Read...

Green Why Is Florida's Red Tide Outbreak So Bad Right Now?

It’s been a summer of algae for the Sunshine State. Last month, Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in counties whose waterways were befouled by blue-green algae blooms. On...

Green Conversion Shop Does Neat Tesla-Audi Change

At one time about 750 years ago, a bunch of guys called alchemists tried to turn lead into gold. That they didn't know anything about periodic tables and metals related to lead didn't...

Politics Trump revokes security clearance of former CIA chief Brennan

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday followed through on threats to strip the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan, igniting a firestorm of criticism that the...

Politics The Point: The Democratic wave is growing

With Labor Day rapidly approaching, one thing is becoming clear: All signs point to the Democratic wave growing rather than shrinking in the final weeks of the 2018 election....

Politics An expert on Trump’s threat to revoke clearances: it’ll...

The president revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan on Wednesday. President Donald Trump revoked former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance on...

Politics Vox Sentences: A suicide bomber attacks an Afghan school

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Politics Trump revokes John Brennan’s security clearance for...

The former CIA director went on TV and Twitter to criticize the president on Tuesday. President Donald Trump has revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan,...

Religion FFRF partners with Black Skeptics of LA to award $10,000...

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is giving $10,000 in scholarship awards to four students in partnership with Black Skeptics of Los Angeles, an African-American atheist community group....

Religion A Tale of Two Rallies? Two (Slightly) Different Responses...

Part I This weekend, the American Humanist Association was a visible presence at the Still Here, Still Strong rally, joining thousands of people at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, and...

Religion Project Blitz targets schoolchildren with godly agenda

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is warning that at least eight state legislatures are promoting or even forcing display of a religious motto in public schools. As a captive audience of...

Religion The Comics Section: Apophatic Theology & Caustic Agents

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Religion FFRF protects constitutional rights in Indiana elementary...

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has convinced an Indiana elementary school to refrain from holding a teacher-led religious club. FFRF sent a letter to Evansville Vanderburgh School...

Religion The Comics Section: Shooting Stars, Calling the Whole...

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