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U.S. presses the ‘reset button' on technology that lets cars talk to each other

Safety advocates have long touted the potential of technology that lets vehicles communicate wirelessly. Now the Transportation Department is releasing a new plan that aims to speed up the rollout.

People gather to look at an artwork by street artist Banksy depicting two pelicans catching fish, painted on top of a fish-and-chips shop in Walthamstow, northeast London, on Aug. 9.

Banksy's back with surprise daily street art of animals across London

Banksy has been unveiling stencils and installations depicting animals at different spots around the city every day for more than a week, leaving fans and art critics guessing as to their meaning.

Ann Hamilton's KAHNOP: To Tell a Story is an 800 foot pathway made up of 20,000 pavers and each containing a word. Undated photo is from the installation of the public art piece to the Stuart Collection.

KAHNOP, a public art pathway of words, unfolds at UC San Diego

Ann Hamilton's 800-foot art installation welcomes students to UC San Diego with a story.

B-girl Raygun of Team Australia was targeted by haters and conspiracy theorists after she broke out a raft of unorthodox moves during the Breaking B-Girls competition at the Paris Olympics at the Place de la Concorde venue.

Raygun and Australian officials speak out against ‘hate’ over Olympic breaking

Not many early-round exits at the Olympics trigger conspiracy theories, fact-checkers, a week’s worth of memes and an online petition.

John Lansing, the steady CEO who led NPR through the pandemic's crises, dies at 67

Lansing tangled with titans, kept the network’s shows on the air even as its offices closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and steered NPR through what he defined as an “existential” financial crisis.

A teenage girl wearing a face mask, head scarf and long black robe, listens to a math teacher at a tutoring center in Kabul. The center was established by a women's rights activist to circumvent a Taliban ban on girls attending secondary school. The activist said she has informal permission by Taliban authorities to run the center as long as teenage girls abide by a strict dress code.

Many Afghan men believe in women's rights. But they're afraid to speak out

Men rarely speak out to protest the Taliban's stripping away of the rights of girls and women. A new study finds that many believe those lost rights should be restored.

"The Fine Cut" is a re-created barbershop poster that depicts two kinds of cuts — hairstyles of African-American men and ritual scarification of African faces.

'American African' identity is explored by U.S. artist with Ghanaian/Nigerian roots

The artist Africanus Okokon was born in the United States. His dad is Nigerian and his mom is Ghanaian. In his new exhibit, Okokon uses recycled and reclaimed objects to explore his American identity and his African roots.

This image provided by The Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows a team of researchers and science-minded snorkelers working together to recover a dead oarfish from La Jolla Cove, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024.

A rarely seen deep sea fish is found in California, and scientists want to know why

It's only the 20th time an oarfish is known to have washed up in California since 1901.

Shahana Akhtar, 26, directs traffic at a busy intersection in Dhaka, wearing her scout uniform to project authority. Akhtar supported the students’ movement to oust Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and hopes the new interim government will create more jobs. She says she’s never had a paid job.

After ousting Bangladesh's leader, Gen Z protesters are figuring out how to govern

They're out on the streets directing traffic and are taking part in Bangladesh's new interim government. Hopes are high — but there also are doubts about what they can realistically achieve.

Sculptures representing charred chimneys rising from the smoldering rubble of burned-out buildings make up the centennial memorial of the 1908 race riot, entitled <em>Acts of Intolerance</em> by Preston Jackson, on March 22, 2023, in Springfield, Ill.

Biden designates the site of 1908 Springfield, Ill., race riot as a national monument

In 1908, a white lynch mob of thousands terrorized a Black neighborhood in Springfield, Ill. The events were so horrific they led to the founding of the NAACP.

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