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New York Yankees infielder Luke Voit, left, and outfielder Aaron Hicks talk outside the batting cage during a spring training baseball workout, Sunday, March 13, 2022, in Tampa, Fla.

Voit traded by Yanks to Padres for minor league pitcher

Voit, a 31-year-old right-handed hitter with power, led the major leagues with 22 home runs during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season when he hit .277 with 52 RBIs.

Downtown Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall in 2018. Storms like Florence, with both heavy rain and very high tides, are projected to get more common as the Earth gets hotter.

A new study predicts a huge increase in catastrophic hurricanes for the northeastern U.S.

When hurricanes cause both extreme high tides and heavy rains, devastating floods ensue. Such storms will get much more frequent by the end of the century, according to a new study.

President Bill Clinton holds up his hands indicating no more questions as he and Chinese President Jiang Zemin hold a joint press conference in 1997 in Washington, D.C. Clinton confirmed that he agreed to lift a ban on the export of nuclear power technology to China.

What 3 past Taiwan Strait crises can teach us about U.S.-China tensions today

Both the U.S. and China stepped up military activity in the region ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit. Here's what is different now from crises in the Taiwan Strait decades ago.

Montana banned TikTok. Whatever comes next could affect the app's fate in the U.S.

The ban will go into effect Jan. 1, 2024, but many questions, including how it will be carried out and whether it is even legal, are swirling.

President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State University, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, in Dover, Del. A U.S. judge in Texas on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2022, blocked Biden's plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness.

A federal judge calls student loan relief unlawful, deepening limbo for borrowers

The program to erase student loan debts for millions of borrowers hit a brick wall Thursday when it was blocked by a U.S. District Court judge. The administration quickly appealed the decision.

Matthew Decker discovered this ax with a root for a handle in his front yard.

Kansas man finds a mythical-looking ax with a root for a handle in his front yard

Kansas man discovers a peculiar ax with a root for a handle in his front yard.

The war in Ukraine is disrupting the world's supply of neon

A growing shortage for neon is driving up its prices by 5000%. Neon production became highly concentrated in post-Soviet states, such as Ukraine and Russia. The world is paying for that concentration.

Migrants grieve in front at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on Tuesday.

39 migrants are dead, 29 injured after a fire at an immigration facility in Mexico

At least 39 migrants are dead following a fire Monday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the U.S. border. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the migrants started the fire out of despair.

President Biden directed the intelligence agencies to look for evidence of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (pictured). Many scientists still think its more likely the virus came form the wild.

Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature

President Biden told U.S. intel agencies to investigate whether the coronavirus spread after a lab leak in China. Scientists welcome the request, but many still think it came from the wild.

A person skates in front of new construction on 30th Street in San Diego's North Park neighborhood, Nov. 29, 2022.

Why is San Diego falling so far behind on housing? Here are a few reasons

How to fix San Diego’s housing shortage is a problem that has dogged city leaders for years. Identifying systemic issues, the city’s independent budget analyst has offered a roadmap to create more housing.

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