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Leonard Riggio, then chairman of Barnes & Noble, arrives at a bookstore in New York on Sept. 12, 2017. Riggio died on Tuesday.

Leonard Riggio, who built Barnes & Noble into a bookselling empire, dies at 83

Leonard Riggio transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.

At antisemitism hearing, Columbia official tells lawmakers, 'We have a moral crisis'

Columbia University officials answered lawmaker questions about antisemitism on campus. But Wednesday's hearing played out very differently from the 2023 hearing that grabbed so many headlines.

Olivia Reeves, of the U.S.A., performs a snatch during the women's weightlifting 71kg on Friday at the South Paris Arena during the Paris Summer Olympics. She won the U.S.'s first weightlifting gold in 24 years.

Olivia Reeves wins first U.S. weightlifting Olympic gold medal in 24 years

U.S. weightlifter Olivia Reeves won a gold medal in her Olympic debut. She lifted a total of 262 kilograms, or roughly 577 pounds to bring home the U.S.'s first weightlifting gold since 2000.

Two years after Dobbs; militants attack in southern Russia

Deadly attacks reported in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan. Abortions are up two years since the Supreme Court revoked federal abortion protections.

Students play during recess at Perkins K-8 in San Diego on January 25, 2024.

For the first time, California law will protect students’ right to recess

Experts say free play time has lasting benefits, particularly for young people’s mental health.

Dr. David Morens, a former top adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, appears during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing on Capitol Hill.

As Republicans probe COVID’s origins, some see an attack on science; others say it’s long overdue

Hearings have turned up embarrassing emails and problems with grants, but evidence of a larger cover-up is lacking.

This combination image, created from two photos provided by NASA, shows Jupiter in 2017 (left) and Mars in 2003. From Earth, the two planets will appear to be almost touching later this week.

Mars and Jupiter pair up this week in a celestial dance unseen from Earth in years

The encounter is an out-of-this-world example of right place, right time — as Mars zips past Jupiter, Earth will be in the perfect spot to see the two planets look as if they are within arm's reach.

Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, made 12 misleading or lacking-in-context statements during her speech at the Democratic National Convention last week.

12 misleading or lacking-in-context claims from Harris’ DNC speech

They range from characterizations of former President Trump’s stances on abortion rights and Social Security to her plans to address housing and grocery prices.

When Australia's black flying foxes are well-fed, they tend to be healthy. A lack of food stresses the bats — and stress causes them to shed, or release, viruses into the environment.

How do we halt the next pandemic? Be kind to critters like bats, says a new paper

A team of scientists argue that new vaccines and treatments wouldn't be critical if humans could figure out how to stop viruses from spilling over from animals in the first place.

The palms of a patient with mpox during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox — with a strain that is deadlier than the one that sparked the global outbreak in 2022.

Major mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a worry to disease docs

With a dramatic jump in cases — and a strain of mpox that is deadlier than the virus that went global in 2022 — specialists are scrambling to rein it in.

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