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This illustration photo shows an Apple Watch 9 displaying the blood-oxygen level detection settings, in Los Angeles, on Tuesday.

U.S. appeals court grants Apple's request to pause smartwatch import ban

The stay temporarily halts an import ban on some watches as Apple appeals a U.S. International Trade Commission ruling that it infringed on the patents of medical technology company Masimo.

People watch as the night sky is illuminated caused by the eruption of a volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland seen from the capital city of Reykjavik on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.

A volcano in Iceland erupts weeks after thousands were evacuated from a nearby town

Police evacuated Grindavik in November after strong seismic activity in the area damaged homes and raised fears of an imminent eruption. Officials said magma could continue in that direction.

5 takeaways from the New Hampshire primary

Donald Trump beat Nikki Haley in the Republican primary Tuesday night. It's hard to see another chance for Haley to get ahead, but she is vowing to keep fighting and is looking toward South Carolina.

San Diego police officer John Cochran is photographed in downtown San Diego on March 31, 2023. Officer Cochran is speaking out against anti-black racism that he says plagues the police department.

Longtime officer says ‘culture of anti-Black racism’ plagues San Diego police force

Officer John Cochran says he has faced discrimination and retaliation during his 28 years in the department.

A dry lakebed at the Salton Sea in this March 16, 2021, photo.

Federal government makes largest investment in Salton Sea mitigation efforts yet

State officials say $72 million from the Biden administration is the first major federal funding to address harmful impacts as the Salton Sea recedes.

Customers sit in the outdoor seating area of the Starbucks on University Avenue in Hillcrest, June 30, 2023.

Lost hours, safety concerns prompt Hillcrest Starbucks workers to unionize

Employees said the store's management has shown little sympathy as electrical failures have caused unsafe working conditions and loss of income.

Among the flowers left at the alleyway where more than 150 people were killed in a crowd crush, a poster references the time — 6:34 p.m. — when police received the first call warning of the dangerous crowd size, about four hours before the crush turned deadly.

A Seoul police officer, under investigation after the crowd crush, is found dead

The 55-year-old intelligence officer, identified only by his surname Jeong, had been accused of destroying evidence that police knew of the risk but took few measures to control the massive crowd.

10 years later, the 'Beyoncé' surprise drop still offers lessons about control

On Dec. 13, 2013, Beyoncé fans got a holiday gift no one expected. A decade later, the artistic and economic impact of her fifth album is still reverberating.

Dr. Carl Shy, a public health researcher, cooks on his electric stove at his home. In 1970, he published a study showing that families exposed to greater levels of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide outdoors had higher rates of respiratory illness than families in less-polluted areas.

How gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations

Gas stoves emit potentially harmful pollutants, but utilities and their trade group avoided regulation with tactics perfected by the tobacco industry to cast doubt on science showing health problems.

Cormac McCarthy attends the New York premiere of <em>The Road</em>, the film adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, in 2009.

Cormac McCarthy, American novelist of the stark and dark, dies at 89

The author of The Road, Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men embodied a strong Southwestern sensibility, writing often about men grappling with the existence of evil.

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