Search

A person sits near a construction site of residential buildings by Chinese developer Country Garden, in Beijing, Aug. 11. Country Garden is facing major financial challenges.

China's economic woes keep getting worse. Here's why

China has seen a series of disappointing economic data this year. UBS' Tao Wang explains what went wrong with the anticipated recovery after China's tough COVID restrictions, and what could come next.

Rice's whales are one of the most recently discovered whale species in the world — and already one of the most endangered. But protections for the Gulf of Mexico species have been repeatedly delayed.

Only 51 of these U.S. whales remain. Little has been done to prevent their extinction

Rice's whales are one of the world's newly discovered whale species – and already one of the most endangered. Protections for the whales in the Gulf of Mexico are not coming fast.

Recovery participants gather in front of the community room behind Auntie Helen's thrift store in North Park on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. From left to right: Alexis Gabrielle, Julia Nava, RJ Santos, Heather Paetow, Michael Hoover and David Kozich.

Rising rents leave LGBTQ+ recovery groups searching for permanent home

Participants say meeting attendance dropped sharply after the Hillcrest recovery center was forced to close.

Smoky haze from wildfires in Canada obscures New York City's Empire State Building this year. The air in the U.S. has improved over the past 50 years, but smoke pollution from growing wildfires erodes much of that progress.

How wildfire smoke is erasing years of progress toward cleaning up America's air

A new study finds that smoke from massive wildfires has eroded about a quarter of the air quality gains from the last few decades.

Sirhan Sirhan is seen arriving for a parole hearing in August 2021 in San Diego. On Jan. 13, 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom blocked the parole recommendation for Sirhan, who killed Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

California board denies parole for RFK killer Sirhan Sirhan

The parole board decided the 78-year-old prisoner still lacks insight into what caused him to shoot the senator.

Workers picketing in front of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront on July 20, 2022.

Union representing Hilton San Diego Bayfront workers begins strike

Unite Here Local 30 has called for a walkout following negotiations with Hilton San Diego Bayfront Tuesday night.

John Blake's story is about growing up as a Black kid in West Baltimore in the 1980s and learning painful secrets about his family.

He saw the ghost of his racist grandfather. It helped lead to meaningful healing

John Blake's story is about growing up as a Black kid in West Baltimore in the 1980s, learning painful secrets about his white mother and, as he recalls, a ghost.

A rescue worker walks away from the destroyed five-star Hotel Saratoga on Tuesday after searching through the rubble days after a deadly explosion in Old Havana, Cuba.

The death toll rises to 43 after an explosion at a hotel in Cuba

Emergency workers continued to hunt through the ruins for the missing. Authorities have said they suspect the cause was a leak of gas as a tank truck was servicing the building.

A Kaiser Permanente worker holds a sign that reads "Patient care is in crisis" on a picket line outside the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Kearny Mesa, Oct. 4, 2023.

Kaiser reaches tentative deal with union workers

Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing thousands of health care workers have reached a tentative deal that could end the labor dispute that resulted in a three-day strike last week.

The welcome screen for the OpenAI ChatGPT app is displayed on a laptop screen in February in London.

Leading experts warn of a risk of extinction from AI

The AI programs we are creating could outsmart us and lead to our collective demise, according to the tech industry's leading experts who say it's time to address the threats they pose.

Search results for