The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves seeking digital assets.

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy.

The Czech government says China was “responsible” for cyberattacks on a communication network of its Foreign Ministry.

SpaceX has launched its Starship mega rocket again after back-to-back explosions.

Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades.

Japan plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima prefecture on flower beds outside Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s office.

An unusual May nor’easter is pulling away from New England after soaking the region and setting some record cold temperatures.

President Donald Trump is threatening a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well as a 25% tariff on smartphones unless the products are made in America.

The budget reconciliation bill passed by House Republicans early Thursday would gut clean energy tax credits that Democrats approved three years ago.

It’s not an official holiday – yet – but for many cryptocurrency enthusiasts “Bitcoin Pizza Day” is still special.

Microsoft has fired an employee who interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella to protest the company’s work supplying the Israeli military with technology used for the war in Gaza.

Jony Ive became renowned for a meticulous design aesthetic that shaped the cultural zeitgeist during a 27-year career at Apple, which he left in 2019.

The latest selfie by NASA's Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil.

New research finds clownfish shrink their bodies to survive warming oceans.

A White House official says the Trump administration is reviewing a list of recommendations to expand access to in vitro fertilization.

Google on Tuesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate a year-old makeover of its search engine that is changing the way people get information and curtailing the flow of internet traffic to websites.

Passengers on Southwest Airlines flights will soon be required to keep their portable chargers in plain sight while using them because of concerns about the growing number of lithium battery fires.

Elon Musk promised hundreds of thousands of self-driving Teslas will be on the road requiring no human intervention by the end of next year.

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President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul how U.S. elections are run includes a somewhat obscure reference to the way votes are counted.

More severe storms are expected to roll across the central U.S. this week following the weather-related deaths of more than two dozen people.

Morocco is expanding its efforts to humanely manage the millions of stray dogs that roam the country's streets.

Sweeping research cuts in President Donald Trump's proposed budget would target an ocean-monitoring system that scientists say is crucial to predicting tsunami escape routes and hurricane intensity and helping ships navigate dangerous harbors safely.

The Indian space agency’s mission to launch into orbit a new Earth observation satellite has failed after the launch vehicle encountered a technical issue during the third stage of flight.