Water hauling is the new chore no rancher asked for Posted August 25, 2026 Mark Ragsdale's phone rings off the hook with neighbors asking the same question: Where can I find water? During the day, he works as the state's water commissioner for Norwood…
Conflicts and energy shocks threaten progress against global hunger, UN agency head warns Posted August 24, 2026 Conflicts and disruptions to global energy markets could push millions more people into hunger by driving up fuel, fertilizer, and food costs, th…
Mount Olympus, home of the ancient Greek gods, vies for World Heritage status Posted August 23, 2026 Snow-capped for much of the year, Mount Olympus, mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, has captured the imagination through the millennia. Risin…
FBI chief holds talks in Cambodia over closer security cooperation to combat online scam crimes Posted August 22, 2026 FBI Director Kash Patel held talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on joint efforts to combat international online scam operations that cheat victims out of billions of do…
OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ hack of another company Posted August 21, 2026 ChatGPT maker OpenAI said that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber inc…
Virginia study on groundwater, data centers calls for tighter water regulations Posted August 20, 2026 Virginia, the world’s largest data center hub, has released a long-delayed study that examined the state’s eastern region groundwater supply and the resource-hungry industry’s pos…
Why Britain is getting a new prime minister without a general election Posted August 19, 2026 Veteran Labour Party politician and popular former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham became Britain’s prime minister in July, formally taking over from Keir Starmer, who annou…
Wildfire smoke kills tens of thousands of people a year Posted August 18, 2026 Smoke from wildfires—which are burning more of the Northern Hemisphere as Earth warms—attacks nearly every system in the human body, killing tens of thousands of people a year, nu…
Slumping AI stocks drag down markets around the world Posted August 17, 2026 Drops for computer chipmakers and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom dragged down stock markets worldwide. The S&P 500 fell 0.5%, even though more stocks ros…
EU forces Google to share search data and open Android to rival AI companies Posted August 16, 2026 The European Union (EU) issued two new rules for Google to force it to share search data and open up its Android operating system to rival AI companies. In the latest attempt t…