Although the coach and athletic department said the LSU women's basketball team didn't do anything different before Monday's high-profile game, Louisiana's governor has called for punishing players who aren't on the court when the national anthem is played. Republican Gov. Jeff Landry posted on X that he respects the team's......

A judge Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's bid to delay his April 15 hush-money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan deemed the former president's request untimely, ruling that his lawyers had myriad......

Three and a half decades ago, British physicist John Latham raised the wild idea of injecting droplets of seawater into clouds to brighten them, increasing their reflection of solar radiation and thereby cooling the planet. He suggested 1,000 unmanned vessels could sail the oceans, spraying water into the air.......

Stocks closed mostly higher Wednesday as Wall Street steadied itself following its worst day in weeks. The S&P 500 rose 5.68 points, or 0.1%, to 5,211.49, clawing back a bit of its loss from the prior day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 43.10 points,......

The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question Tuesday night when residents of Jackson County, Missouri, resoundingly voted down a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown ballpark along with major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium. Royals owner John Sherman......

Emailing an employee during their time off could become punishable by law in California, the first state in the US weighing employees' " right to disconnect ." Such laws are already on the books in 13 countries and just over the US-Canada border in Ontario. California could potentially become the first US......

Lizzo on Tuesday clarified that her "I QUIT" declaration wasn't a reference to the music industry or social media, where she wrote those two words. Rather, "When I say 'I quit', I mean I quit giving any negative energy attention," she says in a follow-up video posted to Instagram . Lizzo......

John McCain's daughter isn't happy about an upcoming musical comedy that depicts the late senator as a ghost haunting Donald Trump's brain. "This is trash," Meghan McCain said in a post on X Tuesday night, describing the Off-Broadway production as "nothing more than a gross cash grab by mediocre desperate......

The New York City Marathon is the world's largest, with 51,402 finishers in 2023 . And since 1988, runners have kicked off their 26.2 miles in the same place: the upper and lower decks of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The bridge is shuttered for hours to vehicular traffic as a......

Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor's long fight to preserve the practice. The Transportation Department's Federal Railroad Administration released the details of the rule Tuesday morning after working on......

A 2-pound object that fell from way up yonder crashed the roof of a home in Naples, Florida, and the best bet is that it came from the International Space Station. The cylindrical object slammed through the roof of Alejandro Otero's home about 2:30pm March 8, reports WINK News......

Scientists in search of insects can spend 1,000 hours checking roughly 10,000 trees across 40 acres. Or, with a more convenient approach, they can do the same in about an hour. More and more, researchers are turning to remote sensing technology to ease the burden of searching landscapes......

The bad news for underperforming employees at consulting giant McKinsey & Co. is that their days are numbered at the firm. The good news is that the company isn't exactly in a hurry to rush them out the door. The details: An offer: Over the weekend, the UK Times reported......

President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed Taiwan, artificial intelligence, and security issues Tuesday in a call meant to demonstrate a return to regular leader-to-leader dialogue between the two powers, per the AP . The call—the leaders' first conversation since their November summit in California—was seen as more......

An Alabama woman is in custody after cops found more than 4 pounds of cocaine in the backpack of a 3-year-old in her home, among other discoveries. Per KTLA , deputies with the Mobile County Sheriff's Office got a tip that 35-year-old Tierra Tocorra Hill was stashing illegal drugs in her......

Whales are people, too, according to the Indigenous leaders of New Zealand, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands, who've acted to bestow personhood on whales. New Zealand's Maori and other Indigenous groups from Polynesia signed a treaty that recognizes all whales as legal persons as part of an effort to seek......

Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series SCTV , has died at age 82. His daughter Gudrun said Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness, per the AP . Flaherty, who was born in Pittsburgh, spent seven years at The Second City in Chicago before moving north of......

A fire at an Istanbul nightclub that was closed for renovations killed at least 29 people on Tuesday, reports the AP . At least six people, including managers of the club, were detained for questioning after the fire at the Masquerade club. Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said the venue had not obtained......

Stocks slipped from their record heights Monday after a surprisingly strong report on US manufacturing raised worries about how much interest rates could ease this year. The S&P 500 fell 10.58 points, or 0.2%, to 5,243.77, coming off an all-time high and its latest winning month.......

Last year, the US government declared that it could find no evidence linking a foreign adversary to the mysterious ailment striking diplomats known as Havana Syndrome . A joint investigation by the Insider , CBS News , and the German outlet Der Spiegel begs to differ and points the finger at Russia: The......