CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Eileen Gu isn’t trying to sound zen about all this. It just sort of comes out that way.There is something inherently dangerous about flinging yourself down the side of a mountain or flying hundreds of feet into the air over snow and ice, yet don’t describe wha...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina’s Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led to widespread burning up to three times more likely than in a...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — At least nine people died in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar after Tropical Cyclone Gezani made landfall, unleashing winds in excess of 195 kph (121 mph), authorities said Wednesday.Madagascar’s weather service issued red alerts for several regions, warn...

Madagascar’s national weather service has said that hurricane-force winds and heavy rains are expected to continue as Cyclone Gezani makes its way across the Indian Ocean island nation over the coming hours, as residents report widespread damage.Meteo Madagascar warned in an update at 1am local time on Wednesday (22:00 GMT) that “w...

ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) — A post-race interview with the bronze medal winner in the men’s Olympic biathlon competition on Tuesday took an unexpected turn when he revealed in a live broadcast that he had been unfaithful to his girlfriend.Sturla Holm Laegreid, one of Norway’s top biathletes, fi...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama circuit judge on Monday denied Alabama basketball player Charles Bediako’s motion for a preliminary injunction, ending the 7-foot center’s collegiate eligibility and his season with the Crimson Tide.County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Pruet cited that Bediako...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called on the nation’s highest court to lift a suspension on an economic emergency decree that would grant his government the authority to raise taxes without congressional approval.In a televised Cabinet meeting, Petro sai...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter, changing course before a meeting of its board, which has a majority of members picked by the coal-friendly Trump administration. In ne...

MILAN (AP) — U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn has smoothed out copyright concerns with the artist behind one of the pieces of her free skate music, and the Olympic team gold medalist thinks she may have struck up a new friendship with him because of it.Canadian artist Seb McKinnon, who produce...

HIIUMAA, Estonia (AP) — Temperatures in northern Europe have been so low that citizens of Estonia can now drive across a 20-kilometer (12 1/2-mile) stretch of frozen sea linking the country’s two main islands. The so-called “ice road” connecting the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, located i...

BLAGOEVGRAD, Bulgaria (AP) — Illuminated by the flickering glow of candlelight, priests approached the tables arranged in the shape of a cross in the middle of a church, enveloped in the heady scent of incense wafting from a censer. On the tables were jars of honey, waiting to be blessed on...

Fresh snow blanketed the ground and the temperature hovered around 20 degrees when Will Richardson stepped from his heated vehicle to walk onto Lake Forest Beach on Lake Tahoe’s east shore.Richardson, who was out despite battling a cold, has repeated the same early-January routine for years,...

TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — Hanadi Abu Zant has been unable to pay rent on her apartment in the occupied West Bank for almost a year after losing her permit to work inside Israel. When her landlord calls the police, she hides in a mosque.“My biggest fear is being kicked out of my home. Where...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn sustained a “complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly” after her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill, the skier said in a social media post late Monday.Vonn posted on Instagram about...

Svitlana Zinovieva wiped icy condensation from her living room window and pointed to a smokestack rising from a central boiler heating her apartment block. There, in the distance, she had seen a Russian missile streak in and explode a few days before.“It was like fireworks,” she said. “But I knew it would soon be cold.”Not long aft...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures accelerate the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it has sparked a boom in ships taking routes that were previously impassable because they were frozen.The increase in shipping traffic in the Arctic, which received increased attent...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is expected this week to revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, according to a White House official. The Environmental Protection Agency will is...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — There was only one person in the crowd at a luge event for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games Monday night who did not watch any of the runs.French artist Marc Ahr focused on the spectators to capture their reactions as their national teams triumphed or fell short,...

VERNON, France (AP) — In a tightly controlled manufacturing hangar west of Paris, workers put the finishing touches on an enormous silver-colored engine. In just a few days, a similar machine will help propel the most powerful version of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket yet, flying for the first tim...

A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and hurting winter tourism and recreation.Scientists say snow cover and snow depth are both at the lowest levels they’ve seen in decades...

MILAN (AP) — Much like the Olympic flame, there is another symbol of triumph and transcendence — far less known — that graces one host city after another: a one-of-a-kind, wooden cross. The Cross of the Athletes has arrived in Milan for the Winter Games and holds pride of place beside the ma...

Expanding natural gas infrastructure is a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s agenda to lower energy costs and boost the fossil fuel industry. He has referred to Democrats opposed to such projects as “ anti-energy zealots.”But political support for gas pipelines has run into powerful loc...

BINNABARI, India (AP) — The beekeepers rise early. They’ve come a long way to spend the winter months in the electric yellow mustard fields of Assam, and they have to make the trip worth it.At dawn, they eat a simple breakfast and won’t eat again until dusk. They’ll spend all day checking th...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the popular U.S. radio and TV preacher whose path to sainthood was derailed first by a lengthy court battle over his remains and then by concerns about how he handled clergy sexual misconduct cases....

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. health official urged people Sunday to get vaccinated against measles at a time with active outbreaks in several states and as the United States risks losing its measles elimination status.“Please get vaccinated,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers...

MILAN (AP) — Handle with care. That’s the message from gold medalist Breezy Johnson at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics after she and other athletes found their medals broke within hours.Olympic organizers are investigating with “maximum attention” after a spate of medals have fallen off th...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson won the top prize at the 78th Directors Guild Awards, putting the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker on track to potentially win his first Oscar.The DGA Awards, held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, are one of the most...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya, with cattle-keeping communities in the northeast the hardest hit, according to the United Nations and others.In recent weeks, images of emaciated livestock in the arid area near the Som...

Kroger named former Walmart executive Greg Foran as its chief executive officer on Monday, 11 months after the abrupt resignation of its previous CEO.Foran led Walmart’s U.S. division for six years before departing in 2019. While there, he introduced online ordering and pickup, and accelerat...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Olympic fans came to Cortina with heavy winter coats and gloves. Those coats were unzipped Sunday and gloves pocketed as snow melted from rooftops — signs of a warming world. “I definitely thought we’d be wearing all the layers,” said Jay Tucker, who came from...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it’s set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable.The increase in marine Arctic traffic, which received increased attention as President Donal...

The sun hung low when Bad Bunny emerged in Puerto Rico’s sugar cane fields during his halftime show, surrounded by jíbaros in pavas (rural farmers in traditional straw hats), viejitos playing dominos (an affectionate term for older men) and a piragua stand (shaved ice) — undeniable symbols o...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Stars have been front-and-center at Super Bowl 60, from Chris Pratt and Jon Bon Jovi introducing the teams to a series of soaring pre-game performances.Highlights from Levi’s Stadium include Blue Ivy Carter leaping in an end zone before the game and Green Day deliv...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn knows the Olympic downhill course better than anyone.She’s won a record 12 World Cup races on the Olympia delle Tofane track — split evenly between six downhills and six super-Gs — and has a total of 20 podium results there, stretching back to her...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood largely ceded attention to football over a slow box-office weekend, with the survival thriller “Send Help” repeating as No. 1 in ticket sales and the Melania Trump documentary “Melania” falling sharply in its second weekend. Super Bowl weekend is typically one of th...

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people.But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused...

MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned recent anti-Olympics protests in Milan and alleged sabotage of train infrastructure, calling those responsible “enemies of Italy and Italians” early Sunday.The protesters “demonstrate ‘against the Olympics,’ causing these images to end up...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Seeing if Lindsey Vonn can contend for a medal in the Olympic downhill at age 41 with a titanium replacement in her right knee to cap her comeback after nearly six years of retirement was already going to be one of the highlights of the Milan Cortina Olympics....

MILAN (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance sat with influencer and boxer Jake Paul as they watched the U.S. women’s hockey team ease to a 5-0 win over Finland at the Winter Olympics on Saturday.Vance and his family entered during the intermission at the end of the first period, with the U.S....

MILAN (AP) — Italian police fired tear gas and a water cannon at dozens of protesters who threw firecrackers and tried to access a highway near a Winter Olympics venue on Saturday.The brief confrontation came at the end of a peaceful march by thousands against the environmental impact of the...

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Swiss racer Franjo von Allmen brought home the first gold medal at the Milan Cortina Games by winning the downhill on Saturday. It’s his first Olympic crown in his very first Olympic race.Not so long ago, it wasn’t clear if there would be anymore “firsts” for him in ski...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — For one month starting on Saturday, Olympic spectators keen for a side trip to a UNESCO World Heritage Site can use Uber to reserve a ride on a snowmobile along the snow-covered road to the base of the Three Peaks of Lavaredo.The dramatic, jagged limestone pin...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — For weeks, popular Kenyan podcaster and radio presenter Francis Kibe Njeri has used his social media platforms to spotlight a problem he says many electric motorcycle riders face but few companies in the industry acknowledge: batteries unable to be swapped across networ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reapproved the weed killer dicamba for use on genetically modified soybeans and cotton, a pesticide that has raised widespread concern over its tendency to drift and destroy nearby crops.The agency said dicamba was critical for...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Nearly two weeks after an ice storm knocked out power to her home, Barbara Bishop still finds herself trying to flip the lights on and looking in her fridge for food that has since spoiled.Bishop, 79, and her 85-year-old husband, George Bishop, live in a rural area near...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that its use of emergency orders to keep aging coal-fired plants operating helped prevent a major blackout from power shortages during the brutally frigid weather that has gripped most of America for the past two weeks.Scattered outages...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday reopening a huge swath of protected sea in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing.Trump said the order would reestablish fishing in Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the New England...

Nevada fell well short of its greenhouse gas emission-cutting goals in 2025, and it’s poised to be much further behind when the bar raises again in 2030. According to the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP), the state’s carbon emissions are projected to stay nearly the same...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Repairs on a pipe rupture that has sent sewage flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington, D.C., will take weeks more to repair because of an unexpected blockage, according to the local water authority.In a release posted on its website Thursday, DC Water, which...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will resume staff cuts that were briefly paused during January’s severe winter storm, according to two FEMA managers, stoking concern across the agency over its ability to address disasters with fewer workers.FEMA at the start of January abruptly stopp...

MIAMI (AP) — Winged babies shooting heart-shaped arrows might get most of the credit on Valentine’s Day, but the real magic behind millions of romantic bouquets happens in a cargo warehouse at a South Florida airport.Agricultural specialists at Miami International Airport will process about...

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota reported a 43% drop in quarterly profit on Friday and announced that its chief financial officer, Kenta Kon, will become its new chief executive and president.Kon, a Toyota veteran, will replace Koji Sato in both roles in April. Shareholder approval is expected in June.“T...

Three Democratic senators have accused the credit-rating company Equifax of price gouging states for a service many will use to comply with the new work requirements for Medicaid and food assistance passed by Republicans in Congress last year.In a letter to the company’s chief executive, Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachus...

A daring attempt to study Antarctica’s fast-melting Thwaites Glacier collapsed over the weekend after the scientists’ instruments became entombed within the half-mile-thick ice.A team of British and South Korean researchers was trying to install instruments beneath the immense glacier, where they would collect data, the...

A week before the 2024 election, Idaho’s largest electric utility struck a 35-year deal to buy power from a wind farm under development in Wyoming.The Jackalope Wind project would span an area the size of Chicago, with hundreds of wind turbines generating clean electricity by 2027.But the wind farm soon became a casualty of P...

For the first time, two major medical groups have backed limitations on gender-related surgical treatments for minors in the United States.The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest organization representing doctors, on Wednesday said these procedures generally should be deferred until patients reach adulthood. Th...

President Trump announced the debut of a website on Thursday night to help Americans use their own money to buy prescription drugs.The government website, TrumpRx.gov, will not sell medications. Instead, it provides an entry point for consumers to search for their drugs and then buy them elsewhere, either from pharmacies or website...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday announced the Food and Drug Administration was relaxing its enforcement of federal food additive regulations, making it easier for manufacturers to claim that they are not using artificial dyes in their products.The F.D.A. has barred food makers from advertising that products conta...

The deadline has been looming over Washington and Moscow for years.On Thursday, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia expired. For the first time since 1972, it leaves both superpowers with no limits on the size or structure of their arsenals, at the very moment both are planning new generations...

The government website TrumpRx.gov gives Americans a new option for getting their medications. But it also adds to the complexity of a system that can make it extraordinarily difficult for people to compare prices and figure out where to find the least expensive drug.Introduced on Thursday, the website does not sell prescription dr...

Members of the federal vaccine panel chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are setting their sights on the next targets: the mRNA Covid shots, and vaccines offered to pregnant women.The panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, already has imposed some limits on access to Covid vaccines and has resc...

It’s not every day that one gets to hold a chunk of hide from an extinct woolly rhinoceros in their hands.“I don’t think I will ever forget that,” said Sólveig Guðjónsdóttir, who studied the specimen in 2022 and 2023 while she was a graduate student in evolutionary genomics at Stockh...

As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, frequently finds herself needing to hold many objects at once.“I constantly have tons of things under my arms and in my fingers,” she said, adding: “I use my entire body to grasp things.”In these situations, Dr. Bi...

Many of the snazziest decorations in the animal kingdom are charm offensives, put on by creatures trying to mate.While some of these adornments, like a peacock’s tail feathers or a moose’s antlers, are obvious even to humans, others can be perceived only with sensory capabilities that we don’t have.A new study, pu...

A federal judge in Texas has struck down a law barring state agencies from investing in firms accused of boycotting fossil fuel companies. The 2021 law had become a model for similar measures around the country, as part of a larger push against the use of environmental principles in investing.Judge Alan D. Albright of the U.S. Dist...

An outpouring of magma isn’t the biggest risk to people downhill from Mount Rainier in Washington. The active volcano’s greatest danger comes from lahars — amalgams of mud, rock and water that are as dense as wet concrete.Over the past several thousand years at least nine large lahars have barreled down the steep...

NASA announced on Tuesday that it would not try to launch astronauts on an around-the-moon trip until at least March. The decision was made after the agency was unable to complete a countdown rehearsal that started on Saturday.NASA officials had hoped that the Artemis II mission, which would be the first time humans leave low-Earth...

The patients were old — more than 2,200 years old. But the medical experts were determined to give them a cutting-edge 21st-century exam.First upwas Nes-Hor, a priest in the Temple of Min, who died circa 190 B.C.E. and whose body was wrapped in a linen shroud that had blackened over the centuries. Then came Nes-Min, circa 330...

The small, stubby New Shepard rocket from the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos has sent celebrities like William Shatner, Michael Strahan and Katy Perry to the edge of space.Now, it won’t be going anywhere for a while.The company, Blue Origin, announced on Friday that it was pausing launches of New Shepard for at least tw...

While record snowfall and single-digit temperatures pummel much of the United States, an extreme snow drought and unusually warm weather are keeping skiers off the mountains, snowmobilers off the trails and water out of the rivers across much of the West.In many places famed for deep natural snow, including Park City, Utah; Vail, C...

Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ve heard a lot about snow lately. Today we’ll find out about the rock salt that’s crunching underfoot. We’ll also get details on a guilty plea by a public defender who was accused of stealing public funds to pay for vacations and teeth whitening.ImageCredit...Graham Dic...

The ground has been restless in this California community 35 miles east of San Francisco. Since late last year, dozens of earthquakes have rumbled through San Ramon and its tidy neighborhoods and cul-de-sacs, disrupting the suburban calm.They have been mostly quick, and relatively weak, rumbles occurring here and there, with a few...

Two weeks of heavy snowfall has wreaked havoc in Japan, killing at least 30 people and injuring at least 200 others, according to Japan’s government, with local officials warning that the toll could rise.Japan is known for wintry deluges, especially along the western coast and in northern prefectures. But especially heavy sno...

In late December, researchers were descending a remotely operated vehicle in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina when, at a depth of roughly 800 feet, the control room fell silent. On the screens, a jellyfish appeared. But it was no ordinary sighting: It was a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen in the world’s se...

If only this were a game of musical chairs.But in the competition for curbside parking after a blizzard, the rules aren’t as clearly defined, occasionally leading those who are left circling the block without a space to retaliate against the “winners.”After the sprawling snowstorm last month, a brawl over a parkin...

Two rescues and three deaths last week in the United States underscore the dangers of walking on thin ice.Though temperatures are below freezing in many parts of the country, the water in ponds, lakes and rivers has to turn into an ice block four inches thick before most people can safely walk across, according to scientists.The ge...

Last month’s snow remains stubbornly frozen in gutter-side heaps across New York City, and with temperatures set to plunge again, it’s likely to remain there for a while.A fresh dusting of snow this weekend could coat the grime-encrusted piles, but the real story is the biting cold trailing behind it, with forecasters warning that...