A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

The Federal Reserve kicked off a sweeping effort to overhaul its annual stress tests of large banks on Thursday, proposing to ...

The Post dubbed Musk’s disagreement with the president as their “highest-profile disagreement” since Trump named him the leader of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

The 48-page report, Death Sentences and Executions 2024, found that 1,518 executions were recorded in 2024 – the highest number since 2015 (at least 1,634) – with the majority in the Middle East.

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While that theory has largely been debunked, the numbers don't lie: The Dodgers do not have the highest payroll in the National League, let alone Major League Baseball. MLB insider Bob Nightengale ...

The number of state executions around the world has reached its highest level in ten years, a new report by Amnesty International has said. More than 1,500 recorded executions took place in 2024 ...

President Donald Trump holds up a report authored by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative that he cited as instrumental in his tariff policy.

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

LONDON (Reuters) - As a rout in global equity markets deepened on Monday amid tariff turmoil, the signs of stress across financial ... jumped to 60 on Monday - its highest level since a global ...

Wall Street's closely watched fear gauge, the VIX volatility index (.VIX), opens new tab, jumped to 60 on Monday - its highest level since a global market selloff in August. It closed above 45 on ...

The borough with the highest number of buses offences was Ealing, with 158 offences. This was followed by Lambeth with 125 offences, and Westminster at 120 offences. Overall bus crime levels were ...