With the fall season in full swing, the demand for pumpkins and seasonal gourds is on the rise. "People want pumpkins earlier than we had historically had them," Raghela Scavuzzo, the associate director of food systems development at the I...
NEW YORK -- Walmart is aiming to assuage customers' fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores. In a statement posted on the company's website, Walmart Inc.'s CEO John Furner vowed that the Bentonvil...
Consumer sentiment dropped in September close to the lowest level ever recorded in the 74-year history of the University of Michigan's monthly survey, fresh data on Friday showed. Shopper attitudes soured as a monthlong bout of inflation squeezed co...
A man was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, according to the Austin Police Department, prompting protests at the scene and backlash from local officials. He was delivering for DoorDash at the ti...
LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Practical Magic 2" conjured a box-office victory this weekend, opening atop the North American charts nearly three decades after its predecessor grew from a modest theatrical performer into a cult f...
Anthropic blocked potential biological weapons efforts, company says...
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it blocked several possible attempts to use its AI technology for research that could potentially support the development of biological weapons, according to a new report from the company. Anthropic, th...
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A symbol of Yellowstone National Park is now part of American history, thanks to a new U.S. Postal Service stamp featuring the bison....
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Saturday it expects every officer and agent in the field to be equipped with a body camera by the end of August, a rapid expansion that could provide an unprecedented visual record of the fe...
A Johns Hopkins University researcher has been released after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at Baltimore Washington International Airport earlier this week, her attorney told ABC News. According to a Department...
Oil prices on Wednesday climbed to their highest level in more than a month as fighting in the Middle East escalated and a top U.S. official voiced pessimism about peace talks. Brent crude futures, the benchmark index for worldwide tr...
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites. Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in...
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Rising temperatures are exacerbating threats to Australia's iconic koalas, an already vulnerable species, scientists warn. Koalas are increasingly facing heat stress and even death when temperatures exceed a certain threshold, according to a paper p...
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In northeast Wichita, Kansas, a chemicalthat is known to increase the cancer risk to humanshas seeped into the ground for decades, contaminating the groundwater widely unbeknownst to residents, according to local officials. Some 50 years...
NEW YORK -- When Tiffany Davis has a question about a symptom from the weight-loss injections she’s taking, she doesn’t call her doctor. She pulls out her phone and consults ChatGPT. “I’ll just basically let ChatGPT know my s...
Trump signs order to pay TSA workersHouse Republicans rejected the Senate’s plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and passed their stopgap bill. The new version must go back to the Senate, but senators have left town. Travele...