A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate is attempting to play chess nonstop for 58 hours in New York City�s Times Square to break the global record for the longest chess marathon. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa. He is playing against Shawn Martinez, an American chess […]

Apple said it had removed Meta�s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from the App Store in China to comply with orders from Chinese authorities. The apps were removed from the store on Friday after Chinese officials cited unspecified national security concerns. Their removal comes amid elevated tensions between the U.S. and […]

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated two forever chemicals that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, an action intended to ensure quicker cleanup

Two men have been detained in Poland on suspicion that they attacked Russian activist Leonid Volkov � an ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny � on the orders of foreign intelligence services, officials said Friday. Volkov was attacked on March 12 outside his home in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, where he lives in […]

Sometime in the next few days or even hours, the �miners� who chisel bitcoins out of complex mathematics are going to take a 50% pay cut � effectively slicing new production of the world�s largest cryptocurrency in half. That could have a lot of implications, from the price of the asset to the bitcoin miners […]

The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days if Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That’s because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and

Ukraine�s air force claimed Friday it shot down a Russian strategic bomber, but Moscow officials said the plane crashed in a sparsely populated area due to a malfunction after a combat mission. Neither claim could be independently verified. Previous Ukrainian claims of shooting down Russian warplanes during their more than two-year war have met with […]

The United States and its allies are discussing options �both inside and outside the U.N. system� to create a new mechanism for monitoring North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, the American ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday. Russia last month vetoed a U.N. resolution in a move that effectively abolished monitoring by U.N. […]

Prospective homebuyers are facing higher costs to finance a home with the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate moving above 7% this week to its highest level in nearly five months.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has secured a place on the ballot in the battleground state of Michigan, state officials confirmed Thursday, elevating his potential to affect the

Artificial intelligence is helping decide which Americans get the job interview, the apartment, even medical care, but the first major proposals to reign in bias in AI decision making are

Legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn�t sell its stake won a major boost late Wednesday when House Republican leaders included it in a package of bills that would send aid to Ukraine and Israel. The bill could be law as soon as next week if Congress moves quickly. […]