October has lived up to its reputation as the month when crashes occur. Except the crash this time was in bitcoin BTCUSD rather than the stock market. At one point this past Sunday, bitcoin was 15.4% ...

Pope Leo XIV wasn't going to let a Chicago Cubs fan troll him in Vatican City. Alberto Pizzoli / Getty Images Even the grandeur of the papacy apparently hasn’t been enough to prevent Pope Leo XIV from ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. On the ...

Diane Keaton’s longtime pal Carole Bayer Sager was shocked by how frail the actress looked the last time they saw each other. “I saw her two or three weeks ago,” the songwriter told People. “She had ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...

Paul Greengrass can direct this sort of ripped-from-the-headlines drama with one hand tied behind his back; he’s proved time and again that he’s capable of wringing real emotion out of human chaos.

The 2025 edition of Time’s annual “best inventions” list saw the magazine expand the docket from 200 to 300 innovations—more than 10% of which comprise medical devices, pharmaceuticals and other novel ...

“Prepare for war… because we love peace,” declared Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at an extraordinary summons of senior military leaders in Virginia, echoing Ancient Rome’s maxim si vis pacem, para ...

Heimdall Power today announced that its flagship innovation, the Neuron ™, has been named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025, recognized for redefining how the world’s power grids are monitored, ...